Carousel movie - ACT 1 lyrics

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Freed from labor, mill girls joyously meet their boy friends at an amusement<br>

park (Prologue: Carousel Waltz).Among them are the effervescent Carrie and <br>

the moody Julie, who infuriates Mrs. Mullin, the carousel owner, by arousing <br>

the interest of her barker (and lover, we infer), Billy. In the ensuing quarrel,<br>

Billy is fired.<br>

Carrie thinks Julie is attracted to Billy (You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan)<br>

and fittingly chooses this as the moment to reveal that she, too, has a beau <br>

(Mister Snow).<br>

Billy returns, chases Carrie off, and romances Julie (If I Loved You).<br>

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Two months later, Julie and Billy are married and living with Julie's cousin <br>

Nettie. Preparing for that evening's clambake, the girls and boys indulge in<br>

a bit of gender scuffling, then, with Nettie presiding, celebrate the erotic<br>

liberation of spring (Give It To 'Em Good, Carrie.../June Is Bustin' Out All Over.)<br>

Julie confides toCarrie he marital problems: Billy is out of work and angry.<br>

He has even hit Julie. Carrie's news is happier - Mister Snow and she are <br>

engaged. The eavesdropping girls are thrilled, not least when Snow himself <br>

shows up (Mister Snow reprise). Snow and Carrie look foward to married life: <br>

a big family and a thriving business in canned sardines (When The Children <br>

Are Asleep).<br>

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Whalers on the shore leave pile into a waterfront dive (Blow High, Blow Low) <br>

and get into a brawl. One whaler, the infinitely sleazy Jigger, tries to<br>

interest Billy in robbery, which they can pull off during the clambake.<br>

Billy is leery - but then Julie tells him she is pregnant. <br>

Overjoyed at the thought of fatherhood as he walks along the beach <br>

(Soliloquy), Billy decides to turn thief with Jigger after all.<br>

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Nettie, Billy and Julie, Carrie and Mister Snow, Jigger and the rest of the<br>

Gang sail off to the clambake.<br>

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