ACT TWO
Scene 1
"Dances and Marches"
RINGMASTER
Versailles the leaves fall
It's that time of the year
Her Majesty is bored with all
This endless calling for reform
But the sound of young men marching
Is like music to her ear
The sound of young men marching
Is like music to her ear
But she dreams of young men dancing
QUEEN
Dancing, dancing...
RINGMASTER
And the dream of young men dancing
Hangs like birdsong in the air
Now Hear Ye!
Her Majesty invites the regiments
To a Grand Ball
Versailles in October
The Queen is having a fling
She invites all the regiments
Loyal to the King
Wining and dining and making eyes at them all
Smiling in the limelight
The Queen is having a ball
OFFICER
The Queen is smiling
The Queen is laughing
She makes eyes at one and all
CHORUS
She’s having a ball
RINGMASTER
Flushed with wine Marie Antoinette
Casts down her red, white and blue rosette
An impetuous and dangerous vignette
OFFICER
And then with her harming little shoe
She grinds the precious symbol underfoot
what a lark, what a hoot
The regiments all follow suit
The regiments
CHORUS
The regiments
OFFICER
The regiments
CHORUS
The regiments
OFFICER & CHORUS
The regiments all follow suit
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Red, white and blue and they all follow suit
CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Red, white and blue and they all follow suit
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
In Paris there is nothing to eat
CHORUS
Not a crust, not a crumb
Not a grain of wheat
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
They think that starving may weaken the man in the street
CHORUS
Not a chance, they're used to the heat
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
In Versailles they drink wine and dine on freshly baked bread
CHORUS
The peacock sprawls upon his bed
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
We choke on the bones of swallowed pride instead
CHORUS
Soon they'll see what a feast they've made
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
A bitter feast
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHORUS
For the Parisians
CHORUS
...for the Parisians
RINGMASTER
These hags, these shrews, these courtesans
These animals we call women
Have marched hear through the pouring rain
TO bring the baker home again
CHORUS
Louis protests; he cries
KING
Veto, veto! I'll give you all bread if you just let me go!
RINGMASTER
These fishwives with their babies, these animals called ladies
Will carry back home to Paris
The King, The Queen, and The Dauphin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Versailles has loomed to the regiments' final bow
CHORUS
Versailles bloomed
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
All fawning before
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
The Austrian cow!
CHORUS
Fawning on bended knee
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The party's over
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Take down the marquee
CHORUS
Hang up your dancing shoes in the hanging tree
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
We'll take the baker back to Paris
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Back to Paris
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
He'll make bread for the prince we decree
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, CHILDREN'S CHORUS, & FEMALE CHORUS
The shrews, the hags and the courtesans
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
The animals we call women
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, CHILDREN'S CHORUS, & FEMALE CHORUS
Will take back the King to Paris
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
The crowd now seven thousand strong
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
Bore the royal coach along
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
With trophies raised on pikes above
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
The guardsman’s heads they had cut off
TROUBLEMAKER
Adieu Versailles
MALE CHORUS
It rains, it pours, the crowd roars
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Bonjour Paris
CHORUS
Adieu Versailles
COMPANY
Bonjour Paris, adieu Versailles
Scene 2
"The Letter"
RINGMASTER
Imprisoned in the Tuilaries
The King makes locks
To the sound of the ticking clocks
And the rain falling on his window pane
Makes him think of his cousin Bourbon
Safe in his castle in Spain
KING
My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain
This letter I entrust to a courier faithful and sure
Is to calm your fears and tell you cousin dear
My heart is pure
This red cap I wear,
These lies they've made me swear
Are repugnant to my soul
My very bones cry out in pain
Cousin Bourbon of Spain
You know my feelings well
You've heard what I've had to say
But now all my beliefs
Have been snatched by these thieves
And cruelly torn away
But none of the scum who run through the streets
Taking law from a bottle of wine
Could presume to assume the fealty due
To me or to you from your subjects or Mine
My dear cousin Bourbon n of Spain
Let's make a pact, let's campaign
Let us whip back to their kennels again
These dogs who speak of virtue
Help me, cousin
Help me cousin Bourbon of Spain
RINGMASTER
The ship of state is all at sea
The King is confused
'Tis hard enough to place one foot before the last
To tread a path preordained by a law divine
But to pad all aimless on a shifting sea
Each man an island free to choose his fate
God's death; what dizzy, giddy, fall from grace...
