No Way To Stop It 1959 SOMusic

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 Mar 2013
2013

[Elsa:] You dear attractive dewyeyed idealist
Today you have to learn to be a realist,
[Max:] You may be bent on doing deeds
of derrindo.
But up against a shark,
what can a herring do?
[Elsa:] Be wise, compromise!
[Captain:] Compromise and be wise!
[Elsa:] Let them think you're on their side,
be non committal.
[Captain:] I will not bow my head
to the men I despise.
[Max:] You won't have to bow your head
just stoop a little.
[Elsa:] Why not learn to put your faith
and your reliance
on an obvious and simple fact of science?

[Elsa:] A crazy planet full of crazy people
Is somersaulting all around the sky,
and ev'ry time it turns another somersault
another day goes by!
And there's no way to stop it,
no, there's no way to stop it,
no, you can't stop it even if you try.
So I'm not going to worry,
no, I'm not going to worry
ev'ry time I see another day go by.

[Max:] While somersaulting at a cockeyed angle,
we make a cockeyed circle 'round the sun.
And when we circle back to where we started from
another year has run.
And there's no way to stop it,
no, there's no way to stop it
if the earth wants to roll around the sun!
You're a fool if you worry,
you're a fool if you worry
over anything but little Number One!

[Captain:] That's you!
[Elsa:] That's I.
[Max:] And I.
[Captain:] And me!
That all absorbing character!
[Elsa:] That fascinating creature!
[Max:] That superficial feature...
[All:] Me!

[Captain:] So ev'ry star and ev'ry whirling planet,
And ev'ry constellation in the sky
revolve around the centre of the universe
a lovely thing called
[Spoken:] I!
[Max and Elsa:} And there's no way to stop it,
no, there's no way to stop it
and I know though I cannot tell you why,
That as long as I'm living
[All:] Just as long as I'm living
there'll be nothing else as wonderful as I!
I I I
nothing else as wonderful as I.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
tymp
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No Way To Stop It 1959
from The Stage Version of "The Sound of Music"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
© 1959 by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
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This song was omitted from the film
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 25 March 2013 at 15.28
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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