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It’s A Godsend Lyrics by Doctor Zhivago - Original Broadway Cast

Doctor Zhivago - Original Broadway Cast Recording

2015

[STUDENTS]
Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
[ILYA, spoken]
Pashenka, you're about to spend long winter nights in the trenches wondering why you ever left your friends behind, so here's a book to remember us by...
[LARA, spoken]
"Great Palaces of Russia."
[PASHA, spoken]
"Great Palaces?" For a revolutionist? Is this a joke, Ilya? What am I supposed to do with this on the front lines?
[ILYA, spoken]
No, it's serious, it's, it's-
[PASHA, spoken]
Of course, Ilya. I see now...
(sung)
It's a brilliant gift
Your resilient gift
For the Russian-German line
For I cannot think of any better
Bullet shield
As I dodge an exploding mine...
Than a fat book of palace protocol
The Tsar in his marble billiard hall
May it guard my heart
As my comrades fall
From shrapnel overhead
And if I'm hit
Who gives a shit?
Let the Tsar take one instead!
No ordinary gift we receive here!
It's a godsend!
[STUDENTS]
It's a godsend!
[PASHA]
To remind us of the decadence
I leave here
It's a godsend!
[STUDENTS]
To a Marxist end!
[PASHA]
In that hellhole in the woods
Where I go to the latrine
When my army issue
Has no toilet tissue
Ev'ry crap I take
For the crap we took
It's a godsend - this book!
[MISCHA, spoken]
I found this in the marketplace
[PASHA, spoken]
A woman's nightgown?
[MISCHA, spoken]
No, the clerk assured me it's a night-shirt, for a soldier!
[PASHA, spoken]
Did you read inside, Mischa? "Madeleine Vionnet, Paris, femmes, petite."
This must be for the French army!
(sung)
Such a festive gift
This "suggestive" gits
All my trenchmates will rejoice
When we're doubled up in sleeping bags
For warmth that night
I'll be everyone's first choice
[STUDENTS]
No ordinary gift you impart here!
[PASHA]
It'sa godsend!
[STUDENTS]
It's a godsend!
[Pasha]
Spread "Das Kapital"
In every Russian heart here
For we start here, my subversive friends!
[ALL]
Da!
(A drunken comrade challenges Pasha to dance the classic Cossack Barynya. Pasha triumphs with a flourish.)
[LARA, spoken]
I have an announcement. This morning I became Larissa Antipova!
[STUDENTS, spoken]
How could you not tell us?
[PASHA, spoken]
What German would dare take my life, when Lara's waiting for me in Moscow?
(sung)
If indeed there is a God
Which I'm not too certain of
You're the proof empirical
A modern miracle
[PASHA AND STUDENTS]
The stars smile down
From heaven above...
[STUDENT]
For the godsend is love!
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Doctor Zhivago - Original Broadway Cast

Doctor Zhivago - Original Broadway Cast

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