Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot, the Musical

Song Title Characters #Stars Look DownShineGrandma’s SongSolidarityExpressing YourselfThe LetterBorn to BoogieMerry Christmas Maggie ThatcherDeep Into the GroundHe Could Be a StarElectricityOnce We Were KingsThe Letter (Reprise)Finale

Stars Look Down

MENThrough the dark

And through the hungerThrough the night

And through the fearThrough the fight

And years of hardshipThrough the storms

And through the tearsAnd although your feet are weary

And although your soul is wornAnd although they'll try to break you

And although you'll feel aloneWe will always stand together

In the dark, right through the stormWe will stand, shoulder to shoulder

To keep us warm

COMPANYAnd the stars look down on the mean and hungry

And the stars look down and show the wayAnd the stars look down and we'll stand together to see a day

When the stars look down upon our historyWhen the stars look down upon our past

And the stars look down and see a future bright at lastWhen we'll stand as one, beneath the sun

And though our hands are bruised and bleedingAnd our lungs are full with dust

And our hearts are near to breakingWe will never forgo the trust

We will fight through pain and hungerEvery arrow, every knife

We will never give the hope upOf a proud and honest life

So we will always stand togetherThrough the frost, the hail, the snow

The stars are our redemptionAnd some know

The stars look down when we're abandonedLook down in the heart of night

And the stars look down and give us visionTo see the light

The stars look down upon our struggleThe stars look down and know the past

The stars look down and see a future bright at lastWhen we'll stand as one, beneath the sun

All out togetherAll out as one

All out for victoryTill we've won


All out for victoryAll out till we've won

MICHAELBilly, do you know why they’re on strike, like?

BILLYIt’s to do with Maggie Thatcher, innit?

MICHAELWhy, what’s she done, like?

BILLYFucked if I know!

MICHAELSee you at Boxing!

BILLYYeah!

MICHAELSee you, Billy

BILLYYeah, see you Michael!

Take me up and hold me gentlyRaise me up and hold me high

Through the nights under darknessWill come a day when we will fly

And although we've been rejectedAnd although we've been outcast

We will find a new tomorrowWhen we come to rest at last

And we will stand there proudlyAnd we will never walk alone

And we will be returnedBack to our home

COMPANYAnd the stars look down at their reflectionAnd the stars look down and there's a light

When the stars look down they'll see the justice and the rightAnd the stars look down and see the struggleAnd the stars look down and know the pain

And the stars will lead to where light shines againWhere we'll stand as one beneath the sun

One beneath the sun

GROUP #1When we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as oneWhen we stand as one

GROUP #2All out togetherAll out as one





All out for victory

COMPANYAll out till we've won

Shine

MRS WILKINSONMorning girls

GIRLSMorning Mrs Wilkinson

MRS WILKINSONTry to keep your arm in line

Come on at least pretend you're doing fineYou can wow 'em every time

All you have to do is shineForget about content

Focus on styleSteal an inch on them

And they'll give you a mileAnd smile, smile, smile, smile

It doesn't matter if you're large or smallTrapezoid, or short or tall

Even if you can't dance at allAll you really have to do is shine

It doesn't matter if your life's a messThe whole process will coalesce

Girls, just try to effervesceAll you really have to do is shine

Give 'em the old razzle dazzleTurn on the old pizzazz

There won't be time to shilly shallyGive it backbone, give it wellyBowl 'em over, knock 'em outShow 'em what life is all aboutGive them the old razzle dazzle

And shine

It doesn't matter if you're unemployedOnly partially humanoid

An octopoid whose mind's a voidAll you really have to do is shine

It doesn't matter if you're special needsMaimed or lame, or born in Leeds

They love to see a heart that bleedsAll you really have to do is shine

Give 'em the old razzle dazzleTurn on the old pizzazz

There won't be time to shilly shally

Give it backbone, give it wellyBowl 'em over, knock 'em outShow 'em what life is all aboutGive them the old razzle dazzle

And shine

You might be feeling lousyYou might be feeling blue

A little apprehensiveA minor touch of flu

They couldn't give a monkey's cussThey couldn't give a figCome on son get over it

It's all part of the gig

Give 'em the old rinkle tinkleGive 'em the old kabam

Knock 'em sideways blow their minds outThere's no time for half time frolics

Grab the buggers by the bollocksShow 'em what class is all aboutGive 'em that old razzle dazzle

And shine

Lights!

