Someone Woke Up
Elizabeth Allen * Track #1 On Do I Hear a Waltz? (Original 1965 Broadway Cast Recording)
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- #1Someone Woke Up
Elizabeth Allen
- #2This Week Americans
Carol Bruce
- #3What Do We Do? We Fly!
Original Broadway Cast of Do I Hear a Waltz?
- #4Someone Like You
Sergio Franchi
- #5Bargaining
Sergio Franchi & Elizabeth Allen
- #6Here We Are Again
Original Broadway Cast of Do I Hear a Waltz?
- #7Thinking
Sergio Franchi & Elizabeth Allen
- #8No Understand
Original Broadway Cast of Do I Hear a Waltz?
- #9Take the Moment
Sergio Franchi
- #10Moon in My Window
Original Broadway Cast of Do I Hear a Waltz?
- #11We’re Gonna Be All Right
Original Broadway Cast of Do I Hear a Waltz?
- #12Do I Hear a Waltz?
Elizabeth Allen
- #13Stay
Sergio Franchi
- #14Perfectly Lovely Couple
Original Broadway Cast of Do I Hear a Waltz?
- #15Thank You So Much
Sergio Franchi & Elizabeth Allen
Someone Woke Up by Elizabeth Allen
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Elizabeth AllenSomeone Woke Up Lyrics
[LEONA]
Someone woke up one incredible day
Had an idea and was prompted to say:
"Let's build a city; where should it be?
How about the middle of that sea?"
Someone drew plans like a set for a stage
Someone spilled colors all over the page
Then they built it, Cookie, you know why?
Just so Leona could come here and cry
[MAURO, spoken]
Lady, you want a guide?
[LEONA, spoken]
Can you take me to the Pensione Fioria?
[MAURO, spoken]
Sì, this way!
[LEONA]
Some people cry at hellos and farewells
Some people cry at nostalgia with bells
Some cry at weddings, some at the moon
I cry promptly Mondays at high noon
[MAURO, spoken]
Lady, this way!
[LEONA]
Some people cry at Vienna or Rome
This one is mine, Cookie, this one is home
Look, they even painted the damn sky
Just so Leona could come here and cry
[MAURO, spoken]
Lady, let's go! Lady! Lady, let's go! Lady, this way! Lady, let's go!
[LEONA]
Let's build a city; where should it be?
How about the middle of that sea?
[MAURO, spoken]
Lady, listen! Lady! Lady!
[VENICIAN MAN, spoken]
Hey, lady, look out, you're gonna fall in!
[MAURO, spoken]
Jump!
(Leona falls into the canal. People on the street of Venice laugh at her.)
[LEONA]
Some people cry when they see their old pals
Me, I'm a sucker for chimes and canals
Look, they even painted the damn sky
Just so Leona could come here
And stand like a lump, dripping wet with no shoes on
At noon on a Monday
And cry
Someone Woke Up Q&A
Who wrote Someone Woke Up's ?
Someone Woke Up was written by Richard Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim.
What did Elizabeth Allen say about "Someone Woke Up"?
From Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat:
Trick of the trade: To intensify the emotion at the end of the song, establish an image or set of images which can be repeated throughout the lyric, and then extend them at the climax, but unrhymed. This makes it seem as if the character’s feelings are getting out...