Why We Like Spelling

LEAF: The chaotic life
 Of a twelve year old
 Is too hard
 And you never know what's coming next
 But in spelling
 LOGAINNE: Things have logic and lines
 LEAF: And in spelling
 LOGAINNE: There's a greater design
 OLIVE: Though in school we seem strange
 At the bee we seem better
 LEAF: As we count out each letter in our mind
 LOGAINNE: And we find
 OLIVE: We like spelling
 LEAF, LOGAINNE, OLIVE: People love to hate us
 'Cause we're too damn smart
 MARCY: In our hearts we do not believe that we'll succeed
 LEAF, LOGAINNE, OLIVE, MARCY: We're annoying
 LOGAINNE: 'Cause we think on our feet
 OLIVE: I'm enjoying
 My new need to compete
 LEAF: We love nouns
 (Spoken) That's our sport.
 (Sung) We love talcum on our towels
 OLIVE: We love consonants and vowels
 And we feel
 Kinda real
 LEAF, LOGAINNE, OLIVE, MARCY: We like spelling
 WILLIAM, MARCY: I like spelling too
 It's a way to not feel rotten
 CHIP: All the slights are all forgotten
 OLIVE: And you feel almost normal
 SPELLERS: We are fearless spellers who love scary words
 We're the nerds with the dictionary on our knees
 MARCY: Underrate us
 WILLIAM: With our chronic congestion
 MARCY: Or debate us
 WILLIAM (spoken): That's a stupid suggestion!
 LOGAINNE: 'Cause we'll pummel your butt
 When we prove who knows what
 LEAF: Though we're frightened by the sound of the bell
 (Bell, spellers scream)
 SPELLERS: We love words
 We love words
 We love words
 We love words
 We love words
 We love words
 We love spelling
 CHIP: I love spelling too
 That's before I choked on tittup
 Losing that word brought so much sh*t up
 That I'll never recover
 SPELLERS: The chaotic life
 Of a twelve year old
 Is too hard
 And you never know what's coming next
 But in spelling
 Things have logic and lines
 And in spelling
 There's a greater design
 OLIVE: Though in school we seem strange
 At the bee we seem better
 GIRL SPELLERS: As we count out each letter in our mind
 SPELLERS: And we find
 We love spelling
 It makes us feel normal
 We like spelling