Doesn't matter if you're short or squatCerebrally challenged, completely shot

You might have it or might notAll you really have to do is

All you really have to do is shineGive 'em that old razzle dazzle and shineGive 'em that old razzle dazzle and shine

And shineAnd shine

Grandma’s Song

BILLYGrandma, do you really not remember about Grandad?

GRANDMACourse I do! How could I forget your Grandad, Billy? We were marred thirty-three year

BILLYSo what was he like, like?

GRANDMAHe was a complete bastard!

I hated the sod, for thirty-three yearWe should never have married of that I’m quite clear

He spent the housekeeping money on whisky and beerAnd never lifted a finger

Times were hard, but the swine rolled back pissedSo we’d fight and he’d swing and he rarely missed

So I’d clobber the sod when he couldn’t resist:Asleep, you can’t lift a finger

But we’d go dancing… and he’d hold me tightHe was air, he was water, he was breath, he was light

And he would hold me there, with all his mightAnd it was bliss for an hour or soBut then they called time to go

And in the morning we were sober

Oh he’d drink and he’d talk just like a foolLie like a bairn and snore like a mule

Rarely was sober, pretty much was the ruleAnd he never lifted a finger

I suppose times were hard, things were different thenWomen were women and men, they were men

Seventeen that was it, your life ended when you had a ring around your finger

But we’d go dancing, he was me own BrandoAnd for a moment there my heart was a-glow

We had dust in our hair and nowhere to goBoo we were free for an hour or three

From the people we had to beBut in the morning we were sober

But if I went through my time againOh I’d do it without the help of men

Or at least your GrandadBut then again, you know

Best not to linger

What is the use of dreaming now?

I had my chance, well anyhowIf I’d only known then what I know now

I’d’ve given them all the finger

And gone dancing, and got give a shitAnd spin around and reel and love each bit

And I’d dance alone and enjoy itAnd I’d be me for an entire life

Instead of somebody’s wifeAnd I never would be soberAnd I never would be sober

Solidarity

POLICEOi Geordie

Wanna see somethingYou’ve never seen before

And that’s just off the overtimeWanna see some more?

MINERSYou think yer smart ya cockney shite

You wanna be suspiciousWhen you were on the picket lineWe went and fucked yer missus

All of us at once

Solidarity, solidaritySolidarity forever

All for one and one for allSolidarity forever


All for one and one for allSolidarity forever

POLICEKeep it up till Christmas lads

It means a lot to usWe send our kids to private school

On a private bus

We’ve got a lot to thank you forGeordie you’re a corker

A nice extension on the house and a fortnight in MajorcaSolidarity, solidarity

Solidarity forever

MINERSDon’t worry lads we’re on your side

Solidarity foreverSolidarity, solidarity

Solidarity foreverWe’re proud to be working class

Solidarity forever

GIRLSSolidarity, solidarity


Solidarity forever

POLICEYou fucking wormsYou fucking moles

You fucking Geordie shitsWe’re here to kick your Geordie arse

You little Geordie gits

MINERSWe’re terrifiedWe’re petrified

Those words are so obsceneWe’ll boot your fuckin’ cockney skulls

Right back to Bethnal Green

MINERS & GIRLSAnd one, two, three

And two, two, three etc.

