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Annie
Music: Charles Strouse
Lyrics: Martin Charnin
Book: Thomas Meehan
Premiere: Thursday, April 21, 1977
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1.OVERTURE
2.MAYBE
3.IT'S A HARD KNOCK LIFE
4.TOMORROW
5.WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU HERBERT HOOVER
6.LITTLE GIRLS
7.I THINK I'M GONNA LIKE IT HERE
8.N.Y.C.
9.EASY STREET
10.YOU WON'T BE AN ORPHAN FOR LONG
11.YOU'RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE
12.TOMORROW (REPRISE)
13.SOMETHING WAS MISSING
14.I DONT NEED ANYTHING BUT YOU
15.ANNIE
16.NEW DEAL FOR CHRISTMAS



1.OVERTURE
(Instrumental)


2.MAYBE
Annie:
Maybe far away
Or maybe real nearby
He may be pouring her coffee
She may be straight'ning this tie!

Maybe in a house
All hidden by a hill
She's sitting playing piano,
He's sitting paying a bill!

Betcha they're young
Betcha they're smart
Bet they collect things
Like ashtrays, and art!

Betcha they're good
Why shouldn't they be?
Their one mistake
Was giving up me!

So maybe now it's time,
And maybe when I wake
They'll be there calling me "Baby"...
Maybe.

Betcha he reads
Betcha she sews
Maybe she's made me
A closet of clothes!

Maybe they're strict
As striaght as a line...
Don't really care
As long as they're mine!

So maybe now this prayer's
The last one of it's kind...
Won't you please come get your "Baby"...

Annie and Orphans:
Maybe...


3.IT'S A HARD KNOCK LIFE
Orphans:
It's the hard-knock life for us!
It's the hard-knock life for us!

Annie:
'Steada treated,

Orphans:
We get tricked!

Annie:
'Steada kisses,

Orphans:
We get kicked!

All:
It's the hard-knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so,
It's the hard-knock row we how!

Annie:
Cotton blankets,

Orphans:
'Steada of wool!

Annie:
Empty Bellies

Orphans:
'Steada of full!

All:
It's the hard-knock life!

Annie:
Don't if feel like the wind is always howln'?

Kate and Tessie:
Don't it seem like there's never any light!

Duffy and July:
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?

Molly and Pepper:
It's easier than puttin' up a fight.

Annie:
No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy!
No one cares if you grow or if you shrink!
No one dries when your eyes get wet an' weepy!

All:
From all the cryin' you would think this place's a sink!
Oh!

Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

Molly:
Santa Claus we never see

Annie:
Santa Claus, what's that who's he?

All:
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage!

Molly:
(Making a whistling sound and imitating Miss. Hannigan)
You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the chrysler
building.

Orphans:
Yank the whiskers from her chin
Jab her with a safety Pin
Make her drink a mickey finn
I love you, Miss Hannigan

All:
It's the hard-knock life for us
It's the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage

It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life!


4.TOMORROW
Annie:
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may

Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

You're always
A day
A way!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may

Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

You're always
A day
A way!

Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

You're always
A day
A way!


5.WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU HERBERT HOOVER
All:
Today we're living in a shanty
Today we're scrounding for a meal

Sophie:
Today I'm stealing coal for fires
Who knew I could steal?

Men:
I used to winter in the tropics

Women:
I spent my summers at the shore

Fred:
I used to throw away the papers

All:
We'd like to thank you: Herber Hoover
For really showing us the way
We'd like to thank you: Herbert Hoover
You made us what we are today

Prosperity was 'round the corner
The cozy cottage built for two
In this blue heaven
That you
Gave us
Yes! We're turning blue!

They offered us Al Smith and Hoover
We paid attention and we chose
Not only did we pay attention
We paid through the nose.

In ev'ry pt he said "a chicken"
But Herbert Hoover he forgot
Not only don't we have the chicken
We ain't got the pot!

Hey Herbie

Women:
You left behind a greatful nation

All:
So, Herb, our hats are off to you
We're up to here with admiration

Sophie:
Come down and have a little stew

All:
Come down and share some Christmas dinner
Be sure to bring the missus too
We got no turkey for our stuffing
Why don't we stuff you!

We'd like to thank you, Herbert Hoover
For really showing us the way
You dirty rat, you
Bureaucrat, you
Made us what we are today

Come and get it, Herb!


