Carousel movie - Real Nice Clambake lyrics

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Song by Rodgers & Hammerstein<br /><br>

Nettie: Dunno as I should've ate those last four dozen clams!<br>

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A girl: Now look here, Orin Peasley, you just keep your hands in your own pockets if you're so cold!<br>

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All:<br>

This was a real nice clambake,<br>

We're mighty glad we came.<br>

The vittles we et<br>

Were good, you bet,<br>

The company was the same.<br>

Our hearts are warm, our bellies are full,<br>

And we are feeling prime.<br>

This was a real nice clambake,<br>

And we all had a real good time.<br>

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Nettie:<br>

Fust come codfish chowder<br>

Cooked in iron kettles,<br>

Onions floating on the top,<br>

Curlin' up in pettals.<br>

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Julie:<br>

Throw'd in ribbons of salted pork,<br>

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Men:<br>

An old New England trick.<br>

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Julie:<br>

And lapped it all up with a clamshell,<br>

Tied onto a bayberry stick.<br>

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All:<br>

Oh, this was a real nice clambake,<br>

We're mighty glad we came.<br>

The vittles we et<br>

Were good, you bet,<br>

The company was the same.<br>

Our hearts are warm, our bellies are full,<br>

And we are feeling prime.<br>

This was a real nice clambake,<br>

And we all had a real good time.<br>

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Enoch:<br>

Remember when we raked them red hot lobsters<br>

Out of the driftwood fire?<br>

They sizzled and crackled and sputtered a song<br>

Fittin' for an angels' choir.<br>

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Girls:<br>

Fittin' for an angels,<br>

Fittin' for an angels,<br>

Fittin' for an angels choir.<br>

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Nettie:<br>

We slit 'em down the back and peppered 'em good,<br>

And doused 'em in melted butter.<br>

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Carrie:<br>

Then we tore away the claws and cracked 'em with our teeth<br>

Cuz we weren't in the mood to putter.<br>

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Girls:<br>

Fittin' for an angels,<br>

Fittin' for an angels,<br>

Fittin' for an angels choir.<br>

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A guy:<br>

Then at last come the clams.<br>

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Guys:<br>

Steamed under rockweed and poppin' from their shells.<br>

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All:<br>

Just how many of 'em galloped down our gullets,<br>

We couldn't say ourselves, oh,<br>

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This was a real nice clambake,<br>

We're mighty glad we came.<br>

The vittles we et<br>

Were good, you bet,<br>

The company was the same.<br>

Our hearts are warm, our bellies are full,<br>

And we are feeling prime.<br>

This was a real nice clambake,<br>

And we all had a real good time.<br>

We said it 'afore and we'll say it again,<br>

We all had a real good time!<br>

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