MINERSSolidarity, solidarity


Solidarity foreverSolidarity, solidarity


Solidarity forever

MINERSCome on lads get at them

Really get stuck inIt’s tutu bleeding tea dance

Do the fuckers in


Solidarity foreverWe're proud to be working class

Solidarity forever


We're proud to be working classSolidarity forever

MRS WILKINSONShine, just shine

All you have to do is shine (etc.)

GIRLS1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Etc.


Solidarity foreverWe're proud to be working class

Solidarity forever

Ever, ever, ever, everEver, ever, ever, even

Forever, foreverForever, forever

Expressing Yourself

Is it sinful if you’re blue to cheer up the place?What is wrong with dressing up in satin and lace?Get some earrings, some mascara, heels and a fanPretty soon you will start to feel a different man

What the hell’s wrong with expressing yourself?Being who you want to be?

Will anybody die if you put on a dress?Who the hell cares if your blusher’s a mess?

Start a new fashion, buck all the trendsEmphasise integrity

‘Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourselfFor wanting to be me?

BILLYWhat the hell’s wrong with wearing a dress?

Being who you wanna be?

MICHAELWho the hell is it you try to impress

All you have to do is learn to care lessStart a new fashion, buck all the trends

Billy, sing something to me

What the hell is wrong with expressing yourself?For trying to be free

If you wanna be a dancer, danceIf you wanna be a miner, mine

If you want to dress like somebody elseFine, fine, fine

It’s not a big statement, it’s not a weird actJust a good idea at the time

We’ll not complain about your boring lifeIf you’ll just leave me to mine

If you wanna be a dancer, danceIf you wanna be a miner, mine

Everyone is differentIt’s the natural state

It’s the facts, it’s plain to seeThe world’s grey enough without making it worse

What we need is individuality

The Letter

BILLYAnd I will have missed you growing

And I’ll have missed you cryingAnd I’ll have missed you laugh

Missed your stomping and your shoutingI’ll have missed telling you off

But please BillyKnow that I was always there

I was with you through everythingAnd please, Billy

MRS WILKINSONBut please, Billy

Know that I will always beProud to have known youProud that you were mine

Proud in everythingAnd you must promise me this, Billy

BILLY’S MUMIn everything you do

Always be yourself, BillyAnd you always will be true

And I’ll’ve missed you growingI’ll’ve missed you crying

And I’ll’ve missed you laugh

BILLY’S MUM & MRS WILKINSONMissed your stomping and your shouting

I’ll’ve missed telling you offBut please, Billy

Know that I was always thereI was with you through everything

And please, BillyKnow that I will always beProud to have known you

BILLY’S MUMLove you forever

BILLYLove you forever

Born to Boogie

We weren’t born to stand stillAin’t a question of willGotta move it’s a fact

You were born to reactYou weren’t made to behave

Like you will in the grave

Where music is playedOh the soul, will be swayed

And your feet they will moveAs if only to prove

That it wasn’t by chanceWe were destined to dance

We were born to boogieWe were born to boogie

It ain’t a puzzle‘Cause we’re blood and muscle

From the day of creationWe were the dance sensationCome on and shake per bootie‘Cause we were born to boogie

Anyone can get it‘Cause we’re born kinetic

Come on and Mash Potat-aThe way God made pa

Your feet and your handsOh your toes and your glands

Your eyes and your chinYour face and your skin

Oh your brawn and your brainsYour balls and your chains

We were born to boogieWe were born to boogie

It ain’t a puzzleCoo we’re blood and muscle

From the day of creationWe were the dance sensation

BRAITHWAITECome on and shake yer bonnie

We were born to boogieAnyone can get it

We were born kinetic

Come on and “Mash Potat-a”The way God made ya

We were born to boogieWe’re all born to

We came up from the oceanIn full locomotion

And when we hit the groundWe just danced around

Because they sayIt’s in the DNA

We were born to boogieWe were born to boogieWe were born to boogie

We’re-all-born-to-boogie!

Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher

TONYCan you hear it in the distance?

Can you sense it far away?

GEORGEIs it old Rudolph the Reindeer?

