The Beautiful Game - Livret
Overture
The Beautiful Game
Clean The Kit
Don't Like You
God's Own Country
God's Own Country (Protestant March)
Let Us Love In Peace
The Final
Off To The Party
The Craic
Don't Like You (Reprise)
Our Kind Of Love
Let Us Love In Peace (Reprise)
The Happiest Day
To Have And To Hold
The First Time
I'd Rather Die On My Feet Than Live On My Knees
God's Own Country (Reprise)
The Selection
Dead Zone
If This Is What We're Fighting For
All The Love I Have
Finale
ALL
Measure your life in football seasons
Feel the passion and feel the heat
Football is the only reason
God Almighty gave us feet
Goal!
Buy the ref a flippin' guide dog
Do you call that a bleedin' pass?
Kick it out mate, what a ball hog
Dozy wanker, shift your arse!
Two-nil!
You dirty bastard
We'll have the last word
BOYS
Come and have a go
Have some of that
You think you're hard
But we know you're crap
ALL
Let's have another
Just like the other
Come on!
BOYS
Viva the beautiful game
Raise your voice for the people's sport
ALL
Long live the bountiful game
Those who play, those who support
Sick as a parrot, over the moon
Score a couple more for
A wonderful game, a magical game
Thank God for football!
GIRLS
They're our lads and we support them
Come on then, stick one in this time
ALL
It isn't a religion it's more important
Sacred, holy and divine
Three-nil!
BOYS
Nice one, United
We're all delighted
GIRLS
No joy tonight, forget it again
My boyfriend's in love with eleven men
ALL
All sing together, comrades forever
Up yours!
Viva the beautiful game
It's what Saturdays are for
Ooh! Ah! The triumph and pain
Work to live but live to score
We're on our way now, to Wembley
Up for the cup, it's
The classical game, the marvellous game
Thank God for football!
It's an obsession, the reason we're here
'Cos it's better than sex and it's better than beer
So viva the emerald team
Mother Mary's Irish sons
Viva the boys in green
Shout for Ireland 's youngest guns
Green is the colour, soccer the game
Score a thousand more for
The boys in green, the emerald team
Playing for Ireland
Playing for Ireland !
Yeah!
JOHN
Soon I'm gonna be a man, be a player not a fan
'Cos that's all I've ever wanted since my life began
Gonna be a soccer star, maybe drive a fancy car
Build a mansion in the country for my Ma and Pa
Gotta clean the kit
I'm so sick of it
Each day I have to go to school, have to try and keep my cool
While I study for exams in how to be a fool
It's no wonder I'm annoyed, 'cos the state is overjoyed
Just to teach a poor boy how to join the unemployed
I'm so sick of it
School and cleaning kit
One day I won't have to take it
'Cos I know I'm gonna make it
All I need's a chance and I'll be on my way
Only fools obey the rules
They work all day like stupid mules
I'm busting out of here, I'll do it one fine day
I ain't eating shit
Cleaning people's kit
(dialogue)
THOMAS & CRONIES
You're not fit to wear our kit, you bastard orange proddy git
We'll tear it off your back and stuff it down your throat
Take our advice or pay the price, we certainly won't warn you twice
The tide has turned and soon we'll be the ones to gloat
You're a sodding Brit
Wearing Irish kit!
MARY
So you're gonna be a man, not a stupid also-ran
Now I've heard a lot of talk about your master plan
I don't think you'll be a star, you ain't gonna go that far
You're all talk and sod all action, you're all blah, blah, blah
Come to terms with it
Born to clean the kit
Your life's a farce, get off your arse
Take my advice, get back in class
Or hang around and moan and groan your life away
'Cos every hunk ends up a drunk
Just killing time, his prospects sunk
Still claiming that he's gonna bust out one fine day
If the cap'll fit
You'll be wearing it
Stuck here cleaning kit
JOHN
I have no fear, the time is near
This boy is busting out of here
I'll be burning brightly once the flame is lit
I'll make my mark, light up the dark
Explosions start with just one spark
Then another lad will have to clean my kit
I'm so sick of it
School and cleaning kit
MARY
You're so full of it!
JOHN
But one day I'm not gonna take it!
