Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Posted: 1/25/07 at 8:53pmHaving bought the CD from iTunes, would anyone mind transcribing the lyrics to this song from GREY GARDENS? If it's online, please direct me to a link.
#2re: Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Posted: 1/25/07 at 9:21pm
BROOKS
Sorry to interrupt your rehearsal, Ma'am, but about Mr. Beale: surely he's coming home for the party?
EDITH
I should say so! He's announcing his daughter's engagement! Wall Street will have to do without him for a day!
Mister Beale thinks making money matters more
Than a restful family summer by the shore
But unless some act of God divine derails the New York-Montauk line
He's arriving on the five-fifteen!
BROOKS
Then I'll have a car waiting at the station--
JACKIE & LEE
Auntie Edith! Auntie Edith!
EDITH
Girls, girls! Just look at you! Jackie, lovely, and Lee, a fright! What have you been doing?
JACKIE
Sing for us, Aunt Edith!
EDITH
Now girls, make yourselves useful; go out to the garden and make some pretty little nosegays to wear at the party--
JACKIE
Please!
LEE
Puh-lease! Just one song!
EDITH
All right, Gould. What's next on the bill? "Indian Love Call"?
GOULD
No, the mysterious Orient.
EDITH
Hit it!
Pretty itty bitty geisha, delicate and small and sweet
Kneeling on tatami, making origami
Hobbling on her poor bound feet
Pity itty bitty geisha, hiding all her foolish pride...
Let your Auntie Edith finish her rehearsal,
Take your silly selves outside. Scoot! Utter terrors, those two.
GOULD
I just adore children. Especially grown ones.
BROOKS
Ma'am. The caterer's arrived. Where would you like him to set up--?
EDITH
Put the chafing dishes on the garden ledge
Once the gardener has finished with the hedge
Chill the vichyssoise and heat the veal
And wish me luck, 'cause Mister Beale is arriving on the five-fifteen!
What time is it?
GOULD
Half past eleven.
EDITH
Good Lord!
One o'clock! Set the chairs and the tables!
Two o'clock! Raise the big white tent!
Three o'clock! Reginaldo does our hair!
GOULD
Now that sounds promising.
EDITH
Four o'clock! Hang the Japanese lanterns!
Five o'clock! Mix the champagne punch!
JACKIE & LEE
Pick the inchworms off the peonies!
GOULD
Pink umbrellas for the daiquiris!
EDITH
The Ambassador and Rose will tour the grounds.
"Like a spread from House and Garden," she expounds!
GOULD
Oh, how nouveau riche!
EDITH
Have the piano tuned and moved outdoors by cocktail hour--mine, not yours, and restrict yourself to grenadine!
You cannot be sloshed at five-fifteen!
BROOKS
Beale residence, hold please. Lady from The Hamptons Bee.
EDITH
Why, hello, Margaret! Yes, darling, half past! Well, everyone, simply le tout Park Avenue and la creme de Hyannis! Well, the press table is going to be awfully crowded but if you don't mind sharing a folding chair with Harper's Bazaar...Sing? Me? Heavens no, it's Edie's day, not mine...Although people can be so insistent and I hate to disappoint. Twist my arm, blackmail me, threaten my very life, and who knows? You might get a verse of something...Yes, darling, half past!
Where were we?
GOULD, BROOKS, JACKIE & LEE
One o'clock!
EDITH
Stake the droopy hydrangeas!
GOULD, BROOKS, JACKIE & LEE
Two o'clock!
EDITH
Fill the lotus pond!
GOULD, BROOKS, JACKIE & LEE
Three o'clock!
EDITH
Lock the cat up in its room!
JACKIE & LEE
Aw, poor kitty!
GOULD, BROOKS, JACKIE & LEE
Four o'clock!
EDITH
Glaze the salmon in aspic!
GOULD, BROOKS, JACKIE & LEE
Five o'clock!
EDITH
Crack the crab on ice!
With the privet pruned and manicured
And my daughter's future well assured...
Grey Gardens will be decked out in its prime!
GOULD
Bright as a Liberty dime!
EDITH
Little Edie will be here with Joe in time!
BROOKS
Hear them chapel bells chime!
EDITH
Like a Norman Rockwell family
Our photo in The Hamptons Bee!
GOULD
The event of 1941!
JACKIE & LEE
Of East, West, South, and Bridge Hampton!
EDITH
Though perhaps I've overspent a bit
The man who's gonna pay for it--
ALL
--is arriving on the five-fifteen!
...Wow. I really love Grey Gardens and have way too much time on my hands.
Hope that helped!
#2re: Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Posted: 1/25/07 at 9:22pm
ETA: Neely beat me to it!
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Posted: 1/25/07 at 9:29pmHaha, Wanna Be A Foster--you did it the smart way! ::headdesk:: Why didn't I think of that?
Trina55
Stand-by Joined: 12/11/05
#5re: Five-Fifteen Lyrics
Posted: 1/26/07 at 12:26am
Thanks guys! I was wondering too.
"Of East, West, South, and Bridge Hampton" whodda thunk? I had no clue.
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