The Frogs: Parodos: The Frogs

[FROGS]
Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!

[XANTHIAS, spoken]
What's that?

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Frogs

[FROGS]
Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!

[XANTHIAS, spoken]
The river is full of them!

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Ignore them. They'll just try to spoil everything

[FROGS]
Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!

Brek-kek-kek
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!
Ko-ax!

Brek-kek kek-kek kek-kek kek-kek
Ko-ax!
Rib-et rib-et
Ko-ax!
Brek-kek kek-kek...

Whaddya think it is, mice?
Well, dummy, think twice!
Brek-kek-kek! Brek-kek-kek! (Ko-ax!)
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek! (Ko-ax!)
What have eyes that pop?
What have skins that glisten?
What have feet that plop?
Elephants?
No, listen, listen, listen, listen:
Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek kek-kek kek-kek!
Ko-ax!
Rib-et rib-et!
Brek-kek-kek-kek...
Right!

Frogs!
We're the frogs!
The adorable frogs! (Ko-ax!)
Not your hoity-toity intellectuals
Not your hippy-dippy homosexuals
Just your easy-going, simple
Warm-hearted, cold-blooded
Frogs
Of the pond
And the fronds we never go beyond
When you rearrange a single frond
We respond
With a
Pfft!
Rek-kek-kek-kek!
Blech!
Brek-kek-kek-kek
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!
Ko-ax!
Rib-et rib-et
Brek-kek-kek-kek...
Bur-rup bur-rup bur-rup
Ko-ax!

Brek-kek-kek-kek! Brek-kek-kek-kek!
What do you care the world's a wreck?
Leave 'em alone, send 'em a check
Sit in the sun and what the heck
What do you wanna break your neck for?
What for?
Big deal!
Big bore!

Forget your troubles
Wallow with us
Squat and take a mud bath!
What's it get you
Making a fuss?
Just another blood-bath!

Aw!
Boo-hoo!
Oh, pshaw!
What's new?

Forget your troubles
Wallow with us
Squat and take a mud bath!

[FROGS, in five GROUPS, in canon:]

(1)
What's it get 'em, making a fuss?
Just another blood bath!
Forget your troubles
Wallow with us
Squat and take a mud bath!
What's it get 'em, making a fuss?
Just another blood bath!

We seen it
We heard it
We been there
We know it already

We seen it
We heard it
We been there
We know it already

We seen it
We heard it
We been there
We know it already

We seen it
We heard it
We been there
We know it already

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of

(2)
Brek-kek-kek-kek! Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Whaddya care the world's a wreck?
Leave 'em alone, send 'em a check
Sit in the sun and what the heck

Brek-kek-kek-kek! Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Whaddya care the world's a wreck?
Leave 'em alone, send 'em a check
Sit in the sun and what the heck

Brek-kek-kek-kek! Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek!

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a scream

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily

(3)
Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a scream

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a scream

Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a scream

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a scream

Row row row your boat

(4)
Row row row your boat gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a scream

Row row row your boat gently down the stream

Tote dat barge and lift that crud
You gets a little drunk and you lands in mud

You and he
You sweat and strain
Body all achin' and ---

(5)
You and he
You sweat and strain
Body all achin' and racked wid' pain

Who cares if the sky
Cares to fall in the swamp?
Who cares if the sky
Cares to fall in the

[ALL FROGS]
Brek-kek-kek-kek! Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Everyone knows the world's a wreck
Why do you want to break your neck?
To send a check? And what the heck?
Who in the world are you saving the world for?

For the frogs!
For the frogs!
For the bumps on the logs! (Ko-ax!)
Not for fancy pants humanitarians
Not for chatty platitudinarians
But for easy-going, simple, jocular
Ocular frogs
Who can thrive
Just by staying friendly and alive
When there's any trouble, we survive
We just dive and go
Blep blep blep blep!
Blep blep blep blep!

Blep blep blep blep blep blep blep blep blep blep!
Ko-ax!

Blep blep blep blep blep blep blep!
Ko-ax!
Rib-et rib-et
Ko-ax!
Blep blep blep blep...

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Do you know who I am? I am Dionysos! I happen to be a god! I am on a great mission, so show some respect!
Stop that. Stop rocking the boat!
Ohh frogs can be so annoying!

[FROGS]
Brek-kek-kek-kek!
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!

Brek-kek-kek
Brek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek!
Ko-ax!

Brek-kek kek-kek kek-kek kek-kek
Ko-ax!
Rib-et rib-et
Ko-ax!
Brek-kek kek-kek...

Stay with the frogs
With the frogs (What do you care the world's a wreck?)
With the wits of the bogs! (Leave 'em alone, send 'em a check)
Not your hippy dippy insurrectionists
Not your hasty pasty-faced perfectionists
(What do you care the world's a wreck?)
Stay with the easy-going, simple, rollicking
(Leave 'em alone, send 'em a check)
Frolicking

Frogs
In the reeds
Leave the world alone and count the weeds
While the world may not know what it needs
It proceeds
And in time
Will be
Sublime
All bogs
And weeds
And frogs
And beautiful slogs
Brek-kek kek-kek kek-kek kek-kek
Kek-kek kek-kek kek-kek kek-kek
Ko-ax!