MARY
Don't like you, don't like you
I don't think I like you
You're bad, you're sad
And I know nicer boys
JOHN
Not bothered, not bothered
I simply am not bothered
You're vain - a total pain
And I know sweeter girls
You've been hanging round my door and watching me at school
MARY
Yes, and I was thinking you're completely uncool
JOHN
Well, I wouldn't say yourself was much to shout about
MARY
Do your fly up, sonny, 'cos your brain's hanging out
JOHN
You're gagging for a date I know you're dying to meet
MARY
I don't think so, why there's still a dog left out in the street
MARY & JOHN
That's fine by me, I don't like you
MARY
Don't need you, don't want you
I can live without you
I swear, I just don't care
Because I know nicer boys
JOHN
Don't like you, don't need you
I don't care about you
You see, you're not for me
I like lots of other girls
MARY
You bug me and you're ugly and your jokes are a bore
Your efforts at coherent conversation are poor
The lights are clearly on but then there's nobody home
JOHN
In that case, why the hell d'you call me up on the phone?
MARY
I never flippin' did, sure it was you who called me
JOHN
Well, what the hell, at least there's one thing that we agree
MARY & JOHN
I'm damn sure I don't like you
(dialogue section)
JOHN
Don't hate you, could stand you
If pushed, could tolerate you
MARY
I'm sure that you'll mature
I have known more stupid boys
You say it
JOHN
No, you say it
MARY
All right - I vaguely like you
It's bad, I must be mad
But I think we could be friends
JOHN
No commitment, only friends
MARY
I like you
JOHN
I like you
BOTH
Yes - I think I like you
It's real, it's how I feel
And I want...
MARY
Would you mind not pressing that thing against me?
MARY
Where I live is God's own country
Though it's dirtier and poorer than He planned
Broken windows, broken lives
Jobless husbands, weeping wives
It may not look like God's own country
But God is love and I know He loves this land
Though it's ragged and it's worn
It's the place where I was born
The beauty lies within in God's own country
It sleeps beneath the soil and 'neath the sand
It's our mothers and fathers, our heroes and martyrs
For God's in the people and people are the land
Each new generation will rebuild the nation
That's how it's been since our history began
PROTESTANT GIRL
In the darkness of the night I hear it singing
The whispering of the wind and rain, its song
BOTH
A sublime eternal tune to the rhythms of the moon
These ancient chords were formed in the beginning
And they sing to me, "My country, right or wrong"
These are the songs we always sang
No one knows where they began
MARY
This fair land is God's own country
And it's Catholic and Republican and free
PROTESTANT GIRL
It's a Protestant land made by God's perfect hand
And a Protestant country it will always be
BOTH
For Ireland is mine and is so for all time
From the Atlantic Ocean unto the Irish Sea
Where I live is God's own country
I was born here and this land belongs to me
It's in our blood and in our bones
It's the place that we call home
The beauty lies within in God's own country
It sleeps beneath the soil and 'neath the sand
It's our mothers and fathers, our heroes and martyrs
For God's in the people and people are the land
Each new generation will rebuild the nation
That's how it's been since our history began
Where I live is God's own country
Though it's dirtier and poorer than He planned
Though it's ragged and it's worn
It's the place where I was born
God's Own Country (Protestant March)
CHRISTINE
Dream about a day when we'll be
Calm, serene, completely carefree
Just for fun, think of one ordinary day
Ask yourself what it would feel like
Dream the dream with all of your might
Close your eyes, visualise - just one normal day
CHRISTINE & DEL
Time to find out who we are
Time to find our lucky star
Time for all our pain to cease
We'll love in peace
DEL
Just imagine no more violence
No more bombs, the sound of silence
Time to be you and me, time to love in peace
CHRISTINE & DEL
Days of hope so calm and tranquil
Private moments to be thankful
On our own, left alone - free to love in peace
DEL
Time to simply sit and breathe
CHRISTINE
Time to learn how to believe
CHRISTINE & DEL
And give thanks for our release
To love in peace
CHRISTINE
Time to dance and time to grow
DEL
Time to learn and time to know
CHRISTINE & DEL
Time to prosper and increase
Make love in peace
Sometimes I get on my knees and pray
For that one ordinary day
When all the pain will finally cease
Then we'll be free to love in peace
DEL
Just for fun
CHRISTINE
Think of one
CHRISTINE & DEL
Ordinary day
US
This is it, what a blast, in the final at last
We're a dream of a team, we're just totally excited
What a thrill, twenty-nil, we'll go in for the kill
On a roll for a goal we could take on Man United
THEM
Try a pass, shift your arse, come on show us some class
Get stuck in, play to win 'til the very final minute
Knock it back, then attack, come on lads it's a crack
If in doubt, kick it out 'cos we're really going to win it
JOHN
Oh what a lovely little move I would say
This boy has not got a lot to prove on the day
Must be on some sort of potion
He doesn't need any other men, what a run
Let's take a look at that move again, just for fun
This time let's watch in slow motion
BOYS
Oh what a lovely little move I would say
This boy has not got a lot to prove on the day
Must be on some sort of potion
We're the team that rocks
We're the dog's bollocks
BERNADETTE
Ginger's got the ball! Come on, Ginger!
