[Lyric] Jolly Rich and Fat (Cast of A Christmas Carol)

[speaker 1?]
Had a good year?

[speaker 2?]
A very good year sir

[speaker 1?]
Nothing I care to rearrange

[speaker 2?]
Holiday best, holiday cheer sir

[speaker 1?]
Gentlemen of the Royal Exchange

[speakers 1+2?]
Powerful men [?]
Giving our pockets one more pat
And with Christmas getting here
It's [?] jolly, rich, and fat
Give to the poor

[ speaker 3?]
Certainly sir

[MR. SMYTHE]
Don't worry children we'll find him

Excuse me sir, I'm looking for Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge

[speaker?]
Oh look over there

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
Merry old wives
Snuffy and jolly
[?] around this Christmas morn

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
This Christmas morn

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
Giving out gifts
Handing out porridge
Spending the most enormous sums
[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Generous mеn
[?]
Generous when wе pass a hat

[ENSEMBLE]
[?] being Jolly, rich, and fat

[speakers 1+2?]
Give to the poor?

[speaker?]
With pleasure

[MR. SMYTHE, spoken]
When will Mr. Scrooge arrive?

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Thank the Lord our [?]

[speakers?]
He should be here in three sir
And better you than me sir

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Thank the Lord we're not in debt to Scrooge
[speaker?]
Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge

[SCROOGE, spoken]
Merry Christmas, my dear sir every idiot who goes about Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding
Crachit?

[CRACHIT, spoken]
Yes sir?

[SCROOGE, spoken]
You'll want tomorrow off I suppose?

[CRACHIT, spoken]
Well if it's quite convenient sir

[SCROOGE, spoken]
It is not convenient

[MR. SMYTHE, spoken]
Pardon me Mr. Scrooge
May I speak with you a moment sir?

[SCROOGE, spoken]
Speak swiftly, the exchange is closing early

[MR. SMYTHE]
Mr. Scrooge my wife has died

(spoken)
I need to pay her funeral expenses

[SCROOGE, spoken]
And what Mr. Smythe?

[MR. SMYTHE]
Sir I need more time to pay you

[SCROOGE, spoken]
Am I a charity? Am I the state?
Your mortgage is due tomorrow morning at 9 AM

[MR. SMYTHE]
Please sir what about my children?

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Scrooge says nay sir

[MR. SMYTHE]
Christmas day sir

[SCROOGE, spoken]
Christmas, sir, is a humbug

[ENSEMBLE]
Gasp

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
Skinny and mean
Rotten old geezer

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Never a kindly word or deed
Skinny and cold

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
Old Ebenezer
Never would help a friend in need

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Locking his doors

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
Drawing his curtains

[ENSEMBLE]
Adding up one more stack of gold
Never saw a sadder sight
There's no one quite as dingy, mean, and cold

[CHARITY MEN]
Bless you sir

[ENSEMBLE]
Thank the Lord our losses have been slim

[SCROOGE]
You owe me interest Peter
Your payments overdue sir

[ENSEMBLE]
Thank the Lord we're not in debt to him

[SCROOGE]
If you don't plan to pay sir
The law will find a way sir

[ENSEMBLE]
[?]
Never a thought of Christmas day
Checking his watch
[?]

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
How'd he ever get that way?

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Taking their gold

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
Starving the children

[ENSEMBLE]
How could he do a thing like that?
Never saw a sight to match it
What a pity, what a-

[SCROOGE, spoken]
Crachit

[ENSEMBLE]
Jolly that we're jolly, rich, and fat