Bubble Boy

[ALL]
Aah! Aah! Aah!

There was a boy who lived in a bubble
He traveled three thousand miles for love
A classic tale of glory and rubble
A conflict old as the stars above

[ENSEMBLE WOMAN]
The Sumerians had the story of Gilgamesh

[A DIFFERENT ENSEMBLE WOMAN]
The Greeks had one about their war with Troy

[ALL]
But we
Lucky we
Blessed we
Have the epic known as Bubble Boy!

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
My son, Jimmy, was born one cold December day
As soon as he popped out, the doctors whisked him away
They said my boy had no immune system
I never held him, I never kissed him
He could be killed by just one germ
What do I blame?
My husband's weak sperm

[DOCTOR, spoken]
Actually, Mrs. Livingston, that's not actually medically ac-

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
Don't lecture me, my son's a

[ALL]
Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
Then one day we brought him home to be back with his mom
Back to our three bedroom house in Palm Dale!

[ENSEMBLE]
Glorious
Ooh, wonderful Palm Dale!
Florida's Palm Dale!

[MRS. LIVINGSTON, spoken]
It's a wicked world out there, Jimmy. But now you're safe inside, and you never EVER have to go out there again. And do you know what that makes you? The luckiest boy in the world!

[JIMMY]
I'm the luckiest boy in the world

[ENSEMBLE]
He's the luckiest boy in the world

[JIMMY]
I never have to go outside
Where germs and microbes like to hide
And strangers offer you a ride
Oh, no. I'm the luckiest boy in the world

[ENSEMBLE]
He's the luckiest boy in the world

[MRS. LIVINGSTON, spoken]
And the prince climbed up Rapunzel's hair to the top of the tower, and said, 'Come with me, and we'll live happily ever after.' Then Rapunzel left her plastic bubble, and *died*. The end.

(sung)
I exposed him to all the good things I could find

[JIMMY, spoken]
I wish *Highlights* wasn't the only magazine in the world, mom.

[MRS. LIVINGSTON, spoken]
So do I, dear.

(sung)
To build a healthy body and a healthy mind

[JIMMY, spoken]
I wish *VeggieTales* wasn't the only TV show in the world, mom.

[MRS. LIVINGSTON, spoken]
So do I, dear.

(sung)
So maybe I fibbed more than I should
But it was all for the greater good
Don't you judge me, my son's a

[ALL]
Bubble Boy!
Bubble Boy!

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
And now my boy's a teen, but there's no cause to mourn
I've kept him pure and clean as the day he was born

[JIMMY]
I'm the luckiest boy in the world

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
He's the luckiest boy in the world

[JIMMY]
I never have to go out there
Where people point and people stare
And breathe diseases in the air
And people laugh, and people swear
And throw their garbage every where
And people cry and people care
And feel the wind rush through their hair
I'm the luckiest boy in the world

[ENSEMBLE]
He's the luckiest boy in the world

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
You may believe the things that I've done
You'd never do to your daughter or son
But you're not me, my son's a

[ENSEMBLE]
Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy
Bubble, bubble
Boy!

[MRS. LIVINGSTON]
A boy in a bubble!
Stay out of trouble!