Broadway Musical Camelot the Musical - Fie on Goodness Lyrics
Music by Ken Darby, Frederick Loewe Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
CHORUS Fie on goodness, fie Fie on goodness, fie Eight years of kindness to your neighbor Making sure that the meek are treated well Eight years of philanthropic labor Derry down dell Damn, but it's hell Oh, fie on goodness, fie Fie, fie, fie
It's been depressing all the way (derry down, derry down) And getting glummer every day (derry down, derry down)
KNIGHT 1 Ah, but to burn a little town or slay a dozen men Anything to laugh again
ALL Oh, fie on goodness, fie Fie, fie, fie, fie, fie
KNIGHT 1 When I think of the rollicking pleasures that earlier filled my life Lolly lo, lolly lo Like the time I beheaded a man who was beating his naked wife
ALL Lolly lo, lolly lo
KNIGHT 1 I can still hear his widow say Never moving from where she lay "Tell me what can I do, I beg, sir, of you Your kindness to repay"
ALL Fie on goodness, fie Fie on goodness, fie
KNIGHT 2 Lechery and vice have been arrested
KNIGHT 3 Arrested!
KNIGHT 2 Not a maiden is evermore in threat Virgins may wander unmolested
KNIGHT 4 Unmolested!
ALL Lolly lo let Gad, it's a sweat Oh, fie on goodness, fie Fie, fie, fie, fie, fie
KNIGHT 5 How we roared and brawled in Scotland Not a law was e'er obeyed And when wooing called in Scotland We'd grab any pasing maid Ah, my heart is still in Scotland Where the lasses woo the best On some bonny hill in Scotland Stroking someone's bonny...
CHORUS Fie on Scotland, fie Fie on Scotland, fie
No one repents for any sin now Every soul is immaculate and trim
SOME KNIGHTS Immaculate!
CHORUS No one is covered with chagrin now Lolly lo lim Gad, but it's grim Oh, fie on goodness, fie Fie, fie, fie
There's not a folly to deplore Derry down, derry down Confession Sunday is a bore Derry down, derry down
KNIGHT 1 Ah, but to spend a tortured evening staring at the floor Guilty and alive once more
CHORUS Oh, fie on virtue, fie Fie on mercy, fie Fie on justice Fie on goodness
Fie, fie, fie, fie, fie
Other Songs: Camelot the Musical Lyrics
Camelot the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight The Simple Joys of Maidenhood Camelot Follow Me C'est Moi The Lusty Month of May Then You May Take Me to the Fair How to Handle a Woman Before I Gaze at You Again If Ever I Would Leave You The Seven Deadly Virtues What Do the Simple Folk Do? Fie on Goodness I Loved You Once in Silence Guenevere Finale (Camelot Reprise)
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