6.LITTLE GIRLS
Miss Hannigan:
Little girls
Little girls
Everywhere I turn
I can see them
Little girls
Little girls
Night and day
I eat, sleep and breathe them

I'm an ordinary woman
With feelings
I'd like a man to nibble on my ear
But I admit no man has bit
So how come I'm the mother of the year?

Little cheeks
Little teeth
Everything around me is little
If I wring
Little necks
Surely I will get an acquittal

Some women are dripping with diamonds
Some women are dripping with pearls
Lucky me!
Lucky me!
Look at what I'm dripping with
Little girls

How I hate
Little shoes
Little socks
And each little bloomer
I'd have cracked
Years ago
If it weren't for my
Sense of humor

Some day I'll step on their freckles
Some night I'll straighten their curls
Send a flood
Send the flu
Anything that
You can do
To little girls

Some day I'll land in the nuthouse
With all the nuts, and the squirr'ls
There I'll stay
Until the prohibition of
Little girls.


7.I THINK I'M GONNA LIKE IT HERE
Grace(spoken):
Annie you are our guest for Christmas, and for the next two weeks you're
going to have a swell time!
(sung)
Cecille will pick out all your clothes

Cecille (spoken):
Green is her best color, no blue I think.

Grace:
Your bath is drawn by Mrs. Greer.

Greer (spoken):
Saop...no, bubbles, I think.

Grace:
Annette comes in to make your bed.

Annette (spoken):
The silk sheets, no the satian sheets, I think.

Annie:
I think I'm gonna like it here!

Grace:
The swimming pool is to the left

Annie(spoken):
Inside the house?

Grace:
Uh uh!

Annie:
Oh boy.

Grace:
The tennis court is in the rear

Annie (spoken):
I never even picked up a racket.

Grace:
Have an instructor here at noon
(spoken)
Oh, and get that Don Budge fellow if he's available.

Annie:
I think I'm gonna like it here.

Grace:
When you wake
Ring for Drake
Drake will bring your tray
When you're through
Mrs.Pugh
Comes and takes it away.

Grace and servants:
No need to pick up any toys

Annie (spoken):
That's okay, I haven't got any anyway.

Grace:
No finger will you lift my dear

All:
We have but one request
Please put us to the test

Annie:
I know I'm gonna like it here
Used to room in a tomb
Where I'd sit and freeze
Get me now, holy cow
Could someone pinch me please.
Ouch!

Grace:
(spoken)
She didn't mean it.
(Singing)
We've never had a little girl

All:
We've never had a little girl

Annie:
I'm very glad to volunteer

Grace and servants:
We hope you understand
Your wish is our command

Annie: Grace and Servants:
I know I'm gonna like it here We know you're gonna like it here
All:
Welcome


8.N.Y.C.
Warbucks:
NYC
What is it about you
You're big
You're loud
You're tough

NYC
I go years without you
Then I
Can't get
Enough

Enough of cab drivers answering back
In the language far from pure
Enough of frankfurters answering back
Brother, you know you're in
NYC

Too busy, too crazy
Too hot
Too cold
Too late
I'm sold
Again
On NYC

All (New Yokers and Grace Annie and Warbucks):
NYC

Grace:
The shadows at sundown
The roofs
That scrape
The sky

All:
NYC

Warbucks and Grace:
The rich and the rundown
The big parade goes by

Warbucks:
No other town has the Empire State
And a mayor five foot two
No other town in the whole forty eight
Can half compare to you

All:
Oh NYC

Warbucks:
You make 'em all postcards

Warbucks and Grace:
You crowd
You cramp
You're still
The champ
Amen
For NYC

(NYC)
The shimmer of Times Square

Warbucks:
The pulse

Grace:
The beat

Warbucks and Grace:
The drive!
(NYC)

Warbucks:
You might say the Times Square
But then I come alive!

Warbucks and Grace:
The city's bright
As a penny arcade
It blinks, it tilts, it rings

Annie:
To think that I've lived here all of my life
And never seen these things

All:
Oh, NYC
The whole world keeps coming

Warbucks:
By bus

Grace:
By train

Warbucks and Grace:
You can't
Explain
Their yen for...

