The People Versus Horton The Elephant - Original Broadway Cast Recording

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This is the case of the people versus
 Horton the elephant
 Horton the elephant!
 Judge Yertle the turtle presiding
 Everyone rise!
 Order! Order! Order in the court!
 Order, order, order, order in the court!
 The defendant is charged with talking to a speck
 Disturbing the peace, and loitering ... on an egg
 Your honor, this clover is Exhibit A
 They're Whos here
 There are Whos here
 Smaller than the eye can
 See!
 Biggest blame fool
 In the Jungle of Nool
 It's true, sir!
 Here's who's who, sir!
 He's a who, and so is she
 Biggest blame fool
 In the Jungle of Nool
 Order! Order! Order in the court!
 Call to the stand the star witness versus
 Horton the elephant
 Raise your right hand and swear!
 I swear
 That he's the biggest blame fool
 In the Jungle of Nool
 As I testified long ago
 Biggest blame fool
 Just a fool, fool, fool!
 And a mother like me should know
 Judgin' him trunk to toe
 You better think!
 Think!
 Think!
 Think!
 Oh please, throw him in the clink!
 Talkin' to a speck
 Talkin' to a speck
 To a speck of dust!
 Objection!
 Overruled!
 Sittin' on an egg
 Sittin' on an egg
 Sittin' on an egg!
 Objection!
 Overruled!
 I meant what I said
 And I said what I meant
 An elephant's faithful
 One hundred percent!
 You can throw me in jail
 Lock me up in a zoo
 But I won't desert my egg
 And I will not abandon Who!
 These Whos, sir
 Win or lose, sir
 Whether you believe or not
 They're here
 They live in fear
 And I'm the only friend they've got
 You can do what you want with me, Your Honor
 And I won't question why
 But Please save Who
 The ti-niest planet in the sky
 Based on the evidence, I have no choice
 But to order the defendant, Horton the elephant
 Remanded to the Nool asylum for the criminally insane
 And as for the dust speck
 Ooh! That dust speck!
 And as for the dust speck
 Ooh! That speck!
 And as for your dust speck
 That we will
 Boil boil boil boil boil
 In a hot steaming kettle of beezlenut oil!
 Boil it! Oh no!
 No, that you can't do!
 It's all full of persons!
 They'll prove it to you!
 Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor!
 Oh, please, Mr. Mayor!
 You've got to prove now
 That you really are there!
 So ring every doorbell
 And send out the word!
 Make every Who holler!
 Make every Who heard!
 Boil, boil, boil, boil, boil!
 Attention all Whos!
 Attention all Whos!
 We've got to be heard!
 There's no time to lose!
 So send up a shout
 Make it loud! Make it clear!
 We are here! We are here!
 We are here! We are here!
 Boil it! Boil it!
 Boil it! Boil it!
 Boil it! Boil it!
 Boil it! Boil it!
 Don't give up! I believe in you all!
 A person's a person, no matter how small!
 And you very small persons will not have to die
 If you make yourselves heard! So, please! TRY!
 Boil it!
 Boil it!
 Boil it!
 Boil it!
 We are here!
 Boil it!
 We are here!
 Boil it!
 We are here!
 Boil it!
 We are here!
 Boil it!
 We are here!
 Boil... We are here!
 Jojo, think of something!
 Now just for a moment, young Jojo looked grim
 The fate of the Whos rested squarely on him!
 But then came a think.-
 A peculiar new word no one ever had heard!
 Boil it! We are here!
 Boil it! We are here!
 Boil it! We are here!
 Boil!... We are here!
 YOPP!
 

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Duration
04:30
Key
4
Tempo
82 BPM

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