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Tell ’Em The Truth Lyrics by Anthony Norman, Bryan Daniel Porter, Nicole Parker, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Thomas Dekker, J. Elaine Marcos

Reefer Madness (New Los Angeles Cast Recording)

2025

[JIMMY]
I've been through horror, I know despair
I've hit rock bottom and festered that
I sat in an electric chair
But God had other plans
[FDR, spoken]
He works in mysterious ways, Jimmy
[JIMMY]
I feel like something inside has stirred
At long, long last may the truth be heard
[FDR, spoken]
Go forth, Jimmy, and spread the word
[JIMMY]
From sea to shining sea
[MAE & FDR]
You have been set free to tell
The truth about the wisdom we have learned
[JIMMY, MAE, & FDR]
Gonna tell 'em the truth, truth, truth
Ev'rybody gotta know, oh, oh
All about the demon weed
How it grows from a demon seed
[FDR, spoken]
Indeed
[JIMMY]
That pungent smoke will rot your brain
Till you're incurably insane
[JIMMY, MAE, & FDR]
Trust us to tell them the
Gonna tell 'em the truth, truth, truth
Ev'rybody gotta know, oh, oh
With voices raised in song
We're banishing the bong
[FDR, spoken]
So long
[JIMMY, MAE, & FDR]
Our children teeter on the brink
We need to teach them what to think
[JIMMY]
Trust me to tell them the truth
[FDR, spoken]
That's the spirit, Jimmy
And so, with his boyish indiscretions safely behind him
Jimmy was now free to embrace his manifest destiny
As a beacon of moral authority
[JIMMY, spoken]
Mary, you're alive
[MARY, spoken]
I sure am
[JIMMY, spoken]
But how?
[MARY, spoken]
Asking too many questions only leads to trouble
(sung)
Come to me, Romeo
[JIMMY]
I'm here for you, Juliet
[MARY, spoken]
Hooray
[JIMMY]
We've all learned a critical lesson tonight
[JIMMY & MARY]
It's never too late for redemption
[MAE, spoken]
Woah, time for that later
We've gotta save America
[MARY, spoken]
But how?
[JIMMY]
We'll use the papers of Mr. Hearst
[MAE]
Flood the airwaves until they burst
[JIMMY & MAE]
With catchy slogans we've all rehearsed
And iconography
[UNCLE SAM]
It's Uncle Sam
[GEORGE WASHINGTON]
George Washington
[STATUE OF LIBERTY]
And Lady Liberty
[JIMMY, MAE, & FDR]
Gonna tell 'em the truth, truth, truth
Ev'rybody gotta know, oh, oh
[JIMMY]
Just who to demonize
[MAE]
What politics to despise
[JIMMY]
Get wise
[MAE]
We're taking down the fingerprints of
Jazz musicians and immigrants
[ALL]
Trust us to tell you
Gonna tell 'em the truth, truth, truth
Ev'rybody gotta know, oh, oh
[STATUE OF LIBERTY]
The A-B-C's of spin
[UNCLE SAM]
And turning your neighbors in
[STATUE OF LIBERTY]
Or kin
[ALL]
It's all comes down to apple pie
[GEORGE WASHINGTON]
George Washington would never lie
[ALL]
Trust us to tell you
Gonna tell 'em the truth, truth, truth
Ev'rybody gotta know, oh, oh
Let ev'ry sir an ma'am
Obey their Uncle Sam
[FDR]
Hot damn
[ALL]
That famous finger's set to point
[UNCLE SAM]
I want you to drop that joint
[ALL]
Trust us to tell you
Gonna tell 'em the truth, truth, truth
Ev'rybody gotta know, oh, oh
[STATUE OF LIBERTY]
Give me your tired
Give me your poor
Give me your huddled masses
Yearning to breathe free of reefer smoke
Freedom, freedom
[ALL]
It's time that all of us take a stand
For the preservation of our sweet land
Till the things that scare us are burned or banned
Or smashed to smithereens
And once the reefer has been destroyed
We'll start on Darwin and Sigmund Freud
And sex depicted on celluloid
And communists and queens
When danger's near, exploit their fear
The end will justify the means
Means
Reefer Madness
Credits
Anthony Norman

Anthony Norman

Bryan Daniel Porter

Bryan Daniel Porter

Nicole Parker

Nicole Parker

Darcy Rose Byrnes

Darcy Rose Byrnes

Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

J. Elaine Marcos

J. Elaine Marcos

About “Tell ’Em The Truth” by Anthony Norman

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"Tell ’Em The Truth" appears on "Reefer Madness (New Los Angeles Cast Recording)" in 2025.

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