F-u-n With Broadway's 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'


28 February 2006

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My parents keep on telling me
Just being here is winning.
Although
I know it isn't so.

Very, very nice ...

Very nice beginning.

Putnam County Spelling game -- Bee!
I'll stand when they announce my
name:

His shaking will not pass

'Cause it's a very big,
Very fraught
Simple but it's not
It's a very big undertaking.

In a fancy hotel.

We spell.

If you win the spelling bee.
One's life improves from A to Z
The minute you are crowned here.
I see a trophy held by me!
And when I won
Did I swell?
Oh the stories I could tell!
But braggarts don't do well
Around here.

We memorize the manual ...

Words that require thought.
People think we're automatons.
But that is exactly what we're not.

The slightest bit bizarre.

To concentrate on winning.

At the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
We speak so damn convincingly.

We're living out our dreams.

Very nice, very very very nice

Very very very nice
Very nice
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