Notes: Just a quick little thing that I love because a) it is all one line, with nobody singing at the same time as anyone else and b) I hardly had to change any of the lyrics. Set near the middle of film three when Merry's recovering in the houses of healing and Pippin comes along to visit him and tell him what Minas Tirith is like. (It didn't actually happen in the film but probably did at some point.)
I can just see the changes of expression in Pip's little face while he's singing this ;)
Everything's up to date in Minas Tirith
I got to Minas Tirith on a Frid'y
By Saturday I learned a thing or two
For up to then I didn't have an id'y
Of what the modern world was coming to!
I counted twenty horses walking round the town
Almost every time I took a walk.
And there were lots of meetings of the finest lords on earth,
Where only Denathor was allowed to talk.
What next?
Everything's up to date in Minas Tirith
They've gone about as far as they can go!
They went and built a city that's seven levels high,
About as high as a city orta grow.
Everything's like a dream in Minas Tirith,
It's better than a magic firework show!
You can go collect some food from stores whenever you want to eat
With every kind of comfort every house is all complete.
They've even got a rat catcher who lives right in the street!
They've gone about as far as they can go,
(Yes sir!)
They've gone about as far as they can go!
Everything's up to date in Minas Tirith
They've gone about as far as they can go!
They got a big theatre they call a dancing house.
Where Faramir said his brother used to go.
One of the girls was fat and pink and pretty,
As round above as she was round below.
I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel,
But later in the second act when she began to peel
She proved that everything she had was absolutely real!
She went about as far as she could go,
(Yes sir!)
She went about as far as she could go!
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Frid'y-Friday
Id'y-idea.
Theatre-(pronounce)theATEer
With a strong…Oklahoman?…accent. Because otherwise the rhyme doesn't work.
Wo0t for the rat catcher!