Prelude And The Sound Of Music

Overture And Preludium (Dixit Dominus)

Morning Hymn And Alleluia

Maria

I Have Confidence

Sixteen Going On Seventeen

My Favorite Things

Do-Re-Mi

The Sound Of Music

The Lonely Goatherd

So Long, Farewell

Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Something Good

Processional And Maria

Edelweiss

Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise)

No Way To Stop It

How Can Love Survive?

An Ordinary Couple

MARIA:
My day in the hills
Has come to an end, I know.
A star has come out
To tell me it's time to go.
But deep in the dark green shadows,
There are voices that urge me to stay.
So I pause and I wait and I listen,
For one more sound,
For one more lovely thing
That the hills might say!
The hills are alive
With the sound of music,
With songs they have sung,
For a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart,
With the sound of music.
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.
My heart wants to beat like the wings
Of the birds that rise from the lake
To the trees.
My heart wants to sigh
Like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze,
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To sing through the night,
Like a lark who is learning to pray.
I go to the hills
When my heart is lonely.
I know I will hear
What I heard before.
My heart will be blessed
With the sound of music
And I'll sing once more.

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Maria
Berthe: exactly what I say (starts singing) she climbs a tree and
scrapes her knee her dress has got a tear
Sophia: she waltzes on her way to mass and whistles on the stair
Berthe: and underneath her wimple she has curlers in her hair
Catherine: I've even heard her singing in the Abbey
Agatha: she's always late for chapel
Sophia: but her penitence is real
Berthe: she's always late for every thing
Catherine: except for every meal
Berthe: I hate to have to say it but I very firmly feel
All nuns except for Margeretta and mother: Maria's not an asset to the
abbey
Margeretta: I'd like to say a word in her behalf
Mother: say it sister Margeretta
Margeretta: Maria makes me laugh
(everyone laughs except mother and Berthe and looks at every one with a
ready to kill look)
Mother: how do you solve a problem like Maria, how do you catch a cloud
and pin it down
Margeretta: how do you find a word that means Maria?
Catherine and Agatha: a flibbertigibbet
Sophia: a will-o'-the-wisp
Berthe: a clown
Mother: many a things you know you'd like to tell her many a thing she
ought to understand
Berthe: but how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
Mother: how do you keep a wave upon the sand
Margeretta: oh how do you solve a problem like Maria?
Mother: how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand
Agatha: when I'm with her I'm confused out of focus and bemuse and I
never know exactly where I am
Sophia: unpredictable as weather
Catherine: she's as flighty as a feather
Margeretta: she's a darling
Berthe: she's a demon
Margeretta: she's a lamb
Agatha: she'd out pester any pest drive a hornet from it's nest
Sophia: she can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
Margeretta: she is gentle she is wild
Catherine: she's a riddle she's a child
Berthe: she's a head ache
Margeretta: she's an angel
Mother: she's a girl
All: (puts hand up like praying) how do you solve a problem like Maria?
how do catch a cloud and pin it down? how do you find a word that
means Maria?
Catherine and Agatha: a flibbertigibbet
Sophia and Margeretta: a will-o'-the-wisp
Berthe: a clown
(mother puts her hands up then back in her robe and starts walking and
everyone starts following as a group)
All: many a thing you know you'd like to tell her many a thing she
ought to understand
Mother: but how do you make her stay?
Berthe: and listen to all you say
Margeretta: how do you keep a wave upon the sand
All: oh how do you solve a problem like Maria
(door slams as Maria comes running in gets a drink of water and starts
running off but stops in front of them and rolls her eyes she realizes
that she is already late)
All: how do you do you hold a moon beam in your hand

[Thank to Nicole Miller for correct lyrics.]

MARIA:
What will this day be like?
I wonder.
What will my future be?
I wonder.
It could be so exciting,
To be out in the world,
To be free!
My heart should be wildly rejoicing.
Oh, what's the matter with me?
I've always longed for adventure,
To do the things I've never dared.
Now here I'm pacing adventure
Then why am I so scared?
A captain with seven children...
What's so fearsome about that?
Oh, I must stop these doubts,
All these worries.
If I don't I just know I'll turn back!
I must dream of the things I am seeking.
I am seeking the courage I lack.
The courage to serve them with reliance,
Face my mistakes without defiance.
Show them I'm worthy
And while I show them
I'll show me!
So, let them bring on all their problems,
I'll do better than my best.
I have confidence
They'll put me to the test!
But I'll make them see
I have confidence in me.
Somehow I will impress them.
I will be firm, but kind.
And all those children,
Heaven bless them
They will look up to me
And mind me!
With each step I am more certain,
Everything will turn out fine.
I have confidence,
The world can all be mine!
They'll have to agree
I have confidence in me.
I have confidence in sunshine,
I have confidence in rain.
I have confidence that spring will come again!
Besides, which you see
I have confidence in me.
Strength doesn't lie in numbers.
Strength doesn't lie in wealth,
Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers,
When you wake up, wake up!
It can be all I trust I leave my heart to,
All I trust becomes my own!
I have confidence in confidence alone.
I have confidence in confidence alone!
Besides, which you see,
I have confidence in me!

