More Song-Parody Type Stuff

Save My Brother (Godspell)

If you want to save your head (Miss Saigon)

Mister Ken Labey (Chicago)

I am the Very Model of a Fan of Scarlet Pimpernel (The Pirates of Penzance)

"Save the People" from Godspell

(click here for actual lyrics)

(scene: Marguerite has just learned of her brother's arrest, but not of her husband's true identity.)

When wilt God save my brother?

O poor, foolish Armand

He had to run off to France

Before I knew he's gone

Flower of scarlet

My love always

Please do not let him pass away

God save that hero

My brother too

God save my brother!

He got himself arrested

In league with "pimpernel"

If I get my hands on Chauvelin

I'm gonna give him hell--

That loathsome two-faced

Ex-love of mine

Tried to blackmail me, o that swine

They've got my brother

I despair

God save my brother!

(slower, belt voicing w/ backup chorus) How can God save my brother?

What is there I can do?

My brother, Lord, my brother

Don't fear, I'll come--for you!

God save my brother

If not, I will

Just have to hope I don't get killed

I'll get a cheap dress

And a wig

I'll save my brother! (O, she'll save her brother)

I'll save my brother (O, she'll save her brother)

I'll save my brother!

selected parts of "If You Want to Die in Bed" from "Miss Saigon"

Percy: If you want to save your head. follow my example

When you see a crowd ahead, pretend you're lower class

Sing the ca ira, cover your pampered british ass

If you want to save your head in times of revolution

When the flag's blue, white, and red, let pride fill up your chest

Then you flee Paree and sail your schooner heading west

(skip a bit)

If you want to save your head, forget about your status

When your life hangs by a thread, can't be a nobleman

Grab a hat, mustache, and tell 'em that your name's Grappin

If you want to save your head, you learn to be creative

Be a female or a monk, or whatever you want

And hiding in your cart are a couple ci-devants

(slowly, smug) If one wants to chop a head in this dark and bloody country

One might have some trouble yet--nincompoops get in the way

Robespierre-- (heh heh heh)

Why, he just let us get awaaaaaaaaay!

The Ken Labey Song

the middle of "Mister Cellophane" from Chicago

Suppose you was a Belgian man

Who's actually Australi-an

He's beautiful--he's talented

--you'd notice him.

Suppose you was a pimpy fan

And seekin' here that cute Grappin

at the stage door for several days--

You'd notice him...

And even I guess that the man's a little shy

He seems the more secluded kind of guy

they call him the elusive Ken Labey --

Quite a swasher--

Quite a buckler --

La -- sink -- me...

Ken Labey, Mister Ken Labey

Pretty darn lucky

If you meet Ken Labey

because he'll rush right by you

sneak right past you

but we still know he's there

I -- tell -- ya --

KEN Labey, Mister KEN Labey

Nothing's wrong with me

'cause I like KEN Labey

But some people walk right past him

Look right by him

and never know he's there!

Never -- even -- knoow

he's there...

This goes out to all the hardcore leaguers (and the bucaneers!) out there.  (and no, it's *not* about me.)

"I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance

I am the very model of a fan of Scarlet Pimpernel

I've information critical, historical, and what-the-hell

I know the reign of terror and I quote the facts historical

From Bastille Day and up until Napoleon was general

I'm very well acquainted with all Pimpy site U.R.L.'s

I can name the variations and the colors of the pimpernels

I like to hear the fanfare and I like to see the men in tights

And I was in that mob present at every version's closing nights

I know cast members personally and I know who Ken Labey is

I have to reenact scenes when I find myself on foootbridges

In matters informational, historical and what-the-hell

I am the very model of a fan of Scarlet Pimpernel

I know all my French history--King Louis got his head chopped off

And I'd buy Doug's deodorant if only it were auctioned off

I can quote with fine precision every pimpy script Nan Knighton wrote

And memorized the music, every harmony and minor note

I can name all the Orczy books in order chronological

I can tell you all the ad-libs, although some aren't logical

I become very excited when I hear pimpy references

And for one thing I would risk my life -- my pimpernelic preferences!

Then I can fight a duel then I'll fake my executioning

I'll get a laugh at curatain call passing around the pimpy ring

But if there is a casting call, I'm sure that I'd do really well

Because I am the one who's meant to play the scarlet pimpernel!

Of course my being female may interfere substantially

But with my brilliant talents, they will all love me eventually

I can almost sing and almost dance and I drawl really well, you know

They'll say a better scarlet pimpy never--stole the show!

In escaping Madame G. I show I'm plucky and adventury

And even though I'm stuck in time in the mid-eighteenth century

In fact I am personable, admirable, professional

I am the very model of the perfect scarlet pimpernel!

Me (to conductor): Un poco accelerando..(a la Ozzy) Sill Voose Plate!

(repeat last two verses very fast.)

....I am the very model of the perfect scarlet pimpernel!

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