We Can Do It 2000 'The Producers' - Mel Brooks

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 18 Oct 2003

[Max recit:] What did Lewis say to Clark
when ev'rything looked bleak?
What did Sir Edmund say to Tenzing
as they struggled t'ward Everest's peak?
What did Washington say to his troops
before they crossed the Delaware?
I'm sure you're well aware!
[Leo:] What did they say?
[Max:] We can do it! We can do it!
We can do it, me and you!
We can do it! We can do it!
We can make our dreams come true!
Ev'ry thing you've ever wanted
is just waiting to be had.
Beautiful girls wearing nothing but pearls
caressing you, undressing you
and driving you mad!
We can do it! We can do it!
This is not the time to shirk!
We can do it! You won't rue it
say "goodbye" to petty clerk!
Hi, producer! Yes producer!
I mean you sir, go beserk!
We can do it! We can do it!
And I know it's gonna work!
[Max spoken:] Whataya say, Bloom?

[Leo recit:] What do I say?
Fin'lly a chance
to be a Broadway producer.
What do I say?
Fin'lly a chance
to make my dreams come true, sir.
What do I say? What do I say?
Here's what I say to you, sir...

[Leo sings:] I can't do it,
I can't do it, I can't do it,
that's not me.
I'm a loser, I'm a coward,
I'm a chicken, don't you see?
When it comes to wooing women
there's a few things that I lack;
Beautiful girls
wearing nothing but pearls, chasing me,
embracing me - I'd have an attack!

[Max speaks:] You miserable, cowardly,
wretched little caterpillar.
Don't you ever want to become a butterfly?
Don't you want to spread your wings....
...and flap your way to glory?

[Leo:] Mister Bialystock,
please stop the song,
you got me wrong.
I'll say "so long,"
I'm not as strong a person as you think.
Mister Bialystock,
just take a look,
I'm not a crook.
I'm just a shnook,
the bottom line is that I stink!
I can't do it.
You see Rio, I see jail.
[Max:] We can do it.
[Leo:] I can't do it.
[Max:] We can do it.
[Leo:] I cannot, cannot, cannot,
cannot do it 'cause I know
it's gonna fail!
[Max and Leo:] We can do it.
I know weit's cannotgonna fail!

Soft karaoke
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flute
timp
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piano t clef
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We Can Do It XG 2000 Mel Brooks
From "The Producers"
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
copyright 2000 by Mel Brooks Music (BMI)
sequence, arrangement and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne
on Saturday 18 October 2003 at 00.07
in association with Doug Grierson
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