Star to be:
NYC
Just got here this morning
Three bucks
Two bags
One me
NYC
I give you fair warning
Up there
In lights
I'll be
Go ask the gershwins or kaufman and hart
The place they love the best
Through California pays big for thier art
Their fan mail comes addressed to
NYC

Tomorrow a penthouse
That's way up high
Tonight
The "Y"
Why not
It's NYC

All:
NYC
You're standing room only
You crowd
You cramp
You're still
The champ
Amen
For NYC


9.EASY STREET
Rooster:
I remember the way
Our sainted mother
Would sit and croon us
Her lullaby

Miss Hannigan:
She'd say, kids, there's a place
That's like no other
You got to get there before you die

Rooster:
You don't get there
By playing from the rule book

Hannigan:
You stack the aces

Rooster:
You load the dice

Hannigan and Rooster:
Mother dear
Oh, we know you're down there listening,
How can we follow
Your sweet Advice to...

Rooster:
Easy street
Easy street
Where you sleep till noon

Hannigan:
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Rooster and Hannigan:
She'd repeat
Easy street
Better get there soon.

Rooster, Hannigan, and Lily:
Easy street
Easy street
Where the rich folks play
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Move them feet

Hannigan:
Move them ever-lovin' feet

Rooster, Hannigan, and Lily:
To easy street

Hannigan:
Easy street

Rooster, Hannigan, and Lily:
When you get there stay

Rooster:
It ain't fair
How we scrounge
For three of four bucks
While she gets Warbucks

Hannigan:
The little brat!
It ain't fair this here life
Is drivin' me nuts!
While we get peanuts
She's livin' fat!

Rooster:
Maybe she holds the key
That little lady

Hannigan:
To gettin' more bucks

Rooster:
Instead of less
Maybe we fix the game
With something shady

Lily:
Where does that put us?

Hannigan:
Oh, tell her.

Rooster:
If you want: yes!

Rooster, Hannigan, and Lily:
Yes!

Easy street
Easy street
Annie is the key
Yes sirree
Yes sirree
Yes sirree

Easy street
Easy street
That's where we're gonna...be!


10.YOU WON'T BE AN ORPHAN FOR LONG
Grace:
If he should need the F.B.I.
Then he will have the F.B.I.

All:
With all the favors that he's done
J. Edger Hoover owes him one.

Cecille and Annette:
And then the midnight oil gets burned
'Till not a stone is left unturned

All:
He will search everywhere
And he'll find them, I swear.

Grace:
Oh, you won't be an orphan for long!

All:
Where other men would call it quits
And disappear
He'll use his fortune and his wits.
So never fear

Cross the street
Or cross the sea
Annie, sweet
We guarantee
That you won't be an orphan...
No, you won't be an orphan for long!


Grace and the servants:
Tomorrow morning it begins
You're with a man who always wins
Trust him and he'll prove
Mountains easily move
Oh, you won't be an orphan...
No, you won't be an orphan for long!


11.YOU'RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE
Healy:
Hey, hobo man
Hey, Dapper Dan
You've both got your style
But Brother,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Your clothes may be
Beau Brummelly
They stand out a mile,
But Brother,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Who cares what they're wearing
On Main Street,
Or Saville Row,
It's what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe that matters!

So, Senator,
So, Janitor,
So long for a while
Remember,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Healy:
(spoken)
Ah, the lovely Boylan Sisters

Boylan Sisters:
Doo doodle-oo doo
Doo doodle-oo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Your clothes may be
Beau Brummelly
They stand out a mile
But, bother
You're never fully dressed
You're never dressed
Without an

Connie Boylan:
S-

Bonnie Boylan:
M-

Ronnie Boylan:
I-

Connie Boylan:
L-

All Three:
E. Smile darn ya smile.

Healy:
Who cares what they're wearing
On Main Street,
Or Saville Row,
It's what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe that matters...

[FADE]

Tessie:
(spoken)
So, for all of the "Hours of Smiles" Family, this is Bert Healy
saying...
(singing)
Hey hobo man,
Hey Dapper Dan,
You've both got your style

All Orphans:
But brother, you're never fully dressed
Without a smile
Your clothes may be Beau Brummelly
They stand out a mile
But brother you're never fully dressed
Without a smile

July:
(spoken)
Who cares what they're wearing on Main
Street of Saville Row
It's what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe.

Molly:
That matters

Tessie:
(spoken)
Ah. the lovely Boylan Sisters.

Duffy, Kate and Pepper
Doo doodle-oo doo
Doo doodle-oo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo

All Orphans:
So, Senator, so, janitor
So long for a while
Remember you're never fully dressed
Though you may wear the best
You're never fully dressed without a
Smile
Smile
Smile
Smile darn ya, smile!