Is it Santa on his sleigh?

TONY & GEORGEIt’s heading up to EasingtonIt’s coming down the Tyne

Oh! It’s bloody Maggie Thatcher and Michael Heseltine!So Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher

May God’s love be with youWe all sing together in one breath

Merry Christmas Maggie ThatcherWe all celebrate today

‘Cause it’s one day closer to your death

They’ve come to raid your stockingsAnd to steal your Christmas pudBut don’t be too down hearted

It’s all for your own goodThe economic infrastructure

Must be swept awayTo make way for business parks and lower rates of pay, so

Merry Christmas, Maggie ThatcherMay God's love be with you

We all sing together in one breathMerry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher

We all celebrate todayCos it's one day closer to your death

And they've brought their fascist boot boysAnd they've brought the boys in blueAnd the whole Trade Union Congress

Will be at the party tooAnd they'll all hold hands together

All standing in a lineCos they're privatising Santa

This merry Christmas time, so...Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher

May God's love be with youWe all sing together in one breathMerry Christmas Maggie Thatcher

We all celebrate todayCoo its one day closer to your death

Merry Christmas Maggie ThatcherMay God's love be with you

We all sing together in one breathMerry Christmas Maggie Thatcher

We all celebrate todayCoo its one day closer to your death

LITTLE GIRLSOh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, HeseltineYou’re a tosser, you’re a wanker

And you’re just a Tory Swine

Deep Into the Ground

Oh once I was a young manLooked over vales and hills

Saw myself a future

Of riches and of thrillsBut on me fifteenth birthday

I paid my union duesAnd they sent me deep into the ground

Oh the winter wind can blow me colderOh the summer’s heat can parch me dry

But I’ll not leave here for a fortuneI shall never leave here till I die

Oh once I had a familySons to make you proud

They have gone and left me nowAnd I count the time out loud

For now I am an old manJust waiting for my turn

Till they take me back into the ground

Oh the winter wind can blow me colderOh the summer’s heat can parch me dry

But I’ll not leave here for a fortuneI shall never leave here till I die

Oh the winter wind can blow me colderOh the summer’s heat can parch me dryBut I’ll love these dark, dark hills forever

And I won’t leave them until I die

Oh once I loved a womanShe meant all the world to me

Saw ourselves a futureAs far as I could see

But I was only forty-sevenWhen they took her down from me

And buried her deep

BILLYOh the winter wind can blow me colderOh the summer’s heat can parch me dryBut I’ll love these dark, dark hills foreverAnd I won’t leave them now until I die

He Could Be a Star

DADI couldn’t take it anymore son

It was tearing me apartWe’re lost, we’re finished man, we’re through

I need to give the kid a futureI need to look him in the eye

Believe me son I’d do the same for you

TONYBut you can’t give in now Dad

We’ve all been out a yearI can never talk to you againYou can’t do this to me DadYou can’t do it to yourself

He’s just a kid, he’s only just a bairn

DADHe could be a star for all we knowWe don’t know how far he can go

And no one else can give what I can giveAnd no one else can give what I can give

He could go and he could shineNot just stay here counting time

Son we’ve got the chance to let him liveYes, we’re got the chance to let him live

TONYThis isn’t about us DadIt’s not about the kid

It’s all of us, it’s everybody’s chanceIt’s everybody’s futureIt’s everybody’s past

It’s not about a bairn who wants to dance

It’s about our historyIt’s about our rights

Think about the sacrifice we’ve madeIt’s what you always taught us since I was a lad

Please, Dad, don’t let that passion fade

DADHe could be a star for all we knowWe don’t know how far he can go

And no one else can give what I can giveAnd no one else can give what I can give

MINERSWe’re all in this together Jack

There is another wayAll for one

And one for allTake this and thisAnd this and thisAnd this and thisAnd this and this

