Fay’s Arrival

Lyrics

[NARRATOR, spoken] Tourists came in droves for the miracle waters, which thrilled Cora, until she discovered her miracle was a fake [COOLEY, spoken] Step up brethren and sister-en, and get your tickets! [MAGRUDER, spoken] Buy your blessings! [COOLEY, spoken] No, count your blessings, buy your tickets! [ENSEMBLE] I'm like the bluebird I should worry, I should care I should be a millionaire I'm like the bluebird [NARRATOR, spoken] And here, nine minutes to the dot, is our heroine [FAY, spoken] So that's the miracle? [COOLEY, spoken] Yes ma'am, sister Nurse Apple! [SCHUB, spoken] Do you think our miracle can do anything for your Cookies? [FAY, spoken] If dirty water from a slimy old rock can do anything for anyone [SCHUB, spoken] You. You can't believe anything that can't be proved in your laboratory of a head. All miracles are fake to you Nurse Apple! Let these happy, hopeful pilgrims be lost and miserable again, Nurse Apple? Let this boom town be a ghost town again? Let those forty-nine loonies—