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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	A
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VILLIAM a Sen	B
NEEDLESON a Sidniduc	C
SMILER a Scheister	D
KI YI a Trader	D
GRIMGHAST a Spader	D
SARALTHIA a Love lorn Nymph	E
NELLIBRAC a Sweetun	B
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A BODY A GHOST AN UNMENTIONABLE THING SKULLS	F
HOODOOS ETC	C
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Scene a Cemetery in San Francisco	C
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Saralthia Nellibrac Grimghast	G
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SARALTHIA	H
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The red half moon is dipping to the west	G
And the cold fog invades the sleeping land	G
Lo how the grinning skulls in the level light	G
Litter the place Methinks that every skull	I
Is a most lifelike portrait of my Sen	B
Drawn by the hand of Death each fleshless pate	G
Cursed with a ghastly grin to eyes unrubbed	G
With love's magnetic ointment seems to mine	B
To smile an amiable smile like his	J
Whose amiable smile I I alone	B
Am able to distinguish from his leer	D
See how the gathering coyotes flit	G
Through the lit spaces or with burning eyes	K
Star the black shadows with a steadfast gaze	L
About my feet the poddy toads at play	A
Bulbously comfortable try to hop	M
And tumble clumsily with all their warts	N
While pranking lizards sliding up and down	B
My limbs as they were public roads impart	G
A singularly interesting chill	O
The circumstance and passion of the time	P
The cast and manner of the place the spirit	G
Of this confederate environment	G
Command the rights we come to celebrate	G
Obedient to the Inspired Hag	C
The seventh daughter of the seventh daughter	D
Who rules all destinies from Minna street	G
A dollar a destiny Here at this grave	Q
Which for my purposes thou Jack of Spades	R
To Grimghast	G
Corrupter than the thing that reeks below	C
Hast opened secretly we'll work the charm	S
Now what's the hour	D
Distant clock strikes thirteen	B
Enough hale forth the stiff	T
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Grimghast by means of a boat hook stands the coffin on end	G
in the excavation the lid crumbles exposing the remains of a	C
man	B
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Ha Master Mouldybones how fare you sir	D
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THE BODY	G
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Poorly I thank your ladyship I miss	U
Some certain fingers and an ear or two	V
There's something too gone wrong with my inside	G
And my periphery's not what it was	W
How can we serve each other you and I	X
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NELLIBRAC	C
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O what a personable man	B
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Blushes bashfully drops her eyes and twists the corner of	Y
her apron	B
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SARALTHIA	H
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Yes dear	D
A very proper and alluring male	Z
And quite superior to Lubin Rroyd	G
Who has however this distinct advantage	A2
He is alive	B2
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GRIMGHAST	G
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Missus these yer remains	C2
Was the boss singer back in '	-
And used to allers git invites to go	C
Down to Swellmont and sing at every feed	G
In t'other Villiam's time that was afore	D
The gent that you've hooked onto bought the place	D2
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THE BODY singing	C
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Down among the sainted dead	G
Many years I lay	A
Beetles occupied my head	G
Moles explored my clay	A
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There we feasted day and night	G
I and bug and beast	G
They provided appetite	G
And I supplied the feast	G
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The raven is a dicky bird	G
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SARALTHIA singing	C
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The jackal is a daisy	G
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NELLIBRAC singing	C
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The wall mouse is a worthy third	G
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A SPOOK singing	C
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But mortals all are crazy	G
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CHORUS OF SKULLS	F
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O mortals all are crazy	G
Their intellects are hazy	G
In the growing moon they shake their shoon	B
And trip it in the mazy	G
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But when the moon is waning	C
Their senses they're regaining	C
They fall to prayer and from their hair	D
Remove the straws remaining	C
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SARALTHIA	H
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That's right Rogues Gallery pray keep it up	E2
Your song recalls my Villiam's 'Auld Lang Syne '	-
What time he came and like an amorous bird	G
That struts before the female of its kind	G
Warbling to cave her down the bank piped high	X
His cracked falsetto out of reach Enough	F2
Now let's to business Nellibrac sweet child	G
St Cloacina's future devotee	G
The time is ripe and rotten gut the grip	G2
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Nellibrac brings forward a valise and takes from it five	B2
articles of clothing which one by one she lays upon the points	G
of a magic pentagram that has thoughtfully inscribed itself in	B
lines of light on the wet grass The Body holds its late lamented	G
