The Music Man Page #3

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Right here in River City!

Right here!

Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock, and the Golden Rule!

Our children's children gonna have trouble!

Oh, we got trouble We're in terrible terrible trouble

That game with the fifteen numbered balls is the devil's tool!

Devil's tool!

Ah, we got trouble! Trouble! Trouble!

Oh, yes, we got trouble here we got big, big trouble

With a With a capital You gotta rhyme it with P!

That rhymes with P!

That stands for pool!

That stands for pool!

We got trouble Right here in River City

That stands for pool!

Our children's children are gonna have trouble

Our children's children are gonna have trouble

Right here in River City

With a capital T that rhymes with P

And that stands for pool!

We surely got trouble trouble, trouble! Right here in River City!

Right here! Gotta figure out a way

To keep the young ones moral after school

Did you drop your...

No!

Didn't we meet in...

No!

I will only be in town a short while,

I'll...

Good!

(PIANO PLAYING)

(HUMMING)

MRS. PAROO:
Oh!

Is that you, daughter?

MARIAN:
Yes, Mama. Keep on, Amaryllis. I'll be there in a minute.

Fine, dear. Now your exercises.

Yes, ma'am.

Hello, Mama.

I don't remember the library bein' open this late last summer.

It was, Mama, you just don't recall.

Mama, a man with a suitcase has been following me all over town.

Oh! Who?

I don't know. I've never seen him before.

Did he say anything?

He tried.

Did you say anything?

Mama, of course not.

Now, don't dawdle, Amaryllis.

Sol do la re ti mi

A little slower and please keep the fingers curved

As nice and high as you possibly can

Don't get faster, dear.

If you don't mind my saying so, it wouldn't have hurt you

to find out what the gentleman wanted.

I know what the gentleman wanted.

What, dear?

You'll find it in Balzac.

Excuse me for livin' but I've never read it.

Neither has anyone else in this town

There you go again with that same old comment

About the low-mentality of River City people

And takin' it all too much to heart

Now, Mama, as long as the Madison Public Library

Was entrusted to me for the purpose of improving River City's cultural level

I can't help my concern that the ladies of River City

Keep ignoring all my counsel and advice

But darling when a woman has a husband

And you've got none

Ugh!

Why should she take advice from you

Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other highfalutin' Greeks

Mama, if you don't mind my sayin' so

You have a bad habit of changing every subject

Now I haven't changed the subject. I was talkin' about that stranger

What stranger?

With the suitcase who may be your very last chance!

Mama! Do you think that I'd allow a common masher Now really, Mama!

I have my standards where men are concerned and I have no intention

I know all about your standards and if you don't mind my sayin' so

There's not a man alive who could hope to measure up

To that blend of Paul Bunyan Saint Pat, and Noah Webster

You've concocted for yourself outta your Irish imagination

Your Iowa stubbornness and your library fulla' books

Well, if that isn't the best I've ever heard!

Thank you.

Can I have a drink too, please?

May I have...

May I have a drink, please?

Yes, dear.

(DOG BARKING)

(DOOR OPENS)

Winthrop. It's after dark.

Is that a way to greet your mother, I'd like to know?

Hello.

Well, that won't do at all.

I'll have a kiss if you please.

One for your sister, too.

Hello, Winthrop.

I'm having a party on Saturday.

Will you please come?

I would especially like it very much if you'd come, Winthrop.

MRS. PAROO:
Well, Winthrop?

Amaryllis asked you to her party. Are you goin' or aren't ya?

No.

No, what?

No, thank you.

You know the little girl's name.

He won't say Amaryllis because of the "S", because of his lisp.

Yeah, we know all about his lisp, Amaryllis.

Well, Winthrop?

I'll bet he won't say it.

No, thank you, Amaryllis.

(AMARYLLIS GIGGLING)

Winthrop, honey!

Why does he get so mad at people just because he lisps?

Not only because he lisps. That's just part of it, Amaryllis.

What's the other part?

Never mind, dear.

It's just that he never talks very much.

Not even to you and your mother?

No, dear. We all have to be a little patient.

I'm patient. Even though he doesn't ever talk to me.

But I talk to him.

Every night, I say goodnight to him on the evening star.

"Goodnight, my Winthrop. Sleep tight."

(AMARYLLIS SOBS)

Oh, there, darling, don't cry.

You have lots of time. If not Winthrop, there'll be someone else.

Never! I'll end up an old maid like you.

I'm sorry, Miss Marian.

Can I play my cross-hand piece?

May I play...

May I play my cross-hand piece?

You may.

See, without a sweetheart you have no one to say goodnight to on the evening star.

I know, Amaryllis. For the time being, just say, "Goodnight, my..."

Someone.

You can put the name in when the right someone comes along.

It's better than nothing.

Yes, it is.

Now you can play your cross-hand piece.

Now I may play my cross-hand piece.

Goodnight, my someone

Goodnight, my love

Sleep tight, my someone

Sleep tight, my love

Our star is shining

Its brightest light

For goodnight, my love

For goodnight

Sweet dreams be yours, dear

If dreams there be

Sweet dreams to carry you close to me

I wish they may

And I wish they might

Now goodnight, my someone, goodnight

True love can be whispered

From heart to heart

When lovers are parted

They say

But I must depend on a wish

And a star

As long as my heart

Doesn't know who you are

Sweet dreams

Be yours, dear if dreams there be

Sweet dreams to carry

You close to me

I wish they may

And I wish they might

Now, goodnight my someone

Goodnight

Goodnight

Goodnight

(RAIN POURING)

Thy banners make tyranny tremble

When borne by

The red, white, and blue

When borne by the red, white, and blue

When borne by the red, white, and blue

Thy banners make tyranny tremble

When borne by the red, white, and blue

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

I'm sure we're all grateful to my wife, Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn,

for leading the singing.

Bravo, Eulalie, bravo!

And to Jacey Squires for his fine stereoptican slides.

Thank you.

And to Ethel Toffelmeier,

our fine player-piano player piano.

(ALL APPLAUDING)

As Mayor of River City, I welcome you River Citizians

to the Flag Day exercises set up for the indoors

here in Madison Gymnasium account a'the weather.

(AUDIENCE CHUCKLING)

Four score...

(FLAPPING)

Four score...

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(DISPERSED LAUGHTER)

Shoo! Shoo!

Ah, the newly selected

elected members of the School Board

will now present a patriotic tableau.

Read it. Read the note.

The note.

Oh.

The members of the School Board will not present a patriotic tableau.

Some disagreement about costumes, I suppose.

Instead the Wa-Tan-Ye girls of the local wigwam of Heeawatha

will present a spectacle, my wife...

In which my wife, Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn,

will take a leading part.

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