Ode to Titanic: A musical experience
Chapter Two
The scene changes to the deck. The passengers are waving good-bye to the crowd below. Jack and Fabrizio run up to the rail. Jack immediately begins to wave and yell good-bye to the Southampton crowd.
"You know somebody?" Fabrizio asked, confused at why his friend was waving goodbye to a group of people they didn't know.
"Of course not! That's not the point!" Jack continued to wave.
"Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Fabrizio kisses his hand and blows the kiss to the crowd. "I will never forget you!"
Jack: There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall and the bells in the steeple too and up in the nursery an absurd little bird Is popping out to say "cuckoo"
Fabrizio: Cuckoo, cuckoo
Jack: Regretfully they tell us cuckoo, cuckoo
But firmly they compel us cuckoo, cuckoo
To say goodbye . . .
Fabrizio: Cuckoo!
Passengers: . . . to you
Jack, Fabrizio, and passengers: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
Fabrizio: I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
Jack, Fabrizio and passengers: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Passenger:(pushes between Jack and Fabrizio): Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
Jack, Fabrizio, and passengers: So long, farewell, au revoir, auf Wiedersehen
Jack: I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
Jack, Fabrizio, and passengers: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Fabrizio: I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye -- Goodbye!
Jack: I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
Cora (yawning): The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Southampton Crowd: Goodbye!
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We have seen how Rise had decorated the "Millionaire Suite" with several paintings such as Monet, Degas and Picasso. Now we are focused on the bow where Jack and Fabrizio have headed. They lean far over and look down at the sparkling ocean. Jack enthusiastically indicates to several dolphins which run in front of the ship.
Fabrizio: I can see the Statue of Liberty already. That is small of course.
Jack grins and spreads his arms .
Jack (exclaiming): I'm the king of the world!!!
He
begins to sing: Are you thinking what I'm thinking
Every little moment
Every special word
Has so much meaning that I'm feeling you're completing my world
But I've tried to say this so long
But the words don't come when you love someone
It's just too hard to say
How do I say, say
Say this to you
How do I prove my love
(How can I prove my love)
How do I say this to you
How do I prove my love
How do I say, say
Oooh
yeah
Oh Beautiful
Forstatous sky's
Forever waits of grace
For purple mountain
Majesty
For ever mult and grain
America
America
God
shed his grace on me
In crown I heard, with brotherhood
Fabrizio:
From sea to shining (America) sea
America (America)
America (America)
For beautiful
For hero's proved
He liberates
He strives
Who morn themselves
A country loved
In mercy more than life
Jack and Fabrizio:
America
(America)
America (America)
God
shed (God shed )his grace (his grace) on me
Yeah
In crown I heard with brotherhood
From sea (from sea) to shining sea (to shining sea)
America
(America)
America (America)
God
shed (God shed) his grace (his grace) on me (on me)
In crown I heard with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
Yeah
America
(America)
America (America)
America (America)
And crown (and crown)
With brotherhood (with brotherhood)
From sea to shining sea (From sea to shining sea)
America the beautiful
From sea to shining sea
The ship sails on across the ocean and slowly gets out of sight.
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Music: 1. So Long, Farewell-The Sound Of Music
2. O-Town – "America"
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