Lizzie Borden - Forty Whacks (Prologue) Lyrics

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Lizzie Borden the Musical - Forty Whacks (Prologue) Lyrics

ENSEMBLE
Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
Gave her father forty-one

ALICE (spoken)
I am Alice Russel.
I have lived in Fall River a good many years.
All that time the Bordens have occupied the house next door.
I exchanged calls with Miss Lizzie Borden regularly.
She always received me upstairs

BRIDGET (spoken)
The name's Bridget Sullivan.
I was sometimes called "Maggie" by Miss Emma and Miss Lizzie,
It bein' the name of the previous girl.
I came to Fall River four years ago,
Have worked for the Bordens ever since

EMMA (spoken)
My full name is Emma L. Borden. The L is for Lenora.
I am the sister of Miss Lizzie Borden.
I was just a trifle over fourteen
When my father married for the second time,
And I remember my mother very well

LIZZIE (spoken)
My name is is Lizzie Andrew Borden. Not Elizabeth, Lizzie.
Andrew -- after my father I was so christened.
I am innocent.
I leave it to my council to speak for me


Other Songs: Lizzie Borden Musical Songs Lyrics
Forty Whacks (Prologue) Lizzie Borden the musical

Lizzie Borden the Musical Lyrics

Forty Whacks (Prologue)
The House of Borden
This is Not Love
I Gotta Get Out of Here
If You Knew
The Soul of the White Bird
Maybe Someday
Sweet Little Sister
Shattercane and Velvetgrass
Will You Stay
Why Are All These Heads Off
Mercury Rising
Somebody Will Do Something
Forty Whacks (reprise)
The Fall of the House of Borden
What the F*ck Now, Lizzie?!
Burn the Old Thing Up
Questions Questions
Will You Lie
Watchmen for the Morning
Maybe Someday (reprise)/ Thirteen Days in Taunton
Into Your Wildest Dreams