Commerce, that barometer of faith
Tolls warning of the coming storm
No coffee in the marketplace
No peace on earth for rich or poor
Scene 3
"Silver, Sugar and Indigo"
TROUBLEMAKER
How can you sleep?
How can you think?
How can you live with no coffee to drink?
You'd better pray you don't have a sweet tooth
The price of sugar is through the roof
Robespierre, Brissot and Concordant all agree
We must set the blackbird free
But sugar and silver and indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
To the Windward Isles
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
It comes today
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
The wind of change blows this way
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Blows this way
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
In Sante Domingo and elsewhere
To slaves of sugar and despair
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
Bring freedom to the
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Colonies
Act on principle
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
Equality, Fraternity and
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Liberty
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
Are
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Not just words after all
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
But
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Sugar is sweet
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
And
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Coffee is strong
Hope goes down with the sun
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
And REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
The sun goes down behind
CONDORCET & MARIE MARIANNE
Mountains of silver
Valleys of sugar
And shiploads of indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
MARIE MARIANNE
So come ye ships
Across the sea
Let's case into the deep
This shame and misery
In Paris they condemn our rage
Condorcet stands his ground and says:
CONDORCET
My friends if we believe in freedom
Then we must unlock this cage
COMPANY
Vive Condorcet, hear him scold them,
The frigid reactionary old men
Good God above it's over
Enough is enough
Enough, enough, enough
To the Windward Isles
Revolution has arrived
They will only free us when
They need us to fight for them
CONDORCET & MARIE MARIANNE
Cast into the deep sea
This shame and this misery
Silver, sugar and indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
CHORUS
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
COMPANY
"Idiot!"
Scene 4
"The Papal Edict"
RINGMASTER
Trade wings, buffeting the sweet molasses
Smoke of burning cane
Push, swelling East the spreading ripples of unrest,
Back to Europe and the rain
The Holy See safe on Tiber's shore
Surveys the flotsam on the tide
Ignores the cries of drowning men and
Passes on the other side
TROUBLEMAKER
In Paris there's a rumble under the ground
It's the sound of the printing press
And like a volcano when it blows
It spews out ideas like confetti, like snow
BOY
Read all about it!
Hold the front page!
The street's a theatre
Each café...
CHORUS & CHILDREN
A stage!
RINGMASTER
But under every café awning
There appears this papal warning
TROUBLEMAKER
His Holiness the Pope, I fear
Believes the Rights of Man to be a bad idea
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The Pope does not want the rights of Man
COMPANY
The Pope does not want the rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He finds them too profane
COMPANY
He finds them too profane
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
When a man bites the apple
COMPANY
When a man bites the apple
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He gets a taste for liberty
COMPANY
He gets a taste for liberty
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He gets... a taste of liberty
MALE CHORUS
He gets... a taste of liberty
ALTAR BOY
The Pope declares that it's a sin
MALE CHORUS
The Pope declares that it's a sin
TROUBLEMAKER
So let us raid the apple tree
Although the Pope does not agree
He blesses us with sleight of hand
He doesn’t want the Rights of Man
ALTAR BOY
The Pope declares that it's a sin
MALE CHORUS
The Pope declares that it's a sin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The Pope declares that it's... a sin
People are sharing the apples
The Pope says Bless You but it's still a sin
COMPANY
The Pope says Bless You but it's still a sin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The Pope gives his blessing with sleight of hand
COMPANY
The Pope gives his blessing with sleight of hand
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He doesn't want the
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & MALE CHORUS
Rights... of Man
ALTAR BOY
The Pope declares that it's a sin
MALE CHORUS
The Pope declares that it's a sin
TROUBLEMAKER
But the Pope can change his mind like that
Like trying on a different hat
Turning on the stars above and politics and God and love
Turning like an apple that shrivels on the sand
And when the core is rotten
No one tastes the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
You never taste the Rights of Man...
CHORUS
He does not want the Rights of Man
The Pope does not want the Rights of Man
He's made his stand
He washes his hands
The Pope does not... want the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Nothing but a prayer to hope for
Nothing but a little wine to dream
Nothing for this hunger but a handful of grain
The horizon always the same
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & TROUBLEMAKER
Rooted in this earth
Like our parents dead and gone
Like the trees which are our emblem
The horizon just goes on and on
We'll change it with a forest
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, TROUBLEMAKER & CHORUS
The olive and the oak tree
Will be our flags
(Curtain)
Scene 1
"Dances and Marches"
RINGMASTER
Versailles the leaves fall
It's that time of the year
Her Majesty is bored with all
This endless calling for reform
But the sound of young men marching
Is like music to her ear
The sound of young men marching
Is like music to her ear
But she dreams of young men dancing
QUEEN
Dancing, dancing...