FATHER O'DONNELL
Give 'em your snarl, lad!
CROWD
You fat bastard, you're rubbish
You ginger git, look his gut's double size
What a useless tub, what a lard arse
Christ, now we know who ate all of the pies
He goes in for the kill and he makes it one-nil
What a fabulous goal, it enraptures the soul
The boy's magic
FATHER O'DONNELL
My God this looks tense
They've got past our defence
Slide in low, on the toe, get stuck in, have a go
Risk a booking
Bring him down on the ground, don't just piddle around
Chance your luck, chop him up
You can see that the ref's not looking
THOMAS
I clearly played straight for the ball, did you see?
That dozy prat took a fall right in front of me
Any sane ref would agree it
REF
Out comes the book and a red card, off you go
You like to think that you're so dead hard, now you know
They get a direct free kick
ALL
Take the hero's role
Score the winning goal!
BOYS
Green is the colour, Soccer the game
Score a thousand more for
The boys in green, the emerald team
We're bloody magic
Just fucking magic
ALL
Let's get legless
Let's get hammered
Let's get ratfaced
Let's get arseholed
We're just totally great
There is no debate
I'm telling you mate
We're the business
We are simply superb
Haven't you heard
Divinely preferred
God's our witness
We are stunningly skilled
Testosterone filled
We went out and killed
We're fantasmic
We're a magical team
We play like a dream
We're clearly the cream
We're orgasmic
Let's get roaring punch drunk
Fighting, dancing, puke drunk
Hurling, belching, blind drunk
So drunk it's obscene
Comatosely dead drunk
Unconscious on the floor drunk
An arseholed and hammered and totally shitfaced team
Violently ill drunk
Stretched out in the street drunk
Need a stomach pump drunk
Drunk as fifty men
Utterly insane drunk
Pickling your brain drunk
And when we recover, get bloody drunk again!
(dialogue section)
ALL
Are you up for the craic?
Do you know how to party?
Here's the plan of attack
Give me a drink and start me
GIRLS
Are you quite sure that you've got the stomach for it?
Once the craic's started there's no way to ignore it
Free your wild side and let it all out, don't fear it
BOYS
Don't just dance with your feet, dance with your very spirit
ALL
We're all on for the craic
Everyone's made their minds up
There'll be no looking back
Nobody shouting time's up
We're all up for the craic
Partying's what we're made for
Don't be boring or slack
Dance 'til it makes your feet sore
We won't stop now that it's really getting going
What the night promises there's no way of knowing
Girl, boy, boy, girl - we can lose our inhibitions
Dance close, hold tight, come on really make some friction
We all live for the craic
Everyone's on the dance floor
End up flat on your back
Good times have to be paid for
We all live for the craic
Everyone's on the dance floor
End up flat on your back
Good times have to be paid for
GINGER
I was wondering if there's any chance that you'd be my bird
Or if you want, I'll bugger off, just give me the word
BERNADETTE
Not at all, I'd really like to see you again
If you think it wouldn't be too much of a pain
GINGER
Bloody hell, it's taken me a year to ask this
BERNADETTE
If that's the case, why don't we celebrate with a kiss
BERNADETTE & GINGER
'Cos I'm quite sure that I like you
GINGER
I like you
BERNADETTE
I like you
GINGER & BERNADETTE
Oh dear, I think I love you
It's strange, but things have changed
'Cos now I've found my boy/girl
CHRISTINE
Our kind of love
Our kind of passion
Burns with a heat so hard to bear
It's not a game
No fad or fashion
Our kind of love's for those who dare
I must be strong
I must be bolder
Cling to my dream and never tire
Each love denied
Leaves people colder
New love rekindles every fire
I shan't betray my heart's desire
Even though we come from different sides
We won't hide
I am in love
No one can blame me
Such is my story and my fate
My kind of love
Will never shame me
My love is stronger than their hate
My love is stronger than their hate
I shall cling to him with all my might
It's my right
All kinds of love
Bring us together
Causes the broken heart to mend
People must love, now and forever
There's only one love in the end
There's only one love in the end
Let Us Love In Peace (Reprise)
BERNADETTE
Just imagine no more violence
No more bombs, the sound of silence
Time to be young and free
Time to love in peace
Days of hope so calm and tranquil
Private moments to be thankful
On our own, left alone
Free to love in peace
BERNADETTE, MARY & CHRISTINE
Time to simply sit and breathe
Time to learn how to believe
And give thanks for our release
To love in peace
BERNADETTE
Time to dance and time to grow
Time to learn and time to know
Time to prosper and increase
Make love in peace
BERNADETTE, MARY & CHRISTINE
Sometimes I get on my knees and pray for that one ordinary day
BERNADETTE
Then we'll be free
To love in peace
FATHER O'DONNELL
We are gathered here today to give thanks for the life of Gregory O'Shaugnessy.