nose	G
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NELLIBRAC singing	C
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Fragrant socks by Villiam's toes	G
Consecrated to the nose	G
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Shirt that shows the well worn track	C
Of the knuckles of his back	C
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Handkerchief with mottled stains	G
Into which he blew his brains	G
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Collar crying out for soap	H2
Prophet of the future rope	H2
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An unmentionable thing	C
It would sicken me to sing	C
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UNMENTIONABLE THING aside	G
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What I unmentionable Just you wait	G
In all the family journals of the State	G
You'll sometime see that I'm described at length	H
With supereditorial grace and strength	H
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SARALTHIA singing	C
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Throw them in the open tomb	I2
They will cause his love to bloom	I2
With an amatory boom	I2
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CHORUS OF INVISIBLE HOODOOS	G
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Hoodoo hoodoo voudou vet	G
Villiam struggles in the net	G
By the power and intent	G
Of the charm his strength is spent	G
By the virtue in each rag	C
Blessed by the Inspired Hag	C
He will be a willing victim	J2
Limp as if a donkey kicked him	K2
By this awful incantation	B
We decree his animation	B
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By the magic of our art	G
Warm the cockles of his heart	G
Villiam if alive or dead	G
Thou Saralthia shalt wed	G
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They cast the garments into the grave and push over the	H
coffin Grimghast fills up the hole Hoodoos gradually become	J2
apparent in a phosphorescent light about the grave holding one	B
another's back hair and dancing in a circle	I
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HOODOO SONG AND DANCE	G
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O we're the larrikin hoodoos	G
The chirruping lirruping hoodoos	G
We mix things up that the Fates ordain	B
Bring back the past and the present detain	B
Postpone the future and sometimes tether	D
The three and drive them abreast together	D
We rollicking frolicking hoodoos	G
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To us all things are the same as none	B
And nothing is that is under the sun	B
Seven's a dozen and never is then	B
Whether is what and what is when	B
A man is a tree and a cuckoo a cow	C
For gold galore and silver enow	B
To magical mystical hoodoos	G
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SARALTHIA	H
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What monstrous shadow darkens all the place	G
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Enter Smyler	D
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Flung like a doom athwart ha thou	H
Portentous presence art thou not the same	L2
That stalks with aspect horrible among	C
Small youths and maidens baring snaggy teeth	H
Champing their tender limbs till crimson spume	L2
Flung from thy lips in cursing God and man	B
Incarnadines the land	G
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SMYLER	D
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Thou dammid slut	G
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Exit Smyler	D
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NELLIBRAC	C
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O what a pretty man	B
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SARALTHIA	H
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Now who is next	G
Of tramps and casuals this graveyard seems	G
Prolific to a fault	G
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Enter Needleson exhaling prophetically an odor of decayed	G
eggs and actually one of unlaundried linen He darts an	B
intense regard at an adjacent marble angel and places his open	B
hand behind his ear	D
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NEEDLESON	B
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Hay	A
Exit Needleson	B
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NELLIBRAC	C
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Sweet sweet male	Z
I yearn to play at Copenhagen with him	L2
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Blushes diligently and energetically	G
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CHORUS OF SKULLS	G
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Hoodoos hoodoos disappear	D
Some dread deity draws near	D
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Exeunt Hoodos	G
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Smitten with a sense of doom	L2
The dead are cowering in the tomb	L2
Seas are calling stars are falling	C
And appalling is the gloom	L2
Fragmentary flames are flung	C
Through the air the trees among	C
Lo each hill inclines its head	G
Earth is bending 'neath his thread	G
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On the contrary enter Villiam on a chip navigating an	B
odor of mignonette Saralthia springs forward to put him in	B
her pocket but he is instantly retracted by an invisible string	C
She falls headlong breaking her heart Reenter Villiam	L2
Needleson Smyler All gather about Saralthia who loudly	G
laments her accident The Spirit of Tar and Feathers rising	C
like a black smoke in their midst executes a monstrous wink of	Y
graphic and vivid significance then contemplates them with an	B
obviously baptismal intention The cross on Lone Mountain	B
takes fire splendoring the Peninsula Tableau Curtain	B