ROLF:
You wait little girl on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life little girl is an empty page
That men will want to write on.

LIESL:
To write on.

ROLF:
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and roues and cads
Will offer you food and wine
Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken
You need someone older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I'll take care of you.

LIESL:
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe
I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?
Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken
I need someone older and wiser
Telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I'll depend on you.

MARIA:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into Springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into Springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.

MARIA:
Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with
CHILD:
ABC
MARIA:
When you sing you begin with
Do Re Mi
CHILDREN:
Do Re Mi
MARIA:
Do Re Mi
The first three notes just happen to be
Do Re Mi
CHILDREN:
Do Re Mi
MARIA:
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti
Let's see if I can make it easier
Do - a deer a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long long way to run
Sol- a needle pulling thread
La - a note to follow so
Ti - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do
Oh Oh Oh
MARIA AND CHILDREN:
Do - a deer a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long long way to run
Sol- a needle pulling thread
La - a note to follow so
Ti - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do
CHILDREN:
A deer a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long long way to run
MARIA AND CHILDREN:
Sol- a needle pulling thread
La - a note to follow so
Ti - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do
MARIA:
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do Sol Do!
Now children, Do Re Mi Fa Sol and so on are natur'ly the tunes we use
to build a song once you have these notes in your head you can sing
a million diff'rent tune by mixin' them up, like this:
Sol Do La Fa Mi Do Re
Can you do that?
CHILDREN:
Sol Do La Fa Mi Do Re
MARIA:
Sol Do La Ti Do Re Do
CHILDREN:
Sol Do La Ti Do Re Do
MARIA AND CHILDREN:
Now let's put it all together
Sol Do La Fa Mi Do Re
Sol Do La Ti Do Re Do
MARIA:
Good!
CHILD:
But it doesn't mean anything...
MARIA:
So we put in words,
One word for ev'ry note, like this:
When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything.
Together!
MARIA AND CHILDREN:
When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything
Do - a deer a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long long way to run
Sol- a needle pulling thread
La - a note to follow so
Ti - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti
Do Do Ti La Sol Fa Mi Re
Do Mi Mi Mi Sol Sol
Re Fa Fa La Ti Ti
Do Mi Mi Mi Sol Sol
Re Fa Fa La Ti Ti
When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything
Do - a deer a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long long way to run
Sol- a needle pulling thread
La - a note to follow so
Ti - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to
Sol Do La Fa Mi Do Re
Sol Do La Fa La Sol Fa Ti Re Ti Do
Sol Do

CHILDREN:
The hills are alive
With the sound of music,
With songs they have sung,
For a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart,
With the sound of music.
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.

My heart wants to beat like the wings
Of the birds that rise from the lake
To the trees.
My heart wants to sigh
Like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze,
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To sing through the night,
Like a lark who is learning to pray.

CAPTAIN:
I go to the hills
When my heart is lonely.
I know I will hear
What I heard before.
My heart will be blessed
With the sound of music
And I'll sing once more.

MARIA AND THE CHILDREN:
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd
Layee odl, layee odl-oo
Folks in a town that was quite remote heard
Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
Lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard
Layee odl, layee odl-oo
Oho layee odllee-oo
Oho layee odl ay!
Oho layee odllee-oo
Hododlleeoay!
A prince on the bridge of a castle moat heard
Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
Men on a boat with a load to tote heard
Layee odl, layee odl-oo
Men in the mists of a chapel dote heard
Layee odl, layee odl-oo
Men drinking beer with the foam afloat heard
Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo

[Cough cough!]

One little girl in a pale pink coat heard
Layee odl, layee odl-oo
She yodeled back to the lonely goatherd
Layee odl, layee odl-oo
Soon her mama with a gleaming gloat heard
Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
What a duet for a girl and goatherd
Layee odl, layee odl-oo

Hmm hmm hmm hmm
Hmm hmm hmm hmm
Ode layee
Ode layee-ee
Ode layee
Oh Oh Oh Oh layee odl layee-oo
Oh oh layee odl lay
Oh Oh Oh Oh layee odl layee-oo
Layee odllee-o hododlleeoay!

One little girl in a pale pink coat heard
Layee odl, layee odl layoo-oo
She yodeled back to the lonely goatherd
Layee odl, layee odl-o
Soon her mama with a gleaming gloat heard
Layee odl, layee odl lay mmm mmm
What a duet for a girl and goatherd
Layee odl, layee odl-o
Happy are they layee odllayee-o oh layee odlayee layee-o
Soon their duet will becoma a trio
Layee odl, layee odl layee-o
Ode lay-ee
Ode lay-ee
Ode lay-ee-ee
Ode lay-ee
Odllayee odllay
Odllayee odllay
Odllayee odllay
Odllayee odllayee odlayee odlayee odlay!
Wooo!

THE CHILDREN:
There's a sad sort of clanking
From the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too.
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping up to say cukoo!
Cukoo! Cukoo!
Regretfully they tell us

But firmly they compel us
To say goodbye to you.

