Operation: Sha La La

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Operation: Sha La La is officially commenced!

[DOROTHY, spoken]
Miss Asp seems frantic

[YA-YA, spoken]
How do you think my puke effect worked?

[BUZZ, spoken]
Aah! You got your sick all over my new jacket!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
I think it was effective!

[RAT, spoken]
Sheila's probably heading to the bathroom now, about to open the window

[DOROTHY, spoken]
I'm nervous

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Don't be, it's all going according to plan!

[BUZZ, spoken]
Your fathead friend lost her lunch all over my spiffy duds

[RAT, spoken]
Better go clean yourself up before Asp sees you like this

[BUZZ, spoken]
Ah--you girls can't tell me what to do!

[DOROTHY, KITTY, JUDITH, RAT, SUSANNAH, and YA-YA, spoken]
Go!

[MISS ASP, spoken]
What's going on here?

[DOROTHY, spoken]
Cran-Apple Banana Betty with Fruited Gelatin Whip! I'm sure Mr. Rusk won't even noticе it's... overdone

[MISS ASP, spoken]
In Nation, we call it brownеd

[DOROTHY, spoken]
Well... everywhere else, we call it burned

[DOROTHY, KITTY, JUDITH, RAT, SUSANNAH, and YA-YA scream]

[MISS ASP, spoken]
Aaah! Why are you screaming?!

[RAT, spoken]
Because we're so fucking excited!

[BUZZ, spoken]
Sheila got sick on me but now the smell of it is making me feel sick...

[MISS ASP, spoken]
No! If you must eliminate, go do so out back!

[JUDITH, spoken]
Buzz can't go out back, he just can't!

[MISS ASP, spoken]
I'm beginning to think something queer is going on around here. You girls really do have powers don't you?! Mark my words, before today is done, you will rue the day you ever crossed Miss Margaret Asp

[BUZZ, spoken]
Miss Asp, look! She was out back running towards the street and I tackled her!

[MISS ASP, spoken]
You have made a mockery of Nation for the last time. All of you

(door buzzer goes off)

[SHEILA, spoken]
Aren't you gonna get that? It's Life Magazine

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry

[SHEILA, spoken]
It's okay, but what are we gonna do?!

[JUDITH]
Asp is going to kill us now

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Life will save us, the reporter is here, we'll tell him about Harriet and he'll check the files and--and call the police, and--

[MISS ASP, spoken]
There's been a riot at Ole Miss University. Western Union delivered the telegram. S-several are dead. And... Mr.--Rusk has been assigned to the story. Life Magazine is not coming. Not now... n-n-not ever.

[DOROTHY, spoken]
M-maybe another magazine can visit us. Better... Prisons and Gardens, maybe?

[MISS ASP, spoken]
You've ruined it. You girls. F-from the future

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
We're not from the future. We are the future

[MISS ASP, spoken]
You m-must be stopped, it's for your own good, Suzy!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
My name is Susannah. And I don't wanna look like Doris Day

[JUDITH, spoken]
Neither do I!

[DOROTHY, KITTY, RAT, SHEILA, and YA-YA, spoken]
Neither do I!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
And I don't want to be the colored, suicidal, ukulele-playing June Cleaver. I'm the Black, weird Susannah Son

[DOROTHY, KITTY, JUDITH, RAT, SHEILA, & YA-YA, spoken]
That's right, Susannah! (Dorothy), Yes she is!, etc

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
You can't force us to be something we don't want to be

[DOROTHY, KITTY, JUDITH, RAT, SHEILA, & YA-YA, spoken]
Not anymore! (Kitty), Yeah!, We won't be silenced!, No!, etc

[MISS ASP, spoken]
You think I had it easy?! You think the things done to me weren't as cruel and hateful as things done to all of you?! I had no choice!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Well you've got one now, Margaret! You're either with us or you're against us

[MISS ASP, spoken]
I just wanted a photograph! Can't you all just go away?!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
We will not disappear!

[SUSANNAH, sung]
I just wanna transcend
I won't stop until
They can all comprehend
That we are not ill

I already know that I'm whole
Not something inbetween
Now, the number one goal
Is I just wanna be seen
I just wanna be seen

[MISS ASP, spoken]
Give me that ukulele!

[SHEILA, spoken]
No!

[INMATES, sung (Chorus)]
S-T-O-P (Hey!)
You won't touch my family
H-A-T-E (Hey!)
Will not take my love from me

[JUDITH, spoken]
Hey, Buzz! Still wanna cop a feel?!

[BUZZ, spoken]
Aaah!

[INMATES, sung]
Revolution in the institution
Evolution in the institution
Revolution in the institution
Evolution in the institution
Revolution in the institution
Evolution in the institution
Revolution in the institution
Evolution in the institution

[MISS ASP, spoken]
You can revolt all you want, but Nation still stands!

[SUSANNAH, spoken]
Not for long it doesn't. Hit it, Ya-Ya!

[YA-YA, spoken]
This is for Harriet you son of a bitch!

[INMATES, sung (SHEILA and SUSANNAH, sung)]
Hate nation is coming down
It's coming down tonight
Hate nation is coming down (Freedo-)
We're putting up a fight (-om)
Soon it'll be everything (Freedo-)
That we've been dreaming of (-om)

Hate nation will be erased (Freedo-) and be replaced (-om)
With love