Notice Me, Horton

Lyrics

[GERTRUDE McFUZZ] (singing) IT'S TAKEN ALL MY COURAGE TO APPROACH YOU, NOT TO MENTION ALL MY STAMINA TO FOLLOW YOU ACROSS THE HILLS AND DESERTS, BUT I FEEL AS IF I'M READY TO CONFESS TO YOU THE FEELINGS THAT I'VE HIDDEN WITH GREAT DILIGENCE AND LABOR... BEHIND THE FAÇADE OF YOUR ODD LITTLE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR... MY EYES ARE TOO SMALL. I HAVE VERY LARGE FEET. AND I'M NOT VERY PROUD OF MY PITIFUL TWEET. BUT I'VE NOW GOT A TAIL THAT IS SOMETHING TO SEE... [HORTON THE ELEPHANT] (spoken) One hundred and two. One hundred and three. [GERTRUDE] (singing) OH, NOTICE ME, HORTON, FEATHER BY FEATHER. THIS IS YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR CALLING! NOTICE ME, HORTON. HORTON, TOGETHER WE COULD BE GREAT... OH, NOTICE ME, HORTON PUT DOWN THE CLOVER! THIS IS YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR CALLING. THERE'S A NEW LEAF YOUR NEIGHBOR'S TURNED OVER— [HORTON] OVER AND OVER, CLOVER BY CLOVER... [GERTRUDE, & HORTON] I WAS JUST A NO ONE ONLY YESTERDAY. YOU SHOWED UP AND SHOWED ME SOMETHING MORE. NOW I'VE BECOME A SOMEONE WHO HAS SOMEONE TO BELIEVE IN AND TO BE THERE FOR... (HORTON continues his search.) [GERTRUDE] (quietly determined) I WILL NOT GIVE UP HOPE. I WAS HOOKED FROM THE START WHEN I NOTICED YOUR KIND AND YOUR POWERFUL HEART. SO NOTICE ME, HORTON... [HORTON] OH, THE WORLD WOULD BE SOMETHING NEW, [GERTRUDE] NOTICE ME, HORTON... [HORTON] IF THEY NOTICED A THING OR TWO... [GERTRUDE] NOTICE ME, HORTON [GERTRUDE, & HORTON] THE WAY I NOTICE YOU. (The clock ticks as HORTON continues his clover search. GERTRUDE finally exits in defeat. Time jumps to much later in his search.) [HORTON] (spoken) Two million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. It's hopeless. [MAYZIE LaBIRD] You said it, kid. (For a second, HORTON thinks he's heard the WHOS.) [HORTON] Who's there? [MAYZIE] It's me. Mayzie. Up here. (HORTON sees MAYZIE sitting on a hugе, colorful egg, in a nest, in a tree.) [HORTON] Mayzie. Arе you on a nest? [MAYZIE] (defensive) Yeah. You wanna make something of it? [HORTON] No, I just never thought I'd see you on a nest. [MAYZIE] Neither did I, Hort. Neither did I. (The CAT as PIANIST rides out on a small, Seussian piano and plays a musical intro for MAYZIE.)