ฟังเพลงMerrily We Roll Along (1961-1960)/Bobby and Jackie and Jack

Merrily We Roll Along (1961-1960) / Bobby and Jackie and Jack - Merrily We Roll Along Ensemble/Lonny Price/Sally Klein/Jim Walton

Lyricist：Stephen Sondheim

Composer：Stephen Sondheim

Producer：Thomas Z. Shepard

Travelling's the fun

Flashing by the countryside

Merrily we roll along roll along

Catching at dreams

Yesterday is done

See the pretty countryside

Everybody merrily merrily 1961

Some roads are easy

Some rides are breezy

Some roads the ride gets out of control

Grinds to a halt and ends in a hole

Some roads you stall before you can roll

1960 it's 1960

And gosh what a swell year it's been

So many blessings

Such wonders it has brought

You hardly know where to begin

There's xerox and lasers

The twist and the pill

A city in Brazil

That no one wants to fill

Khrushchev stopped screaming

And Librium came in

And Nixon didn't win

Goodbye then to Ike and the brass

To years that were cozy but crass

It's true Ike was icky

But better him than Dicky

Now meet the first First Family with class

En masse

There's Bobby and Jackie and Jack

And myriads more in the back

There's Ethel and Teddy and Pat alone

Plus Eunice and Peter and Jean and Joan

And what's his name Stephen

And hold the phone the one in the army

One in the army

Captain Major Sargent

That's it

So many cards in the pack

You want to know how to keep track

Well one is good looking and young and rich

While one is good looking and young and rich

The rest are good looking and young and rich

There isn't a lot that they lack

Not Bobby and Jackie and Jack

And Ethel and Ted and Eunice

And Pat and Joan

And Steve and Peter

And Jean and Sarge

There's probably dozens of others at large

God knows

And Joe and Rose

We're bringing back style to the White House

I'm painting it cream for a start

We're making it into a cultural lighthouse

For glamour and beauty and art

Evenings of the Budapest playing Vivaldi

And Munch doing bits of Ravel

I'll get Leontyne Price to sing her medley from Meistersinger

And Margot Fonteyn to dance Giselle

Together

Won't it be perfectly swell

We'll have Bernstein play next on the Bechstein pianer

And Auden read poems and stuff

And Galina Vishnevskya

The Russian soprano

Just pronouncing her name is refreshing enough

We're bringing back style to the White House

With casual culture the rule

Let's have Tebaldi

She makes a guy feel good

And Oleg Cassini

Well I think he's real good

And how about Heifetz

And Callas

And Gielgud

And later when everything's cool

We'll push them all into the pool hahaha

With Bobby and Jackie and Jack

The White House is under attack

Eight years is the limit but eight will do

By then there'll be Bobby and Teddy too

Or Peter or Stephen or even you ooh

And then there's the Colonel

Colonel Major Major

You know

Sargent yes

Dozens to take up the slack

If anything goes out of whack

And some day elections will be unknown

'Cause each of our kids will ascend the throne

And their kids have more kids with kids of their own

It's sort of a family knack

Till most of the nation's made up of relations

Of Bobby and Jackie and Jack

And Ethel and Ted and Eunice and Pat and Joan

And Steve and Peter and Jean and Sarge

And Joe and Rose and rows and rows

And rows and rows and rows and rows

The decade is starting anew

And maybe the country is too