Fun with lyrics (Musicals version)

[mitchy]

I was bored at work earlier so I thought up a song lyric meme :) Guess the song and the musical these lyrics come from!


1) Selling your mom is a wrench, Perfume can cover a stench, That's what I learned from the French - "American Dream" from Miss Saigon (nabbed by thessalian)

2) Fighting with microphones, Freezing down to my bones, And to top it all off, I'm with you! - "Tango:Maureen" from Rent (nabbed by halcyon_shift)

3) But where on earth can people hide their little piece of heaven? Thank God for Switzerland. - "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" from Evita (nabbed by vissy)

4) You can go to Philadelphia, Take a hack to Hackensack. Hey, I'll never ring a bell for yer, or yell fer yer to come back! - "I Can Do Without You" from Calamity Jane (nabbed by minmorton)

5) He looks like he's asleep, it's a shame that he won't keep, but it's summer an' we're runnin' outta ice - "Pore Jud is Daid" from Oklahoma! (nabbed by halcyon_shift)

6) And I'm a genius genius, and I believe in God - "Manchester, England" from Hair (nabbed by vickita)

7) If I were a duck, I'd quack! And if I were a goose, I'd be cooked! - "If I Were A Bell" from Guys and Dolls (nabbed by jenni411)

8) He took a flower in its prime. And then he used it and he abused it, it was murder but not a crime! - "The Cell Block Tango" from Chicago (mostly nabbed by jenni411)

9) I'll be wetting down the razor then I figure "what's the point?" so I go into the living room, roll another joint

10) No father is not proud of you, no sister acts ashamed - "The Wizard and I" from Wicked (nabbed by voluta)

Comments

[vickita.livejournal.com]

#6 -- Hair, "Manchester England"

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I'm glad you got this, I didn't think anyone on my flist would know the musical well enough(except maybe jenni411 who saw it with me in NYC recently).

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Oh, I fell all in lurv with "Hair" when the movie version with Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo came out a million years ago. I bought the original Broadway cast recording and listened to it over and over and over and... I know all of the words to all of the songs. My favorite is "Easy to be Hard," although I love "What a Piece of Work is Man" a lot. (They had a really excellent lyricist for that one. ;-D )

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that movie was the first time I saw it too! Didn't realise how different it was from the show until I saw it on stage, though. Both versions are excellent, I think, although I prefer Claude doing "I got life".