The Sad Tale Of The Beauxhommes

- David Jennings (2018)

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You are listening to the song The Sad Tale Of The Beauxhommes by David Jennings, in album Once On This Island (New Broadway Cast Recording). The highest quality of audio that you can download is flac . Also, you can play quality at 32kbps, view lyrics and watch more videos related to this song.

Album: Once On This Island (New Broadway Cast Recording).

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Forever Yours - Hailey Kilgore
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And The Gods Heard Her Prayer & Rain - Alex Newell
We Dance - Once On This Island Storytellers
One Small Girl - Davis
Waiting For Life - Hailey Kilgore
Discovering Daniel; Pray - Hailey Kilgore
The Sad Tale Of The Beauxhommes - David Jennings
Ti Moune - Once On This Island Storytellers
Some Say - Mia Williamson
The Human Heart - Lea Salonga
Gossip - Once On This Island Storytellers
Forever Yours (Reprise) - Hailey Kilgore
A Part Of Us - Kenita R. Miller
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[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2), spoken]
A history lesson!

[STORYTELLERS (MEN, EXCEPT DANIEL)]
Some... say... some... say...

[MEN]
Some...
Say...
Some...
Say...

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
Four generations past
In the time of Napoleon
There came to this island
A Frenchman, Armand

[ALL (EXCEPT ARMAND, DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
Armand!
Armand!

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
And he built a great fortune
And he built a grand mansion
And he wed a fine lady
So pale and so blonde

[MADAME ARMAND (WOMAN 1)]
Armand!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)]
But Armand took his pleasure
With the women who served him:
Black peasant girls from
The village beyond

[PEASANT GIRLS (WOMAN 1, ANDREA)]
Armand!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)]
And the loveliest one
Bore the Frenchman a son
Such a fine peasant son —

[ARMAND]
For Armand!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)]
A beautiful child
The pale color
Of coffee mixed with cream

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
The beautiful one
The beautiful son
Beauxhomme

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
They named him:

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
Beauxhomme

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
Beauxhomme

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
The beautiful one
The beautiful son
Beauxhomme

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
And the boy grew to be a man
And the great war began

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
Blacks fought against French
And the hated Napoleon
They fought for their island
And finally won

[MEN (EXCEPT DANIEL)]
We won!

[BEAUXHOMME (MAN 2), STORYTELLER (MAN 1)]
We won!

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
And Armand sailed for France

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2), spoken]
By the seat of his pants...

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
...driven out
By his beautiful son!

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
The beautiful one!
The beautiful son!
Beauxhomme, beauxhomme
The beautiful one!

[BEAXHOMME, DANIEL]
What was his is now mine!

[THE BEAUTIFUL ONE!]
The beautiful son! Beauxhomme!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)]
But Armand left behind a terrible, terrible curse

[ALL (EXCEPT ARMAND, DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
I curse my son

[ARMAND, spoken]
I curse my only son!

[ALL (EXCEPT ARMAND, DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
I curse his sons

[ARMAND, spoken]
All of his sons!

[ALL (EXCEPT ARMAND, DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
Generations—

[ARMAND, spoken]
All Beauxhommes yet unborn!

[ALL (EXCEPT ARMAND, DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
In advance

[ARMAND, spoken]
Your black blood will keep you
Forever on this island...
While your hearts yearn
Forever for France!

[ALL (EXCEPT DANIEL, TI MOUNE)]
The unlucky one
The unlucky son
Beauxhomme. Beauxhomme
From bad blood to worse
The name of the curse:
Beauxhomme
They despise us for our blackness
It reminds them
Where they're from
The sad, sad tale
Of the Beauxhommes!
Beauxhomme!