PIED PIPER:
I'M AN HONEST AND KIND AND HARD WORKING MAN.
I TRAVEL AROUND MAKING MUSIC.
I LOVE TO BRING PEOPLE JOY IF I CAN AND MOST OF THE TIME I DO.
NOW, I HAVE THIS GIFT. IT'S REALLY QUITE FUNNY.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM.
BUT IT'S BECOME A NEW SOURCE OF MONEY, SO COME GATHER ROUND WHILE I TRY TO EXPLAIN;

RATS START TO FOLLOW ME AND THEN THEY DANCE, WHENEVER I PLAY.
OLD M: ONLY RATS?

PP: WELL, ONE TIME A HIPPO FELL INTO A TRANCE AND DANCED RIGHT AWAY.
IT HAPPENS WHENEVER I PLAY.
SO I GO TOWN TO TOWN HELPING OUT PEOPLE WITH PROBLEMS OR INFESTATION. BUT I HAVE ONE RULE -YOU MUST STAY INSIDE, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THE CHANCE. YOU SEE ONE TIME THIS MAN SECRETLY WATCHED MY MUSICAL INCANTATION. I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS FOLLOWING ME. NOW HE RESIDES ON AN ANTHILL IN FRANCE.

ANTS START TO FOLLOW ME AND THEN THEY DANCE, WHENEVER I PLAY.
AND EVEN PEOPLE FALL INTO A TRANCE, DANCE THEIR WORRIES AWAY, WHENEVER I PLAY

BUTCHER; Come on. I'll buy the animals, but people?
(piper begins to play and all fall into a trance and dance)

ALL: OH HOW HE PLAYS, (more piper melody) OH HOW HE PLAYS
(laughing)

Yvette: Were we dancing? How did this happen?

PP: You were! CAUSE I STARTED TO PLAY.

CM: That's Incredible.

Yvette: I haven't danced in so long.

BAKER: I'm tuckered.

PP: SORRY, I GOT CARRIED AWAY.

OLD M: Wait a minute! You're the piper the famous pied piper!

All: Do it again! Do it again! Play!
RATS START TO FOLLOW HIM AND THEN THEY DANCE, WHENEVER HE PLAYS.
AND EVEN PEOPLE FALL INTO A TRANCE, DANCE THEIR WORRIES AWAY, WHENEVER HE PLAYS. (pied piper plays) OH HOW HE PLAYS (more piper music)
OH HOW HE PLAYS!

Evelyn: Well somebody has to tell the Town Counsilor.

Cassie: He already knows.

Town C:
WHAT IS THAT TUNE PLAYING IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY. (piper melody)
COME EVERYONE LET"S ALL HAVE FUN MAKE LOTS OF NOISE.
OH HOW THAT TUNE FILLS ME AND MAKES ME FEEL HONESTLY GLAD I'M ALIVE.
All:
RATS START TO FOLLOW HIM AND THEN THEY DANCE, WHENEVER HE PLAYS.
AND EVEN PEOPLE FALL INTO A TRANCE, DANCE THEIR WORRIES AWAY, WHENEVER HE PLAYS.

PP: I'M AN HONEST AND KIND AND HARD WORKING MAN.
PP: I LOVE TO BRING PEOPLE JOY WHEN I CAN. AND MOST OF THE TIME....

ALL: MOST OF THE TIME......

PP: MOST OF THE TIME I DO!

ALL:
LA LA LA
LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA 4x

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SONG: ON THE LAMB
The parents of Hamelin have set out to search for their kids, who have followed the piper out of town. Each of the kids is from a nursery rhyme. See if you can figure out which ones they are!

All:
jack, jack, julia, georgy, mary and jill. they're not very hard to miss.
Jack, jack, julia, georgy, mary and jill. how could we lose them like this?

EVELYN: Ya musta seen my kid. He's always jumping round.
Ms. M: mine has on a pretty dress and she's digging in the ground.

ALL: our kids are on the lamb, with a lamb, with a lamb,
and we've been on our feet for two whole days.
we'd give anything we own just to have them home.
please help us if you can. our kids are on the lamb.

[They happen upon an old woman.]

Woman: Yes. Yes. There were many children yes. Many, many thousands of children and this man was playing a pipe. He looked very scary. I don't know if you'll ever see them again.

Butcher: Well that's sure to put us all at ease. Thanks for your words of hope.

Woman 2: Are these your kids? The ones you're looking for?

Evelyn: No.

Kids: Mom?!

Woman 2: Oh they're my kids. My mistake.

ALL: our kids are on the lamb, with a lamb, with a lamb,
and we've been on our feet for four whole days.
we'd give anything we own just to have them home.
please help us if you can. our kids are on the lamb.

Man: Oh, I seem em all I did. They was being chased by monsters they were.

Man 2: Big Monsters.

Man: Big Monsters.

TC: Can you tell us anything else?

Men: That'll cost ya extra.

TC: Anything..(gives them a coin each)

Man: It's not coming to me yet.

Man 2: Nope.

(TC gives them another set of coins)

Man: I'm still not quite getting it.

Man 2: Nope.
(TC gives them a bunch of money)

Men: Got it. They went that way. I mean that way. That way.

Butcher: That's all?

Men: Do you want us to dance or something?

Baker: No!

All:
jack, jack, julia, georgy, mary and jill,
they're not very nondescript.
jack, jack, julia georgy, mary and Jill. out of our town they skipped

TC: That Piper is going to pay for this. I will see that he gets his due!

Butcher: I don't understand. Why would he take our children? You did pay him didn't you? You didn't pay him. Oy. You ..walk over there.

TC: But I'm the town counselor!

Butcher: Not out here your'e not. You're on your own Jack.

Evelyn: Don't call him that. He doesn't deserve that name.

Butcher's wife: Wait! That's why our kids ran away. Cause he didn't pay. That's why they took the gold out of the coffer.

all: he didn't pay the piper.
tc: it's technically not a crime. but somehow i think that phrase is gonna to haunt me for a long long time.

jack, jack, julia, georgy, mary and jill. are paying for what we bought.
jack, jack, julia, georgy, mary and jill. that is what they were taught.

they wanna pay the piper
cause that's the thing that's right
so we'll make sure the piper get's paid. so let's not be staid. we can't be delayed.

ALL: our kids are on the lamb, with a lamb, with a lamb,
and we've been on our feet for five whole days.
we'd give anything we own just to have them home.
please help us if you can. our kids are on the lamb. our kids are on the, our kids are on the lamb.

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