Lestat The Musical movie - Welcome To The New World lyrics

rate me

What more could one expect

Of something new?

A feast of saints and sinners

A home spun web of old beginnings,

This new world holds the most collective stew

For what indeed

Could match this potpourri.

Here the immigrant is plentiful,

the pagan Indian colorful,

This America seemed the ideal spot for me.

The German and the Irish flock here

With hope and family,

The melody of language fills the streets,

Like myself, there are the French

Who bring their old world common sense

While the Spanish bring their fine nobility.

Here the tribal garb, the manners

Of the free people of colour

Seems strange to me

When others are enslaved.

This New Orleans, this melting pot

Is overflowing with cast offs

Who've been dragged or freely came across the waves.

And here there's cheer in the streets as they shout out the windows

'Welcome to the new world

Of the Cajun and the Creole.

Welcome to the new World.

You preening puffed up Europeans

Shake loose your pious shackles

For some good old superstition.

Welcome to the new world.

For a wealth at new beginnings.'

This port is filled with sailors

That on drunkenness and leachery

Who captor tavern filled with whores and rum

While priests run rampant blessing

Any malcontent confessor.

It's apparent they're outnumbered by the scum.

The poet and the artist

Find these mean streets most romantic,

Enchanted by the bourgeois

It's a civilized debauchery

A society built on sorcery

Who could inspire the most illiterate of beasts

And here's there's cheer in the streets as they shout out the windows

'Welcome to the new world

Of the Cajun and the Creole.

Welcome to The New World.

You preening puffed up Europeans

Shake loose your pious shackles

For some good old superstition.

And welcome to the New World

For a wealth at new beginnings.'

So I think for me a mansion

On some reputable plantation

Would well besuit this nouvelle pioneer.

For I'm sold upon this city

And the grand old Mississippi

and the variations of cuisine that are here

(Laughter)

(Bell tolling)