JOSEPH:
A service was held
The next Sunday at nine
On a mild yet overcast day
GEORGETTE:
Three neighbours were there
GINA & GEORGETTE:
Plus a cousin from ten miles away
BLIND BEGGAR, GINA, JOSEPH, HIPOLITO, GEORGETTE:
And with her father taking the urn in his hand
BLIND BEGGAR & GEORGETTE:
And a glade of wine all to herself
ENSEMBLE:
Oh oh o-o-o-oh
AMÉLIE:
Mama was interred on the shelf
(Raphael is placing the urn with the ashes next to a Garden Gnome outside in the garden.)
AMÉLIE as YOUNG AMÉLIE:
Salut Papa, what’s that?
RAPHAEL:
A mausoleum for your Maman’s ashes
AMÉLIE as YOUNG AMÉLIE:
A gnome?
RAPHAEL:
Maman hated it, so I will always think of her when I see it
ENSEMBLE:
Oh oh oh oooh
Eleven years later and all that she knew
Was that times for dreamers were hard
With Papa growing distant t
And a garden gnome keeping guard
And so she packed up her baggage
And all of her bags
And some cash she had saved in a drawer
And oh oh oh oh oh oh
RAPHAEL:
She carried it straight out the door
ENSEMBLE:
Oh oh oh oh o-oh
AMÉLIE:
Au revoir, Papa!
ENSEMBLE:
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh o-oho-oh
Everyone is falling as the fly comes into view
And everyone's connected
Though they may not know it's true
They form a trail of breadcrumbs
But what are they leading to?