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My mum my  - says I'm a mi ra - cle. - 

Very freely (colla voce)

My dad dy  - says I'm his spe cial  - lit tle - guy! I am a prin cess - and I am a prince.

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Mum says I'm an an gel, - Mum says I'm an an gel, - Mum says I'm an an gel, - 

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Nigel

Music & LyricsTim Minchin

Tommy

Lavender Eric

Alice

Amanda

Nigel

 

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 And so you think you're A ble - to sur vive - this mess by Be ing  - a prince or a prin cess; - you will soon

 =q ModeratoA

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D‹ E¨Œ„Š7(b5)

See there's no es ca - ping  - tra ge - dy  - And E ven - if you put in heaps of Eff ort, - you're just wast ing  - e ner  - 

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D‹ B¨ A D‹ B¨ A D‹ E¨

 gy Cos your life as you know it is "aitch" ent - his to - ry. - I have suf fered  - in this

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D‹ A7 D‹ G‹

 

Big Kids

 

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 gaol, Have been trapped in side - this Cage for a ges, - This liv ing  - 'ell, But if I try I can re

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D‹ E± A7

 sim.

mem ber, - Back be fore - my life had end ed, - Be fore - my hap py  - days were o ver, - Be fore - I first heard the peal ing  - of the

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G‹ D‹ E± A7

bell. Like you I was cu ri   - ous, - So in no - cent, - I asked a thou sand  - ques tions, - But un - 

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D‹ B¨ F

 gently

less you want to suf fer, - Lis ten - up and I will teach you a thing or two. You lis ten here, my dear, you'll be pun ished  - so se

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A A7

 

[bell]

[upper harmony some men ad lib]

 

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vere ly  - if you Step out of line and if you cry it will be dou ble, - You should stay out of trou ble, - And re mem ber  - to be

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D‹ A7 EØ7

ex treme - ly  - care ful. - Why? Just you wait for Phys - 

suddenly a little slower back to tempo42

Ed. My  

ad lib, not in tempo

mum my  - says I'm a mi ra - cle. - My dad dy  - said I would be the teach er's - pet.

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 play on cue, at some point in the gaps

repeat bass notes in tempo

School is real ly  - fun ac cord  - ing  - to my mum. Dad says I would learn the al pha - bet. - 

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continuing 

Nigel: Why?

Big kids

Big Kid: "Why? Why?Did you hear what he said?"

Amanda 

Eric

Lavender 

Bruce

 

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 And so you think you're

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 A ble - to sur vive - this mess by Be ing  - a prince or a prin cess; - you will soon See there's no es ca - ping  - tra ge - - 

D

E¨‹ F¨Œ„Š7(b5) E¨‹ B¨

dy And E ven - if you put in heaps of Eff ort, - you're just wast ing  - e ner  - 

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E¨‹ C¨ B¨7 E¨‹ F¨Œ„Š7(b5)

Big Kid: "The alphabet? You got to learn to listen, kid."

Big Kids

Beat 1 here same time asTommy's first letter slam

A B C

[dist gtr]

D E F

[br]

 

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 gy Cos your life as you know it is "aitch" ent - his to - ry. - I have suf fered  - in this

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E¨‹ B¨7 E¨‹

 gaol, Havebeentrapped in side - this Cage for a ges, - This liv ing  - 'ell, But if I try I can re

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mem ber, - Back be fore - my life had end ed, - Be fore - my hap py  - days were

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G H I

[pizz]

 J K L

M N

 

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o ver, - Be fore - I first heard the peal ing  - of the bell. Like you I was cu ri  - ous, - So in no - cent, - I

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C¨

p

asked a thou sand  - ques tions, - But un less - you want to suf fer, - Lis ten - up and I will teach you a thing or two.

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G¨ B¨ B¨7

You lis ten - here, my dear, you'll be pun ished  - so se vere - ly  - if you Step out of line and if you cry it will be

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dou ble, - You should stay out of trou ble, - And re mem - ber  - to be ex treme - ly  - care ful. - 

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O P Q

[bell]

R S T

U V

 WX

 

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Why? Just you

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wait for Phys -  

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pp

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Reginald: Why?

Big kids

Big Kid: "Why? Why?Did you hear what he said?"

* *

Trunchbull: Prisoners, Letchworth, Rottwinkle, Finklebottom, and Gubbinsworth;

report to my study immediately for… re-education.

[snares off]

[trem]

Trunchbull: What. Is. The school. Motto. Children: ‘Bambinatum est Maggitum’ Miss Trunchbull.

[vcl]

 

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POSSIBLE SAFETY89

 poco a poco cresc.

 Just you wait for Phys - 

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Ed!

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A¨‹6 E¨‹ F± B¨ E¨‹

Trunchbull: ‘Bambinatum est Maggitum.’ ‘Children are maggots.’ Back to work, maggots. Did you hear what I said...?

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