Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Celia Keenan-Bolger
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Jay Reiss
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jesse Tyler Ferguson
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Dan Fogler
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Derrick Baskin
William Finn & Jose Llana
William Finn & Sarah Saltzberg
William Finn & Jesse Tyler Ferguson
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Deborah S. Craig
William Finn & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Sarah Saltzberg
William Finn & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Deborah S. Craig
[CONEYBEAR]
The chaotic life
Of a twelve-year-old
Is too hard
And you never know what’s coming next
But in spelling
[SCHWARZY]
Things have logic and line
[CONEYBEAR]
And in spelling
[SCHWARZY]
There’s a greater design
[OLIVE]
Though in school we seem strange
At the bee, we seem better
[CONEYBEAR]
As we count out each letter in our mind
[SCHWARZY]
And we find
[OLIVE]
We like spelling
[CONEYBEAR, SCHWARZY, OLIVE]
People love to hate us
‘Cause we’re too damn smart
[MARCY]
In our hearts we do not believe that we’ll succeed
[CONEYBEAR, SCHWARZY, OLIVE, MARCY]
We’re annoying
[SCHWARZY]
‘Cause we think on our feet
[OLIVE]
I’m enjoying
My new need to compete
[CONEYBEAR]
We love nouns
(spoken)
That’s our sport
(sung)
We love talcum on our towels
[OLIVE]
We love consonants and vowels
And we feel
Kinda real
[CONEYBEAR, SCHWARZY, OLIVE, MARCY]
We like spelling
[BARFEE & MARCY]
I like spelling too
[BARFEE, MARCY, CHIP & CONEYBEAR]
It’s a way to not feel rotten
[CHIP]
All the slights are all forgotten
[OLIVE]
And you feel almost normal
[SPELLERS]
We are fearless spellers who love scary words
We’re the nerds with the dictionary on our knees
[MARCY]
Underrate us
[BARFEE]
With our chronic congestion
[MARCY]
Or debate us
[BARFEE, spoken]
That’s a stupid suggestion!
[SCHWARZY]
‘Cause we’ll pummel your butt
When we prove who knows what
[CONEYBEAR]
Though we’re frightened by the sound of the bell
[The bell sounds and the SPELLERS scream.]
[SPELLERS]
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love spelling
[CHIP]
I loved spelling too
That's before I choked on "Tittup"
Losing that word brought so much shit up
That I’ll never recover!
[SPELLERS]
The chaotic life
Of a twelve-year-old
Is too hard
And you never know what’s coming next
But in spelling
Things have logic and line
And in spelling
There’s a greater design
[OLIVE]
Though in school we seem strange
At the bee we seem better
[GIRL SPELLERS]
As we count out each letter in our mind
[SPELLERS]
And we find
We love spelling
It makes us feel normal
We like spelling
Why We Like Spelling was written by William Finn.
Why We Like Spelling was produced by Joel Moss & Kurt Deutsch.
William Finn released Why We Like Spelling on Tue May 31 2005.