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodnight
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Adeiu
Adeiu Adeiu
To yieu and yieu and yieu

So long
Farewell
Au 'voire
Aufwiedersehn
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye

Goodbye!

I'm glad to go I cannot tell a lie
I flit I float
I fleetly flee I fly

The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye--

Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...

MOTHER ABBESS:
Climb every mountain
Search high and low
Follow every byway
Every path you know

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream

A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream

A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream

MARIA:
Perhaps I had a wicked childhood
Perhaps I had a miserable youth
But somewhere in my wicked miserable past
There must have been a moment of truth
For here you are standing there loving me
Whether or not you should
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good.

CAPTAIN:
For here you are standing there loving me
Whether or not you should

MARIA:
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
MARIA AND CAPTAIN:
Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
MARIA:
So somewhere in my youth
CAPTAIN:
Or childhood
MARIA:
I must have done something
MARIA AND CAPTAIN:
Something good...

ORGAN, ORCHESTRA AND NUN'S CHORUS
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a clown and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibberti gibbet!
A willo' the wisp!
A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her,
Many a thing she ought to understand.
But how do you make her say,
And listen to all you say?
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

CAPTAIN:
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss,Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.

CAPTAIN, MARIA, THE CHILDREN AND CHORUS:
Small and white clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss,Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.

CHORUS:
A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live
Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream...

[She]
You dear attractive dewy-eyed idealist,
Today you have to learn to be a realist.

[He]
You may be bent on doing deed of daring due,
But up against a shark, what can a herring do?

[She]
Be wise, compromise.

[He]
Compromise, and be wise!

[She]
Let them think you're on their side, be noncommittal.

[He]
I will not bow my head to the men I despise!

[Other He]
You won't have to bow your head to stoop a little.

[She]
Why not learn to put your faith and your reliance,
On an obvious and simple fact of science?

Refrain

[She]
A crazy planet full of crazy people,
Is somersaulting all around the sky.
And everytime it turns another somersault,
Another day goes by.
And there's no way to stop it,
No, there's no way to stop it.
No, you can't stop it even if you tried.
So, I'm not going to worry,
No, I'm not going to worry,
Everytime I see another day go by.

[He]
While somersaulting at a cockeyed angle,
We make a cockeyed circle 'round the sun.
And when we circle back to where we started from,
Another year has run.

[Both]
And there's no way to stop it,
No, there's no way to stop it,
If the earth wants to roll around the sun.
You're a fool if you worry.
You're a fool if you worry,
Over anything but little number one.

[He]
That's you!

[She]
That's I!

[He]
And I!

[Other He]
And me!

[He]
That all absorbing character.

[She]
That fastinating creature.

[Other He]
That super special feature,

[All]
Me!

[He]
So every star on every whirling planet,
And every constellation in the sky,
Revolves around the center of the universe,
That lovely thing called, I.

[All]
And there's no way to stop it.
No, there's no way to stop it,
And I know, though I cannot tell you why (sigh).
Just as long as I'm living,
Just as long as I'm living,
There'll be nothing else as wonderful as I.
I! I! I! Nothing else as wonderful as I!

[She]
Oh Max!

[He]
In all the famous love affairs
The lovers have to struggle.
In garret rooms away upstairs
The lovers starve and snugggle.
They're famous for misfortune which
They seem tohave no fear of,
While lovers who are very rich
You very seldom hear of.

[She]
No little shack do you share with me,
We do not flee from a mortgagee,
Nary a care in the world have we,

[He]
How can love survive?

[She]
You're fond of bonds and you own a lot.
I have a plane and a diesel yacht,

[He]
Plenty of nothing you haven't got!

[Both]
How can love survive?

[She]
No rides for us on the top of a bus
In the face of the freezing breezes

[He]
You reach your goals in your comfy old Rolls
Or in one of your Mercedes-es!

[She]
Far, very far off the beam are we,
Quaint and bizarre as a team are we,
Two millionaires with a dream are we,
We're keeping romance alive.

[Both]
Two millionaries with a dream are we,
We'll make our love survive...

[She]
No little cold water flat have we,
Warmed by the glow of insolvency,

[He]
Up to your necks in security.
How can love survive?

[She]
How can I show what I feel for you?
I cannot go out and steal for you.
I cannot die like Camille for you.
How can love survive?

[He]
You millionaires with financial affairs
Are too busy for simple pleasure.
When you are poor it is toujours l'amour,
For l'amour all the poor have leisure!

[She]
Caught in our gold platted chains are we,
Lost in our wealthy domains are we.
Trapped by our capital gains are we,
But we'll keep romaince alive.

[Max]
Trapped by our capital gains are we,

[Both]
We'll make our love
survive!

An ordinary couple
Is all we'll ever be,
For all I want of living
Is to keep you close to me,
To laugh and weep together
While time goes on its flight,
To kiss you ev'ry morning
An to kiss you ev'ry night.
We'll meet our daily problems
And rest when day is done,
Our arms around each other
In the fading sun.
An ordinary couple,
Across the years we'll ride,
Our arms around each other
Our children by our side;
Our arms around each other.