Barnum movie - Black And White lyrics
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Charity: May the 7th, 1851 (Chorus echo)<br>
Day of days for Bridgeport’s favorite son (echo)<br>
(Chorus: ohhhh) Living whales he sent to Hades (Chorus gasps)<br>
Likewise Swedish singing ladies<br>
And the local clockworks he will run (Chorus echo)<br>
Gone those wooly schemes that filled his head (Chorus echo)<br>
Farewell Kelly green and cherry red (Chorus echo)<br>
No more, step right up and see him<br>
Barnum’s closed his last museum <br>
And he’s gonna live his life instead (With Chorus)<br>
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Singer: Black and white<br>
The future’s rosy living black and white<br>
Keep both feet on the ground<br>
Don’t let those day dreams spin you round<br>
See things the way they are<br>
You’re gonna tumble if you fly too far<br>
Stay low and hold on tight <br>
Living black and white<br>
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Charity: He could run the clockworks Barnum found<br>
In two months he’d run it in the ground<br>
Purchased then 500 shovels<br>
Said men mustn’t live in huddles<br>
And a new utopia I will found<br>
Planned a very modern model town<br>
Elevated roads to stroll around<br>
Grew so high it made you groggy<br>
Built on land a trifle soggy<br>
So as it rose up it started down (echo: down down down down)<br>
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Singer: Black and white<br>
He built a city that was black and white<br>
It took no end of spunk<br>
And looked quite splendid as it sunk<br>
Here comes another lurch<br>
There goes the depot and the Baptist church<br>
As they slipped out of sight<br>
They were black and white<br>
So long, ta ta goodnight<br>
Bye bye black and white<br>
Oh ooh oh oh ooh oh oh ooh oh oh <br>
Oh yeah<br>
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(Up tempo) Chorus: Heard about your city what a shame<br>
But the truth is politics’ your game<br>
Kissing babies making speeches<br>
Posing with the local beeches<br>
Fun, respectability and fame<br>
Charity: You could be an alder man, no wait (echo: no wait)<br>
Congressman I mean U.S not state (echo: not state)<br>
Mayor! Oh that’s easy pickin’s <br>
Senator! Oh what the dickens (echo: senator)<br>
Charity and Chorus: Why not hang a presidential slate <br>
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Singer: Black and white<br>
He’s playing politics in black and white<br>
Cold truth and good hard facts<br>
Give all that razzmatazz the axe<br>
No bunting in the streets<br>
You’ll talk of budget cuts and ballot sheets<br>
Statistics day and night<br>
Running black and white<br>
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Barnum: Black and white<br>
I’m runnin’ politics in black and white<br>
Cold truth and good hard facts<br>
Give all that razzmatazz the axe<br>
No bunting in the streets<br>
I talk of budget cuts and ballot sheets<br>
Statistics day and night…<br>
(Spoken) Chairy, I’m losing ‘em. <br>
You gotta let me bring some colour into this campaign or they’ll beat me<br>
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Charity (Spoken): Very well, Taylor. Go ahead!<br>
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Chorus: Black and white<br>
He’s had his fill of living black and white<br>
So long ta ta good night <br>
Bye bye bye bye black and <br>
White!!<br>
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[Thanks to Antony for lyrics]<br>
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