Egg, Nest And Tree

Lyrics

[SOUR KANGAROO] (singing) UP OUT OF THE JUNGLE, UP INTO THE SKY, UP OVER THE MOUNTAINS, [BIRD GIRLS #1, 2, 3, WICKERSHAM BROTHERS #1, 2, 3, & SOU KANGAROO] TEN THOUSAND FEET HIGH, [SOUR KANGAROO, & BIRD GIRLS] THEN DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS [BIRD GIRLS, WICKERSHAMS, & SOUR KANGAROO] AND DOWN TO THE SEA [ALL (except HORTON)] WENT HORTON THE ELEPHANT, EGG, NEST AND TREE. [WOMEN] EGG, NEST AND TREE! [MEN] EGG, NEST AND TREE! [ALL (except HORTON)] THEY LOADED THE WAGON RIGHT ONTO A SHIP. OUT OVER THE OCEAN AND OOH, WHAT A TRIP! ROLLING AND TOSSING AND SICK AS COULD BE! (HORTON throws up on one of the HUNTERS, who reacts!) [HORTON THE ELEPHANT] (spoken) Blaaggghh! [ALL] (singing) JUST A SEASICK ELEPHANT, EGG, NEST AND TREE! ["VOCALLY LOW" MEN] NEST AND TREE [ALL] EGG, NEST AND TREE... ["VOCALLY LOW" MEN] NEST AND TREE [BIRD GIRL #1] (spoken) After bobbing around for two weeks like a cork... [ALL (except HORTON)] (singing) EGG, NEST AND TREE! [BIRD GIRL #2] (spoken) They landed at last in the town of New York. [ALL (except CAT IN THE HAT, & HORTON)] (singing) EGG, NEST AND TREE! [BIRD GIRL #3] (spoken) He was wet. He was tired. And hungry and cold. [ALL (except HORTON)] (singing) EGG, NEST AND TREE! [BIRD GIRLS] (spoken) Then, Horton was taken to auction... (The CAT appears as a very proper, and elegant AUCTIONEER.) [CAT (as AUCTIONEER)] Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Seusseby's. Our first item up to bid this evening is lot 39, a pendulous pachyderm on egg, nest and tree. The bidding will begin at ten thousand dollars. Do I hear ten, ten thousand? (NOTE: Another "free" improvisational area for the CAT to invite audience participation in the auction.) [CAT (as AUCTIONEER)] Going once, going twice... (The CAT bangs his gavel.) Sold...to the man with the sideburns and the greasy black mustache. Oh, excuse me, Madame! Sold...to the man from the circus! [ALL (except CAT, & HORTON)] SOLD... SOLD... SOLD... EGG, NEST AND TREE. (ALL exit mournfully, as HORTON is carried off. And suddenly, the CAT is transformed into the man from the circus—McGURKUS himself. Circus music begins.)