Chess - Florence and Molokov Lyrics |
1988 Broadway Chess the Musical - Florence and Molokov Lyrics
MOLOKOV: (spoken) The game is greater than its players, Miss Vassy. How true
(sung) I don't know how you can allow This harm to be done to chess And how this baby of yours Can be persuaded back to the game
FLORENCE: (spoken) Easy. You stop playing politics and you start playing chess
(sung) I don't know how You have the gall to Criticize us When it is all too Obvious this is what you wanted We get the blame
(spoken) Your man, following orders, was planning some sort of bust-up from the word go
MOLOKOV: You really are mad He has no orders Now let me put my cards Upon your table-- If he is aggrieved Then who can blame him? He is up against a man Who's less than stable
FLORENCE: Who rocked his chair Throughout the match then? Who sniffed and coughed Began to scratch, then Played with his flag And tapped his fingers Then took a walk?
(spoken) Your precious boy!
(sung) Listen, you plutocratic throwback You and your cronies wanna go back Home to your Dachas, not the salt mines?
(spoken) We better talk!
MOLOKOV: (spoken) I wish, Florienz--
FLORENCE: (spoken) Florence!
MOLOKOV: (spoken) Florence, you would refrain from cheap political jibe at a time when cooperation between us is vital. Besides, I would have thought you'd be reluctant to criticize fellow Eastern European
FLORENCE: (spoken) Fellow Eastern Europeans! I was born a Hungarian. Do you remember Hungary? I wish I could. I was only five when you bastards moved in. I have no memory of my homeland-- my mother, my father, my people -- all taken from me by you!
(sung) And you call yourself A fellow Eastern European!
MOLOKOV: Come now, Miss Vassy We're digressing Back to the point Let's start addressing All our attention To the World Chess Championship
FLORENCE: (spoken) Cut the crap! They have to meet. If you deliver Anatoly, I will deliver Freddie, at the Merano Mountain Inn, famous for its peace and tranquility. That's where I'll do the business
MOLOKOV: (spoken) We'll do the business
FLORENCE: (spoken) I'll do the business
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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)
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