He would have been eighteen next week.
ALL
Sometimes I get on my knees and pray for that one ordinary day
When all our pain will finally cease
And we'll be free
To love in peace
MARY
God, I hope I've made the right decision
Do I want to be somebody's wife?
Will this be the day I go to prison
Or is this the happiest day of my life?
JOHN
I had fifteen pints of Guinness last night
Vindaloo with prawns and pilaf rice
Tell the Priest to just perform the last rites
Is this the happiest day of my life?
FATHER O'DONNELL
We're gathered here together to join these two forever
And put asunder never, until death do them part
Our Holy Saviour Jesus is watching now and sees us
Binding these two as one single beating heart
JOHN
To have and to hold, faithfully
To honour and love devotedly
Wilt thou take this man?
MARY
Yes, I will
For better or worse, constantly
In sickness and health, unfailingly
Wilt thou take this girl?
JOHN
Yes, I will
MARY & JOHN
I pledge my soul to you, I give you my heart
There by your side until death do us part
CONGREGATION
To honour and love constantly
'Til death do them part, devotedly
Yes from this wedding day forth, joined by God
MARY & JOHN
To be by your side, faithfully
Forsaking all others willingly
With my body I thee worship, and with this ring I thee wed
To have and to hold, fervently
To honour and love unendingly
Wilt thou take this man/girl
Yes, I will!
JOHN
And wilt thou take this man, for better or for worse?
MARY
And wilt thou take this girl, in sickness and in health?
MARY & JOHN
And wilt thou take this heart?
CONGREGATION
God, we hope they've made the right decision
Will their fate be forty years of strife?
Is this union headed for division?
No! It's the happiest day of their lives!
MARY
Can this be, you and me - scared of each other?
Why do I tremble? The first time's not a crime
So let's not wait, it's our fate
Make me your lover
This moment must be so sublime
A night of pure bliss, for us this first time
From now on, the only girl you need is me
I am yours until our dying day
From this night when we share our - virginity
We will be together come what may
JOHN
What if I'm not sublime - no Casanova
I've had a couple - birthday suit, brewer's droop
I'm so shy, how can I get my leg over?
Hope there's lead in my pencil when
I lose my cherry this very first time
Have I got all the right information?
Which position does a girl prefer?
I fear premature ejaculation
'Cos my God, I don't half fancy her
MARY
If I seem less than keen, it's not evasion
I'm scared I'll be a piece of wood, not much good
JOHN
Close my eyes, try to rise to the occasion
MARY & JOHN
Let's face it, we're just petrified
So let's get to this, and through this first time
It's absurd, this moment's all we've dreamt about
When our love will set our spirits free
I don't care if I don't make you scream and shout
I love you and I know you love me
MARY
Why do I want to cry, when I'm so happy?
JOHN
I don't deserve this - look at you, a dream come true
I'm on my knees, hold me please - now and forever
MARY & JOHN
I'll keep you close and make you mine
Right from the first kiss, for us this first time
No one ever felt the way I feel tonight
No desire ever felt so strong
Sparks of passion glowing hot and shining bright
A fire to burn my whole life long
MARY
You and me, young and free, in love forever
JOHN
I am your husband
MARY
I'm your wife
MARY & JOHN
In love for life
So hold me tight, through the night we'll be together
We'll move the heavens and the Earth
We'll make a new star, for this our first time
We'll make a new star, for this our first time
I'd Rather Die On My Feet (Than Live On My Knees)
THOMAS
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees
Death with honour
Because the weak and fearful are a social disease
I am stronger
Insects crawl, a man stands tall, he has to risk it all
Men dictate their final fate while fools negotiate
When the battle is over and the last deal is done
Let me tell you
The man with the power will be the man with the gun
He can kill you
You're naive if you believe they'll give you a reprieve
Close your eyes to compromise, betrayal in disguise
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees
Won't surrender
Because I am my country and my country is me
I'll defend her!