12.TOMORROW (REPRISE)
Annie:
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
Till there's none!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

Ikes:
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow

Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Perkins and Ikes:
Just thinking about
Tomorrow

Annie, Perkins, and Ikes:
Clears away the cobwebs
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

Roosevelt:
(spoken)
Solo for the President!
(Singing)
When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin
And grin, and say...

All:
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

You're always a day away
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow
Tomorrow
You're only a day away!


13.SOMETHING WAS MISSING
Warbucks:
I've made me a fortune
That fortune made ten
Been headlined
And profiled
Again and again
But something was missing
I never quite knew
That something was someone but who?

My speeches are greeted
With thunderous acclaim
At two universities
Bearing my name
Yes, something was missing
Each time i got through
That something was someone but who?

Who could that someone be?
How could she make it known?
Who would need me for me?
Need me for me alone?

The world was my oyster
But where was the pearl?
Who dreamed I could find it
In one little girl
Yes something was missing
But dreams can come true
That something is no one but you.

Who would need me for me
Need me for me alone
The world was my oyster
But where was the pearl
Who'd dream I would find it
In one little girl
Yes, something was missing
But dreams do come true
That something is no one but you!


14.I DONT NEED ANYTHING BUT YOU
Warbucks and Annie:
Together at last!
Together for ever!
We're tying a knot,
They never can sever!

Warbucks:
I don't need sunshine now,
To turn my skies at blue

Warbucks and Annie:
I don't need anything but you!

Warbucks:
You've wrapped me around
That cute little finger.
You've made life a song,
You've made me the singer!

Annie:
And what's the bathtub tune
You always "Bu-Bu-Boo?"

Warbucks:
Bu-Bu-Bu
Anything but you

Annie:
Yesterday was plain awful

Warbucks:
You can say that again

Annie:
Yesterday was plain awful

Warbucks:
But that's

Annie:
Not now

Warbucks and Annie:
That's then

Annie:
I'm poor as a mouse,

Warbucks:
I'm richer than Midas.

Warbucks and Annie:
But nothing on earth
Could ever divide us!
And if tomorrow,
I'm an apple seller, too
I don't need anything but you!

All:
They're two of a kind
The happiest pair now
Like Fred and Adelle, they're floating
On air now
And what's the title of the dream
That's just come true

Warbucks:
I don't need anything

Annie:
Anything

All:
Anything
I don't need anything
But you



15.ANNIE
All (Servants):
Annie
Annie
Annie
Everything's humming now
Annie
Annie
Good times are coming now
Since you came our way
It's Christmas, Christmas everyday
We dismiss
Bad times, sad times
Now they're all yesterday news
Since Annie kicked out the blues

Annie
Annie
Annie
Look what you've done for us
Annie
Annie
Annie
Turned on the sun for us

Grace:
Have they sent the cheese

Drake:
Yes and ice camemberts and bries

Grace:
Judge Brandeis

All:
Annie
Annie
You filled our life with a song


16.NEW DEAL FOR CHRISTMAS
Warbucks:
I know the Depression's depressing

Grace:
The carols are stilled
The stored aren't filled

Warbucks:
And the windows are minus the dressing

Grace:
The children don't grin
The Santa's are thin

Grace and Warbucks:
And I've heard a terrible rumour
No goodwill no cheer

Warbucks:
But we'll get a new deal for Christmas
This year

Annie and Orphans:
The snowflakes are frighting of falling

Molly:
And oh, what a fix
No peppermint sticks!

Warbucks:
And all through the land folks are bawling

Grace:
And filled with despair
'Cause cupboards are bare

Warbucks:
But Santa's got brand new assistants
There's nothing to fear
They're bringing a new deal deal for Christmas
This year.

Servants:
Bong, bong, bong, bong
Bong, bong, bong, bong

Roosevelt:
On Farley and Perkins
On Ikes and Wallace
On Monganthau and Cummings.

All:
Fill our pockets with dollars

Roosevelt:
On Roper and Swanson

Roosevelt and Warbucks:
Get along Cordell Hull

Orphans:
Get along giddy up

Men:
Call your committee up

Women:
Build every city up

All:
Cheer every kiddy up
Fill every stocking with laughter
We haven't got room for any more gloom
Let's ring every bell from it's rafter

Warbucks:
And chime cross the land

Annie:
Tomorrow's at hand

Warbucks:
(spoken)
Those happy days that we were promised.

Roosevelt:
Are finally here

All:
We're getting a new deal for Christmas
We're getting a new deal for Christmas
We're getting a new deal for Christmas
We're getting a new deal for Christmas
Christmas
This year!


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