[Lyric] The Legend (Danny Abosch, John Maclay)

[MS. WALKER]
The legend begins at this very school
Four score minus seven years ago
Legend has it that there once was a boy
Who found a script in the basement below

The play was called "The Phantom".
It was the scariest of shows
Is that how it started? No one knows
But that's how the legend goes

[TINA]
Legend has it the boy showed his teacher
And the story captured her soul
She vowed the school would perform it
With thе boy in the title role

But bеfore the play could open
A disaster forced it to close
Is that the truth? Well, there are those
Who say that’s how the legend goes
[MS. WALKER]
It's a story, nothing more
Just the stuff of legend and lore
The kind that always follows scary shows

Some swear it with conviction
Others say it's only fiction
Just a rumor, but a rumor always grows
And that’s how the legend goes

[MS. WALKER]
Legend has it that when Abigail applied for funds
The principal refused to grant 'em
But grandmother bravely held her ground
Resolved to produce "The Phantom"

But on the night the play was to open
Well, the curtain never rose
What happened next, I can't disclose
But that's how the legend goes

[BROOKE]
You can't end the story there!

[ZEKE]
Yeah! Tell us! What happened next?
[MS. WALKER]
I'm not sure I should

[TINA]
Well if you won't tell them, I will

The boy playing "Phantom" had vanished!
They searched, but he couldn't be found
And when Ms. Walker tried to make an announcement
She was stopped by a frightening sound:

The most terrible scream rang out!
Every face in the audience froze
Was it him? Well, no one really knows...
But that’s how the legend goes

[MS. WALKER]
The principal closed the production
And demanded the script’s destruction
But one survived, right underneath his nose

And though it was forbidden
Ms. Walker kept it hidden
And when she died, it was found beside a mask and rose…
Or so the legend goes
[TINA]
Ms. Walker, tell them the reeeeally scary part! About the boy!

[MS. WALKER]
Oh, I don't know…

Just remember
It’s a story, nothing more
Just the stuff of legend and lore
But some say his soul remains here in repose

[TINA]
Now he haunts the school where he vanished
To make sure the play stays banished

[MS. WALKER]
That's why some say it's cursed, this play I chose

[ZEKE]
Is it true??

[MS. WALKER]
Well, I suppose
That no one knows
Not even those
Who swear that
That's how the legend

[MS. WALKER/TINA]
That’s how the legend
That's how the legend goes!