Everybody Loves A Hero

RIFLE-RANGE BARKER
Who's feeling lucky?
Twenty out of twenty
And a prize could be yours!

FREAK-SHOW BARKER
See "Marie the Monkey"
With the poisonous claws!

RIFLE-RANGE BARKER
There's a prize
To be won!

FREAK-SHOW BARKER
Take a risk,
Take a ride!

RIFLE-RANGE BARKER
Right this way,
Have a go!

FREAK-SHOW BARKER
Try your luck
And step inside!

CHORUS
If you reach
For the moon,
If you aim
For the sky,
Then the moon
And the sky
Can be yours --
Come on and try!

Everybody loves a hero!
Let's hear it for the man with the gun!
Everybody loves a hero...

BARKER
And you, sir,
Are now the proud owner
Of this magnificent donkey!

CHORUS
Everybody loves a hero!
Let's hear it for the man with the gun!
Everybody loves a hero...

FRIEND 1 (to ALEX)
Two more days...

FRIEND 2
Just two more days!

FRIEND 1
...And you'll be back
To civvy street again!

FRIEND 3
And decent food.

FRIEND 2
And your life is yours at last!

FRIEND 3
You lucky devil!

GIRLS
Your girlfriend's gonna love that donkey!

ALL
You'll be her hero!

ALEX (detaching himself from the limpet GIRL)
Two long years...
I had a dream I'd see her name in lights:
Rose Vibert, the shining star!
I've given up trying to find her...
Perhaps she's resting...

FRIEND 3
So who's the lucky girl tonight, then?

ALEX (moving off as the scene dissolves)
I've told you:
It's my uncle.

FRIENDS (fading into the background)
Uncle?
Not likely...
Give her a kiss from us...