Don’t worry, lad, we’ll never let you fall

DAD

He could be a star for all we knowWe don’t know how far he can go

TONYBut we’ll give all that we can giveWe’ll all give all that we can give

MINERSWe will go and we will shineWe will go and seize the time

We will all have pride in how we liveWe will all have pride in how we live

(Yes we’ll all have pride in how we liveYes we’ll all have pride in how we live)

We will always stand togetherThrough the dark and through and through the storm

We will stand shoulder to shoulderTo keep us warm

Electricity

BILLYI can’t really explain it

I haven’t got the wordsIt’s a feeling that you can’t control

I suppose it’s like forgetting, losing who you areAnd at the same time something makes you whole

It’s like that there’s a music playing in my earAnd I’m listening, and I’m listening and then I disappear

And then I feel a changeLike a fire deep inside

Something bursting me wide open, impossible to hideAnd suddenly I’m flying, flying like a bird

Like electricity, electricitySparks inside of me

And I’m free, I’m free

It’s a bit like being angryIt’s a bit like being sad

Confused and all mixed up and mad as hellIt’s like when you’ve been cryingAnd you’re empty and you’re full

I don’t know what it is, it’s hard to tellIt’s like that there’s a music playing in your earBut the music is impossible, impossible to hear

But then I feel it move meLike a burning deep inside

Something bursting me wide open impossible to hideAnd suddenly I’m flying, flying like a bird

Like electricity, electricity

Sparks inside of meAnd I’m free, I’m free

Electricity, sparks inside of meAnd I'm free, I'm free

It's a bit like being angryIt's a bit like being scared

Confused and all mixed up and mad as hellIt's like when you've been cryingAnd you're empty and you're full

I don't know what it is, it's hard to tellIt's like that there's a music playing in your earBut the music is impossible, impossible to hear

But then I feel it move meLike a burning deep inside

Something bursting me wide open impossible to hideAnd suddenly I'm flying, flying like a bird

Like electricity, electricitySparks inside of me

I'm free, I'm free, free, I'm free

Once We Were Kings

MENOnce we built visions on the ground we hewed

We dreamt of justice and of men renewedAll people equal, in all things

We once were heroesOnce were kings

But all great things must come to passWe know the first will soon be lastAnd in the ground we maybe lainBut a seed is sown to rise again

So we walk proudlyAnd we walk strong

All togetherWe will go alone

The ground is emptyAnd cold as hell

But we all go together when we go

We saw a land where wealth was sharedEach pain relieved, each hunger fedEach man revered, each tyrant killed

Each soul redeemed, each life fulfilled

From each mats means to each his needWe saw a time man would be freedWe fought for all the things we saw

The battles lost but not the war

So we walk proudlyAnd we walk strong

All togetherWe will go as one

The ground is emptyAnd cold as hell

But we all go together when we goWe will go down but our heads are proud

We will go down with our voices loudWe will go down but come again

And we will all go together when we goAh, ah, ah

And we all go together when we go

We walk proudly, and we walk strongAll together we will go as one

The ground is empty, and cold as hellBut we all go together when we go





The Letter (Reprise)

BILLYAnd please, Mammy…

Know that I will always beProud to have known youProud that you were mine

Proud in everythingAnd I promise you this, Mammy

In everything I doI’ll always be myself

BILLY’S MUMIn everything you doAlways be yourself

BILLYMammy

And I always will be true

BILLY’S MUM

Love you forever

BILLYLove you forever

BILLY’S MUMLove you forever

BILLYMam!

Finale

It doesn’t matter if you’re large or smallTrapezoid or short or tall

Even if you can’t dance at allAll you really have to do is shine

It doesn’t matter if your life’s a messThe whole process will coalesce

Just try to evervesceAll you really have to do is shine

Everyone is differentIt’s a natural thing

It’s a factIt’s plain to see

The world is grey enoughWithout making it worse

We need individually

‘Cause what the hell is wrongWith expressing yourself

What we need is in-di-vid-u-a-li-ty

Billy Elliot

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