boe boe n#oe boe tm b oetm oe bold and strong! break (breaking the tension) breed-ing bring us bring us rain! but fear but it's a call their bluff. can't hear you! ceremoniously, pointing chorus 1 chorus 1 & chorus 1* chorus 2 chorus 2* chow. cious cloud colla voce (conversational) "come, harem." come on, 'cos could - n't be great - er. - cra cresc. poco a poco cri - sis crown. dear, de - sired. didn't take did - n't they? dik. dikeledi di - stress. don't have long! each each de - li earth! east, emp - ty e - quals i shall treat you. everybody fast and lively q = 140 faster q = 120 fast q = 140 fa - ther! f brightly feed - ing, fe - stoes, f (excited) ff pesante ff subito f ndanga the zebra fol - low. for - get these bits of fluff, for the fu - ture! from his fellow hippos. from the west ga the gives you a bunch good e - nough. got what they grandly has - n't it? head - line girl. hear heart! help! he's the tops. aah high temp - 'ra - tures. hip - po hip - po's hippos & oe hobo steps up and presents himself. ho - bo's the hip po hobo stomps off, embarrassed. hobo wipes his brow hol - low. humbu sees the platform, awning and signs. (increasingly excited) inspecting the scene in the sky. i should wear the i should wear the crown. is our its! its are ang - ry. journalists kipling the hornbill and j tmoe oe just just jo - king; king! king, eh? kip. kip. & kipling and dikeledi kip. & oe koni koni exits towards (koni the rhino has koni (to himself) la - dies, lect is let's let's choose our let us come a - mong you lionesses / animals long! lower their hooves. ma -ny cen - tu -ries of may - be not meerkats me you should fol - low; mf all animals mf bello mf dolce mf ndanga mf tau mf (to the animals) mf zebras mi - moy mock-lunge at the mo -cra - cy mo - ther! mp bello mp dikeledi (to kipling) mp meerkats must "na - ture's red in nboe n -dan - ga. ndanga & ndanga steps forward. need our ne - tha, news! nice a - gain, ### nnoe tmtm nnoe tmtm nnoe tmtm cresc. no - ble noej oe & noe noe noe n oe & # noe oeoe noeoe tmtmtm ? ### noe tm & noe tm noe tm noe tm oe ? ### noe tm oej ### noetm oej ### noe tmtm noe tmtm noew tm no rain, not! not a not quite what they seem. oe 4 oetm oe bb tmtm oej noe tm oej oetm oe n noe oe noe tm oe oej oetm oe oej oetm- oetm ? ## oetm & oetm # oetm oetm oe (off-stage left) pp (off-stage right) pp once more! our first can - di - date out! paw in victory. percussion only plan! p marcato p ndanga goes off in shame. pno. p nodding sagely po - li - ti -cians don't pro - mise, each dream, p sempre, legato p (to the animals) rain! raise their hooves. growls. real - ly can - not wait rev. 1 - ries right now, save the day! say what? say what?! [scene change] sempre cresc. set us free! si - kha sim. accents si -than - da slow slow but sure. slower q = 110 slower, q = 130 slow q = 105 solo 1 & solos ff some more lunges and growls. song: "bring us rain" song: "democracy!" song: "wear the crown" sor - ry, spir strong! sun! sun - shine, swing! tau & tau. tau and the lionesses tau mf tau (spoken): tau struts up pompously. tempo i (q = 140) tenor 8vb tenor 8vb mf ter! ter. tha, tha! (the 4 lionesses prowl on) the animals exit, except the animals tremble. the baobab tree the hip - po, the hip- po the lions leave, with the other hippos, the o - thers, the pub - lic ther ther! the spir they exit. the ze -bra the ze - bra the zebras the zebras quickly thi! this this race?! tion! tion! great (to dik.) to meet you! tooth and claw" tor. (to the audience) (to the lionesses) to the lionesses) turned out (turning on the charm) two or three hippos uad lib. um-sin - up at the sky vass - ing, vote vote! vote for him vo - ters are votes for tau. vo - ting for my foes in - stead we don't have long! we get it? we have our wel - come well, i have some good news. we'll pro - ceed by a show of paws. well, they we'll vote for we need rain! we're sor - ry, what what must we do? what's wrong with this pic - ture? (whinnying excitedly) (whispered, aside, who's will ad - dress us. will save us! will wear the crown. with a wives won - der -ful sto - ry, won - der who will would you want to wal - low, it's zeb - ra. zebras zebras*' />