作词 : Stephen Sondheim
作曲 : Stephen Sondheim
1960
It's 1960.
And gosh,what a swell year it's been!
So many blessings,such wonder 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
khrushchew stopped screaming
and Librium came in
and Nixon didn't win
ooh
Goodbye,then,to Ike and the brass
to years that were cozy but crass
It's true.Ike was icky
but better him than D**ky
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'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's beige 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 medly from Meistersinger
and Margot Fonteyn to dance Giselle
Together?
Won't it be perfectly swell?
Oh,we''ll have Bernstein play next on the Bechstein piano
and Auden read poems and stuff
And Galina Vishnevskaya
Gesundheit
The Russian soprano
Just pronouncing her name is refreshing enough,oh
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!
Alright,Bobby,I'll make you Attorney General,just get off my back!
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 someday elections will be unknown
cause each of our kids will ascend a throne
and their kids have more kids with kids out their own
It's a sort of family knack
till most of the nation'smade 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.