Carousel, Act I - June Is Bustin' Out All Over (音乐剧《旋转木马》，第一幕 - 六月处处生机盎然)

"Women (spoken)

Give it to ’em good, Carrie,

Give it to ’em good!

Carrie (sung)

Get away, you no-account nothin’s

With yer silly jokes and prattle!

If y’packed all yer brains in a butterfly’s head

They’d still hev room to rattle.

Women (spoken)

Give it to ’em good, Carrie,

Give it to ’em good!

Tell ’em somethin’ that’ll l’arn ’em!

Carrie (sung)

Get away, you roustabout riff-raff

With yer bellies full of grog.

If y’packed all yer brains in a pollywog’s

head,

He’d never even grow to be a frog!

Women (sung)

The pollywog’d never be a frog!

(spoken)

That’ll l’arn ’em,

Darn ’em!

Men (sung)

Now jest a minute, ladies,

You got no call to fret.

We only asked perlitely

If you was ready yet.

We’d kinda like this clambake

To get an early start,

And wanted fer to tell you

We went and done our part.

Basses

Look at them clams!

Baritones

Been diggin’ ’em since sunup!

Basses

Look at them clams!

Second Tenors

All ready fer the boats.

Basses

Look at them clams!

First Tenors

We’re all wore out and done up –

All Men

And what’s more, we’re hungry as goats!

All Women

You’ll get no drinks er vittles

Till we get across the bay,

So pull in yer belts and load them boats

And let’s get underway.

The sooner we sail, the sooner we start

The clambake ’cross the bay!

(Nettie Fowler enters, carrying a tray piled

high with doughnuts.)

Nettie Fowler (spoken)

Here, boys! Here’s some doughnuts and

coffee. Fall to!

Men (as they fall to, speeches overlapping)

Doughnuts, hooray...! That’s our Nettie...! Yer

heart’s in the right place, Nettie...!

Lemme in there...! Quit yer shovin’...!

Nettie (spoken)

Here now, don’t jump at it like you was a lotta

animals in a menag’ry!

A Woman (spoken)

Nettie...! After us jest tellin’ ’em...! Watchere

doin’ that fer...?

Nettie (spoken)

They been diggin’ clams since five this

mornin’ – I see ’em myself, down on the

beach.

A Woman (spoken)

After the way they been pesterin’ and

annoyin’ you...!

Carrie (spoken)

Nettie, yer a soft-hearted ninny!

Nettie (spoken)

Oh, y’can’t blame ’em. First clambake o’ the

year they’re always like this. It’s like unlockin’

a door, and all the crazy notions they kep’

shet up fer the winter come whoopin’ out

into the sunshine.

This year’s jest like ev’ry other.

(sung)

March went out like a lion,

A-whippin’ up the water in the bay.

Then April cried

And stepped aside,

And along come pretty little May!

May was full of promises,

But she didn’t keep ’em quick enough fer

some,

And a crowd of Doubtin’ Thomases

Was predictin’ that the summer’d never

come!

Men (sung)

But it’s comin’, by gum!

Y’ken feel it come!

Y’ken feel it in yer heart,

Y’ken see it in the ground!

Girls (sung)

Y’ken hear it in the trees,

Y’ken smell it in the breeze –

All

Look around, look around, look around!

Nettie

June is bustin’ out all over!

All over the meadow and the hill!

Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes,

And the rompin’ river pushes

Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside a mill.

All

June is bustin’ out all over!

Nettie

The feelin’ is gettin’ so intense

That the young Virginia creepers

Hev been huggin’ the bejeepers

Outa all the mornin’-glories on the fence!

Because it’s June!

Women and Men

June – June – June –

All

Jest because it’s June – June – June!

Nettie

Fresh and alive and gay and young,

June is a love song, sweetly sung.

Women and Men

June is bustin’ out all over!

First Man

The saplin’s are bustin’ out with sap!

First Woman

Love has found my brother, Junior!

Second Man

And my sister’s even lunier!

Second Woman

And my Ma is gettin’ kittenish with Pap!

All

June is bustin’ out all over!

Nettie

To ladies the men are payin’ court.

Lotsa ships are kept at anchor

Jest because the captains hanker

Fer a comfort they ken only get in port!

All

Because it’s June!

June – June – June –

Jest because it’s June – June – June!

Nettie

June makes the bay look bright and new,

Sails gleamin’ white on sunlit blue.

Carrie

June is bustin’ out all over!

The ocean is full of Jacks and Jills.

With her little tail a-swishin’

Ev’ry lady fish is wishin’

That a male would come and grab her by

the gills!

All

June is bustin’ out all over!

Nettie

The sheep aren’t sleepin’ any more.

All the rams that chase the ewe sheep

Are determined there’ll be new sheep,

And the ewe sheep aren’t even keepin’ score!

All

On accounta it’s June!

June – June – June –

Jest because it’s June – June – June!"