Chess - 1956 – Budapest is Rising Lyrics

1988 Broadway
Chess the Musical - 1956 – Budapest is Rising Lyrics


FLORENCE:
You want to lose your only friend?
Well, keep it up, you're doing fine
Why this humiliation?
Why treat me like a fool?
I've taken shit for seven years
And I won't take it anymore

FREDDIE:
I'm only teasing Soviets
With gentle bonhomie
And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me

FLORENCE:
There's a time and there's a place

FREDDIE: (spoken)
Well, how about here and now,
Are you for me or are you for them?

FLORENCE:
There's a time and there's a place...

SOLOISTS:
1956 - Budapest is rising
1956 - Budapest is rising

FREDDIE:
I'd have thought you'd support
Any attack on these people

SOLOISTS:
1956 - Budapest is rising

FREDDIE:
On the people who ran
Mindlessly over your childhood
Don't let them fool you
For 30 years on
They're the same

SOLOISTS:
1956 - Budapest is fighting
1956 - Budapest is falling

FREDDIE:
They see chess as a war
Playing with pawns just like Poland

SOLOISTS:
1956 - Budapest is dying

FREDDIE:
If you walk out on me
You're really betraying your father
Were he alive now he'd surely
Be dying of shame

FLORENCE:
You know that there's nothing I've done
That he'd be ashamed of
In my whole life!
Why'd you have to do this to me?

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Chess the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
The Story of Chess
Merano
Commie Newspapers
Press Conference
Anatoly & Molokov
Where I Want to Be
Diplomats
The Arbiter
Hymn to Chess
Merchandisers
The Arbiter (Reprise)
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility)
Florence and Molokov
1956 – Budapest is Rising
Nobody's Side
Mountain Duet
Florence Quits
Pity the Child
Embassy Lament
Heaven Help My Heart
Anatoly and the Press
Anthem
One Night in Bangkok
One More Opponent
You and I
The Soviet Machine
The Interview
Someone Else's Story
The Deal
I Know Him So Well
Talking Chess
Endgame
You and I (Reprise)
Anthem (Reprise)