RINGMASTER
And the dream of young men dancing
Hangs like birdsong in the air
Now Hear Ye!
Her Majesty invites the regiments
To a Grand Ball
Versailles in October
The Queen is having a fling
She invites all the regiments
Loyal to the King
Wining and dining and making eyes at them all
Smiling in the limelight
The Queen is having a ball
OFFICER
The Queen is smiling
The Queen is laughing
She makes eyes at one and all
CHORUS
She’s having a ball
RINGMASTER
Flushed with wine Marie Antoinette
Casts down her red, white and blue rosette
An impetuous and dangerous vignette
OFFICER
And then with her harming little shoe
She grinds the precious symbol underfoot
what a lark, what a hoot
The regiments all follow suit
The regiments
CHORUS
The regiments
OFFICER
The regiments
CHORUS
The regiments
OFFICER & CHORUS
The regiments all follow suit
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Red, white and blue and they all follow suit
CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Red, white and blue and they all follow suit
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
In Paris there is nothing to eat
CHORUS
Not a crust, not a crumb
Not a grain of wheat
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
They think that starving may weaken the man in the street
CHORUS
Not a chance, they're used to the heat
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
In Versailles they drink wine and dine on freshly baked bread
CHORUS
The peacock sprawls upon his bed
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
We choke on the bones of swallowed pride instead
CHORUS
Soon they'll see what a feast they've made
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
A bitter feast
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHORUS
For the Parisians
CHORUS
...for the Parisians
RINGMASTER
These hags, these shrews, these courtesans
These animals we call women
Have marched hear through the pouring rain
TO bring the baker home again
CHORUS
Louis protests; he cries
KING
Veto, veto! I'll give you all bread if you just let me go!
RINGMASTER
These fishwives with their babies, these animals called ladies
Will carry back home to Paris
The King, The Queen, and The Dauphin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Versailles has loomed to the regiments' final bow
CHORUS
Versailles bloomed
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
All fawning before
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
The Austrian cow!
CHORUS
Fawning on bended knee
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The party's over
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Take down the marquee
CHORUS
Hang up your dancing shoes in the hanging tree
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
We'll take the baker back to Paris
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Back to Paris
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
He'll make bread for the prince we decree
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, CHILDREN'S CHORUS, & FEMALE CHORUS
The shrews, the hags and the courtesans
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
The animals we call women
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, CHILDREN'S CHORUS, & FEMALE CHORUS
Will take back the King to Paris
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
The crowd now seven thousand strong
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
Bore the royal coach along
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS
With trophies raised on pikes above
TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS
The guardsman’s heads they had cut off
TROUBLEMAKER
Adieu Versailles
MALE CHORUS
It rains, it pours, the crowd roars
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Bonjour Paris
CHORUS
Adieu Versailles
COMPANY
Bonjour Paris, adieu Versailles
Scene 2
"The Letter"
RINGMASTER
Imprisoned in the Tuilaries
The King makes locks
To the sound of the ticking clocks
And the rain falling on his window pane
Makes him think of his cousin Bourbon
Safe in his castle in Spain
KING
My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain
This letter I entrust to a courier faithful and sure
Is to calm your fears and tell you cousin dear
My heart is pure
This red cap I wear,
These lies they've made me swear
Are repugnant to my soul
My very bones cry out in pain
Cousin Bourbon of Spain
You know my feelings well
You've heard what I've had to say
But now all my beliefs
Have been snatched by these thieves
And cruelly torn away
But none of the scum who run through the streets
Taking law from a bottle of wine
Could presume to assume the fealty due
To me or to you from your subjects or Mine
My dear cousin Bourbon n of Spain
Let's make a pact, let's campaign
Let us whip back to their kennels again
These dogs who speak of virtue
Help me, cousin
Help me cousin Bourbon of Spain
RINGMASTER
The ship of state is all at sea
The King is confused
'Tis hard enough to place one foot before the last
To tread a path preordained by a law divine
But to pad all aimless on a shifting sea
Each man an island free to choose his fate
God's death; what dizzy, giddy, fall from grace...
Commerce, that barometer of faith
Tolls warning of the coming storm
No coffee in the marketplace
No peace on earth for rich or poor
Scene 3
"Silver, Sugar and Indigo"
TROUBLEMAKER
How can you sleep?