MARY, CHRISTINE & DEL
So farewell to God's own country
We are Irish and we sail upon the tide
Gone to seek a better place
It's the story of our race
Tears have always flowed from God's own country
The nation's children scattered far and wide
But no matter where we roam
We will still call Ireland home
If we never do return to God's own country
We will carry it within us 'til we die
Yes a new course is set, but we'll never forget
What we owe to the country where our forefathers lie
Though we know we must part it's with such heavy heart
And with tears in our eyes as we say our last goodbye
So farewell to God's own country
We are Irish and we sail upon the tide
Gone to seek a better place
It's the story of our race
JOHN
God I hope they make the right decision
I'm the best, I'm sharper than a knife
View the others with complete derision
I am on trial and it's for my life
ALL
God I hope they make the right decision
I'm the best, I'm sharper than a knife
View the others with complete derision
I am on trial and it's for my life
(dialogue section)
JOHN
I'm going to play for Everton, you will see
This boy's career will soon become legendary
George Best will ask me to teach him
So for football's sake, give the boy a break!
JOHN
Help me please, I'm on my knees
I'm dying by degrees
Too much pain, I'll go insane
I want my chance again
I have to go on, screw up my courage and hold on to my belief
I have a future, I have a wife and I love her, she shares my grief
Prison will not break my heart
I'll stand apart from this
I'll remember that I'm loved
I won't be shoved into that dark abyss
INMATES
You're in the dead zone, you're utterly alone
Get your allegiances sorted
This is the end zone, no seed of hope are sewn
Previous friendships aborted
Now you're inside boy, there's no way to hide boy
You could hang yourself, we can find a rope
Inside the gate love will turn to hate
You will weep while you sleep, then you'll learn to cope
But without hope
We are your friends and we're all convicted men
Think you can stand apart? Think again
We're all you've got, now you've been left to rot
You're in the death zone, Satan sits on the throne
Even the strongest are frightened
This is the dark zone, we see in monochrome
Nothing is good or enlightened
Happiness is ended, all hope is suspended
We are the damned, we are all despised
But this prison has a key and it's loyalty
You can trust all of us, when they beat you down we'll be around
It's all too late, you are looking at your fate
This is the place you learn to hate
Hate to survive, if you hate you'll stay alive
Anger is learned when free men are interned
It isn't a choice or decision
You started to hate when you walked through the gate
From the moment you entered this prison
It's a pitiful sight, men deprived of their rights
You must maintain your rage and your fury
Revenge is your aim, you must murder and maim
Be your enemy's judge and his jury
You're in the death zone, Satan sits on the throne
Even the strongest are frightened
If This Is What We're Fighting For
MARY
If this is what we're fighting for
If this is the way we begin
With the innocent dying, the whole nation crying
If this is how we fight our wars
Then I don't want to win
We say that justice is our aim
But what does that justice mean?
Condemned without trial, no chance of denial
To cripple men in freedom's name
Is utterly obscene
If men must die, we must ask why
Their murder is not a sin
Though our cause is just, we betray its trust
If this is what we're fighting for I don't want to win
If unity's the thing we crave
Then who will be unified?
The bitter and grieving, no cause to believe in
There'll be one nation in the grave
Uniting those who die
Holy wars, settling scores
Ancient deaths to call in
We just love to kill, and we always will
If hatred's all we're fighting for
Then I don't want to win
I don't want to win
JOHN
You know that our parting breaks my heart
I have never felt such sorrow
All the love I have I leave with you
I once promised 'til death do us part
And yet I'll be gone tomorrow
Please believe me, what I said was true
But when I go, I'm on my own
The path I walk, I walk alone
I face a bitter world with only memories to guide me
I care more that I have ever cared
Yet I know that I am leaving
You'll be in my heart my whole life through
And all the love I have I leave with you
MARY
You're a father, you've a family
Your son needs you, don't ignore him
Just to fight a war you cannot win
JOHN
I hope my son will be proud of me
When I fight, I'm fighting for him
Share the love I leave for you with him
MARY
And so we all must pay the price
For such a stupid sacrifice
Don't you understand that this won't end 'til we let it?
JOHN
When I'm gone you know I won't be back
Mine's a path that has no turning
Please believe me what I said was true
That all the love I have I leave with you
MARY
And all the love I have, you take with you
(dialogue section)
MARY
People need love, that's what we live for
Now is the time, it's not too late
We have to love, try to forgive more
No child was ever born to hate
No child was ever born to hate
I will strive for peace with all my might
That's what's right
All kinds of love bring us together
Causes the broken hearts to mend
People must love, now and forever
There's only one love in the end
COMPANY
There's only one love in the end