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Artist: Pippin
Title: No Time At All
Submit by: Annie
Date: 04/03/2004
Hits: 22
BERTHE
WHEN YOU ARE AS OLD AS I, MY DEAR
AND I HOPE THAT YOU NEVER ARE
YOU WILL WOEFULLY WONDER WHY, MY DEAR
THROUGH YOUR CATARACTS AND CATARRH
YOU COULD SQUANDER AWAY OR SEQUESTER
A DROP OF A PRECIOUS YEAR
FOR WHEN YOUR BEST DAYS ARE YESTER
THE REST 'ER TWICE AS DEAR...
WHAT GOOD IS A FIELD ON A FINE SUMMER NIGHT
IF YOU SIT ALL ALONE WITH THE WEEDS?
OR A SUCCULENT PEAR IF WITH EACH JUICY BITE
YOU SPIT OUT YOUR TEETH WITH THE SEEDS?
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE STOP TRYING TO WAIT
FOR FORTUNE AND FATE YOU'RE SECURE OF
FOR THERE'S ONE THING TO BE SURE OF, MATE:
THERE'S NOTHING TO BE SURE OF.
(PIPPIN jumps to his feet)
PIPPIN
But Grandma, it's time that I'm worried about.
BERTHE
Now you sit down. And don't say anything until I'm finished. I've got three more choruses to do. But you can all join in with me if you wish...
(To audience)
And that goes for all of you out there, too. But just the choruses, the verses are all mine.
(Sings)
I'VE NEVER WONDERED IF I WAS AFRAID
WHEN THERE WAS A CHALLENGE TO TAKE
I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT HOW MUCH I WEIGHED
WHEN THERE WAS STILL ONE PIECE OF CAKE
MAYBE IT'S MEANT THE HOURS I'VE SPENT
FEELING BROKEN AND BENT AND UNWELL
BUT THERE'S STILL NO CURE SO HEAVEN-SENT
AS THE CHANCE TO RAISE SOME HELL.
(The BOYS join her. A song sheet is lowered behind her,
and the words of the song are delineated by a bouncing ball of light)
Everybody...
ALL
OH, IT'S TIME TO START LIVIN'
TIME TO TAKE A LITTLE FROM THIS WORLD WE'RE GIVEN
TIME TO TAKE TIME, CAUSE SPRING WILL TURN TO FALL
IN JUST NO TIME AT ALL
BERTHE
Verse!
NOW WHEN THE DREARIES DO ATTACK
AND A SIEGE OF THE SADS BEGINS
I THROW THESE REGAL SHOULDERS BACK
AND LIFT THESE NOBLE CHINS
GIVE ME A MAN WHO IS HANDSOME AND STRONG
SOMEONE WHO'S STALWART AND STEADY
GIVE ME A NIGHT THAT'S ROMANTIC AND LONG
THEN GIVE ME A MONTH TO GET READY
NOW I COULD WAYLAY SOME AGING ROUE
AND PERSUADE HIM TO PLAY IN SOME CRANNY
BUT IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE I'M BEING LED ASTRAY
BY A MAN WHO CALLS ME GRANNY
(Spoken)
One more time! Come on boys! And this time let's hear it from everybody! One! Two! Three! Four!
ALL
OH, IT'S TIME TO START LIVIN'
(BERTHE encourages the audience to sing along. SHE shouts "Everybody")
TIME TO TAKE A LITTLE FROM THIS WORLD WE'RE GIVEN
TIME TO TAKE TIME, CAUSE SPRING WILL TURN TO FALL
IN JUST NO TIME AT ALL.
BERTHE
Come on! You ought to know it by now!
ALL
OH, IT'S TIME TO START LIVIN'
TIME TO TAKE A LITTLE FROM THIS WORLD WE'RE GIVEN
TIME TO TAKE TIME, CAUSE SPRING WILL TURN TO FALL
IN JUST NO TIME AT ALL.
BERTHE
Out! Out!
SAGES TWEET THAT AGE IS SWEET
GOOD DEEDS AND GOOD WORK EARN YOU LAURELS
BUT WHAT COULD MAKE YOU FEEL MORE OBSOLETE
THAN BEING NOTED FOR YOUR MORALS?
HERE IS A SECRET I NEVER HAVE TOLD
MAYBE YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHY
I BELIEVE IF I REFUSE TO GROW OLD
I CAN STAY YOUNG TILL I DIE
NOW I'VE KNOWN THE FEARS OF SIXTY-SIX YEARS
I'VE HAD TROUBLES AND TEARS BY THE SCORE
BUT THE ONLY THING I'D TRADE THEM FOR
IS SIXTY-SEVEN MORE...
ALL
OH, IT'S TIME TO START...
BERTHE
(Stopping the BOYS and audience from singing)
Aaaah!
(To the man in the light booth controlling the bouncing ball)
And you up there...out!
(The arc goes out)
Now let me take this one all by myself, all right?
(The BOYS join BERTHE--making
a chair for her with their arms.
THEY lift her up. SHE sings.)
OH, IT'S TIME TO KEEP LIVIN'
TIME TO KEEP TAKIN' FROM THIS WORLD I'M GIVEN
YOU ARE MY TIME, SO I'LL THROW OFF MY SHAWL
AND WATCHING YOUR FLINGS BE FLUNG ALL OVER
MAKES ME FEEL YOUNG ALL OVER
BERTHE AND BOYS
IN JUST NO TIME AT ALL...
(The BOYS carry BERTHE offstage and SHE shouts to PIPPIN)
BERTHE
Remember that, Pippin!
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