How can you think?
How can you live with no coffee to drink?
You'd better pray you don't have a sweet tooth
The price of sugar is through the roof
Robespierre, Brissot and Concordant all agree
We must set the blackbird free
But sugar and silver and indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
To the Windward Isles
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
It comes today
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
The wind of change blows this way
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Blows this way
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
In Sante Domingo and elsewhere
To slaves of sugar and despair
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Silver, sugar, indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
Bring freedom to the
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Colonies
Act on principle
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
Equality, Fraternity and
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Liberty
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
Are
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Not just words after all
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
But
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Sugar is sweet
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
And
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Coffee is strong
Hope goes down with the sun
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE
And REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
The sun goes down behind
CONDORCET & MARIE MARIANNE
Mountains of silver
Valleys of sugar
And shiploads of indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
MARIE MARIANNE
So come ye ships
Across the sea
Let's case into the deep
This shame and misery
In Paris they condemn our rage
Condorcet stands his ground and says:
CONDORCET
My friends if we believe in freedom
Then we must unlock this cage
COMPANY
Vive Condorcet, hear him scold them,
The frigid reactionary old men
Good God above it's over
Enough is enough
Enough, enough, enough
To the Windward Isles
Revolution has arrived
They will only free us when
They need us to fight for them
CONDORCET & MARIE MARIANNE
Cast into the deep sea
This shame and this misery
Silver, sugar and indigo
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
CHORUS
Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
COMPANY
"Idiot!"
Scene 4
"The Papal Edict"
RINGMASTER
Trade wings, buffeting the sweet molasses
Smoke of burning cane
Push, swelling East the spreading ripples of unrest,
Back to Europe and the rain
The Holy See safe on Tiber's shore
Surveys the flotsam on the tide
Ignores the cries of drowning men and
Passes on the other side
TROUBLEMAKER
In Paris there's a rumble under the ground
It's the sound of the printing press
And like a volcano when it blows
It spews out ideas like confetti, like snow
BOY
Read all about it!
Hold the front page!
The street's a theatre
Each café...
CHORUS & CHILDREN
A stage!
RINGMASTER
But under every café awning
There appears this papal warning
TROUBLEMAKER
His Holiness the Pope, I fear
Believes the Rights of Man to be a bad idea
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The Pope does not want the rights of Man
COMPANY
The Pope does not want the rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He finds them too profane
COMPANY
He finds them too profane
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
When a man bites the apple
COMPANY
When a man bites the apple
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He gets a taste for liberty
COMPANY
He gets a taste for liberty
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He gets... a taste of liberty
MALE CHORUS
He gets... a taste of liberty
ALTAR BOY
The Pope declares that it's a sin
MALE CHORUS
The Pope declares that it's a sin
TROUBLEMAKER
So let us raid the apple tree
Although the Pope does not agree
He blesses us with sleight of hand
He doesn’t want the Rights of Man
ALTAR BOY
The Pope declares that it's a sin
MALE CHORUS
The Pope declares that it's a sin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The Pope declares that it's... a sin
People are sharing the apples
The Pope says Bless You but it's still a sin
COMPANY
The Pope says Bless You but it's still a sin
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
The Pope gives his blessing with sleight of hand
COMPANY
The Pope gives his blessing with sleight of hand
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
He doesn't want the
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & MALE CHORUS
Rights... of Man
ALTAR BOY
The Pope declares that it's a sin
MALE CHORUS
The Pope declares that it's a sin
TROUBLEMAKER
But the Pope can change his mind like that
Like trying on a different hat
Turning on the stars above and politics and God and love
Turning like an apple that shrivels on the sand
And when the core is rotten
No one tastes the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
You never taste the Rights of Man...
CHORUS
He does not want the Rights of Man
The Pope does not want the Rights of Man
He's made his stand
He washes his hands
The Pope does not... want the Rights of Man
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Nothing but a prayer to hope for
Nothing but a little wine to dream
Nothing for this hunger but a handful of grain
The horizon always the same
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & TROUBLEMAKER
Rooted in this earth
Like our parents dead and gone
Like the trees which are our emblem
The horizon just goes on and on
We'll change it with a forest
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, TROUBLEMAKER & CHORUS
The olive and the oak tree
Will be our flags
(Curtain)
Roger Waters - Ca Ira
Roger Waters - Ca Ira 26th September 2005
“Act Two Scenes 1 - 4” (Waters)
“Act Two Scenes 1 - 4” (Waters)
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