Scarlet Pimpernel - The Scarlet Pimpernel Lyrics

Broadway 1997
Scarlet Pimpernel the Musical - The Scarlet Pimpernel Lyrics


PERCY:
Lud love me such conjecturing
Could drive a man insane!
And I'm the one to set
This gossip quite to rest
The Pimpernel is me!

MARGUERITE:
Indeed, and I'm the queen of Spain!

ARMAND:
The Pimpernel is nothing
But a nosy pest!

A WOMAN:
No, the vicar says the Pimpernel's
A bishop in disguise

MARIE:
Who gives absolution
Night and day!

A MANSERVANT:
Stuff and nonsense! Don't you know
He's a maharajah from Bombay?

A WOMAN:
They say he has enormous feet!

A MANSERVANT:
And that he tends to overeat!

A WOMAN:
I've heard he's fussy with his food

LADY LLEWELLYN:
And eats his breakfast in the nude!

WOMEN
Is he robust
Or very pale?
At least we know he's male!
Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?

A MAID:
Me sister says his breath
Is sweeter than an Irish rose!

MAIDS:
I'm sure I'd fall in love
If he would cross my path!

A MANSERVANT:
La, yes if you could overlook
The warts upon his nose

A MANSERVANT:
And possibly persuade him
He should take a bath!

A WOMAN:
Rumor has it he's Castilian!

A WOMAN:
He's a reckless buccaneer!

LADY LLEWELLYN
And I hear he carries sev'ral ... whips ...

PERCY, spoken:
Several ... whips?!

ARMAND:
He's a sultan from Kabul

MARIE:
With women at his fingertips!

A WOMAN:
They say he's nearly eight feet tall!

A WOMAN:
And yet quite graceful -

A MANSERVANT:
Folderol!

A MANSERVANT:
I'm told he waddles when he walks

MENSERVANTS:
And often twitches when he talks!

A MANSERVANT:
Is he a dolt?

PERCY:
He's very deep!

ALL:
Oh, England's losing sleep!

PERCY:
Who is this blasted Pimpernel?

A MANSERVANT:
The butcher in the village
Claims he saw the man last week

PERCY, spoken:
Where?

A MANSERVANT:
Galloping his camel 'cross the moor!

A WOMAN:
He's been seen

A MANSERVANT:
Wearing full Blakeney green!

PERCY:
I've told you all before!
The fella's me!

A MANSERVANT:
It's George the Third!

A MANSERVANT:
Perhaps a convict run amok?

A MANSERVANT:
This Pimpernel could be most any sod!

PERCY, spoken:
How dare you?

A WOMAN:
Bite your tongue
He is dashing and young!

WOMEN:
The Pimpernel's a god!
And he'll find me!
And he'll wake me!
And he'll take me

LADY LLEWELLYN:
Down on a haystack

WOMEN:
He'll face me

MEN:
Then at last you could tell
If he's a hero or a monk
A fiddling Nero or a drunk!
Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?

PERCY, spoken:
It's me, it's me!

A MAN:
I'm sure he's flatulent and crass!

MEN:
Hear, hear! The man's a horse's ass!

WOMEN:
No, no! He's neighborly and kind

LADY LLEWELLYN:
But quite erotically inclined ...

ALL:
Whatever guise he may employ
He's England's pride and joy!
This plucky non-pareil!

PERCY:
This lucky bloody swell!

ALL:
Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?

[Thanks to Anne for corrections]


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Scarlet Pimpernel the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Madame Guillotine
Believe
Vivez
Prayer
Into The Fire
Falcon In The Dive
When I Look At You
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Where's The Girl
When I Look At You (reprise)
The Creation Of Man
The Riddle
They Seek Him Here
Only Love
She Was There
Storybook
Where's The Girl (reprise)
Lullaby
You Are My Home
Believe (reprise)
Into The Fire (reprise)