THE PAJAMA GAME - Act 1 : Page 25
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entitle to be wild, be a child, be a goof, raise the roof
Once a year! This is our once-a-year day once-a-year day
once a year we’re jumping fences This is our once-a-year day
once-a-year day Once a year we lose our senses!
Babe: Look at Charlie up a tree Kissin’ Katie’s ear,
Charlie’s wife is mad as hell!
HINES ENTER AND Chorus: Oh well it happens once a year And this is that once-a-year
EXIT SR day once-a-year day Everyone’s entitle to be wild, be a child, be a
goof, raise the roof Once a year!
Poopsie: Look at Papa Halterbush, 92 today Running off with Sadie
Lee
Chorus: He’s heading for that pile of hay Coz this is his once-a-year
day once-a-year day Everyone’s entitle to be wild,
be a child, be a goof, raise the roof Once a year!
LIGHTING CHANGE
MAX Sounds gruesome me.
MABEL That ain’t the worst of it. Come on, Charley ... If I
ENTER MAX, MABEL
& CHARLEY SR can make it you can. Well, any way he was Elsie
Bartlett’s second cousin. He fell into the concrete
mixer when they were building the new bridge.
CROSS AND EXIT CHARLEY My God
MABEL They never did find the body so they poured the
concrete and held the funeral on top of the second
pier on the Illinois side.
ONCE A YEAR DAY hummed (crossover) (ALL exit slowly)
ALL ENTER PASS MAE What I like about picnics ... they bring people together
SL TO SR PREZ They sure do.
MAE I never thought you was aware I was alive until today.
MAE & PREZ ENTER
PREZ How could I miss you? You’re the kind that stands out
SR
in a crowd. You know what I mean? You’ve got what
it takes. You know something else that’s a mighty
elegant outfit you got on.
MAE Oh, it’s just casual. Listen, Prez ... what would your