Once On This Island Jr: We Dance

Once On This Island Jr: We Dance

[@gabbydunn9798]

I love this original sound track version!

[@fennecishere]

Oof we did this for a variety show yesterday and it was really fun, my teacher had us do the floss for "we dance to the earth, we dance to water"

[@camiptri]

in Annie as an orphan and we were made to do the whip and nae nae during its a hard knock life reprise

[@MidnightViolex]

The one dislike was Papa Ge

[@madelinem3142]

LMAO 🤣

[@madisonmorales8457]

perfect

[@scorpion3207]

1:25 2:38

[@justasquirrelwithaguitar7980]

I’m doing this play in march

[@arthurpfeil6426]

me to

[@shsazid4569]

2:16

[@lalimol.9560]

(I hope these are the right lyrics???)
[STORYTELLER (MAMA), spoken]
There is an island where rivers run deep.
[STORYTELLER (TONTON), spoken]
Where the sea, sparkling in the sun, earns it the name “Jewel of the Antilles.”
[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2), spoken]
An island where the poorest of peasants labor-
[STORYTELLER (DANIEL), spoken]
And the wealthiest of grands hommes play.
[STORYTELLER (ARMAND), spoken]
Two different worlds on one island!
[STORYTELLER (ANDREA), spoken]
The grands hommes, with their pale brown skins and their French ways, owners of the land and masters of their own fates.
[STORYTELLER (MAN 1), spoken]
And the peasants, black as night, eternally at the mercy of the wind and the sea...
[STORYTELLER (MAN 2), spoken]
Who pray constantly... to the gods.
[ASAKA]
Asaka, mother of the earth!
[AGWE]
Agwe, god of the water!
[ERZULIE]
Erzulie, beautiful goddess of love!
[PAPA GE]
Papa Ge, sly demon of death!
[WOMAN]
Asaka, grow me a garden
[MAN]
Please Agwe, don't flood my garden
[TWO YOUNG WOMEN]
Erzulie, who will my love be?
[ALL]
Papa Ge don't come around me.
[WOMAN (spoken)]
Ah, such powerful, such temperamental gods
rule our island.
[WOMEN]
Asaka, grow me a garden
[MEN]
Please Agwe, don't flood my garden
[WOMEN]
Erzulie, who will my love be?
[ALL]
Papa Ge don't come around me
Please Agwe don't flood my garden
Asaka grow me a garden...
[WOMEN]
We dance
[MEN]
We dance
[ALL]
To the music of the gods
The music of the breezes through
The green plaintain
The murmur of the river and
The roar of rain
And if the Gods decide to
Send a hurricane
[WOMEN]
We dance...
[MEN]
We dance
[ALL]
To their everchanging moods
[WOMAN (ASAKA)]
We know the gods are happy
When the green things grow
[MAN (AGWE)]
They're angry when the river
Starts to overflow
[ALL]
And since we never know
Which way the winds will blow...
[ALL]
We dance to the earth
We dance to the water
The Gods awake and we take no chance
Our hearts hear the song
Our feet move along
And to the music of the Gods
We dance!
[ANDREA (spoken)]
On the other side of the island, safe behind
high walls and iron gates, the grands hommes
dance to a different tune.
[ALL]
La la la la la la la
[DANIEL]
The drink champagne. Entertain tourists at
their fine hotels. And tell their servants,
"Polish up the Mercedes!"
[ALL]
La la la la la la la
[MAN]
Two different worlds
Never meant to meet.
[MAN]
The peasants labor
[WOMAN]
The grands hommes... eat!
[ANDREA AND DANIEL]
How fine
Our clothes are!
[ALL OTHERS]
We dance
[ANDREA AND DANIEL]
How fast
We drive!
[ALL OTHERS]
We dance
[ANDREA AND DANIEL]
We dance at parties...
[ALL]
While we are dancing
Just to stay alive...
[WOMEN]
We dance
[MEN]
We dance
[ALL]
What else is there to do?
[MAN]
But plant the seed
And pull the weed
And chop the cane
[TWO WOMEN]
And bear the child
And bear the load
And bear the pain
[THREE WOMEN, TWO MEN]
ANd as the rich go racing
To their own refrain
[ALL]
We dance to the earth
We dance to the water
The Gods awake and we take no chance
Our hearts hear the song
Our feet move along
And to the music of the Gods
We dance to the earth
We dance to the water
The Gods awake and we take
No chance...
[PAPA GE]
Two different
worlds.
Never meant
to meet.
But if the gods move
our feet...
[ALL]
We dance! We dance! We dance!
[MAN (spoken)]
Once on this island, there was a terrible
storm!
[MAN]
Many huts washed away! Many peasants
drowned by Agwe's angry waters!
[WOMAN]
But one small girl
caught his attention.
[LITTLE TI MOUNE]
Aaaahh!
[MAN (Agwe)]
And she was spared. An orphan, plucked
from the flood by Agwe.
[WOMAN (Asaka)]
Sheltered in a tree by Asaka.
[WOMAN (Erzulie)]
And sent on a journey by the gods. A journey
that would test the strength of love...
[MAN (Papa Ge)]
Against the power of death...
[MAN, WOMAN (Erzulie, Papa Ge)]
On this island of two different worlds!
[ALL]
The story of Ti Moune!

[@wistfuloptimist1238]

Thanks for writing this, it must have taken a long time.

[@francezcaraeairoso4300]

how do you get make these instrumentals? I need it for a play

[@vernicegirl8987]

Francezca Rae Airoso it took a lot of work. I remember my teacher from middle school gave me a CD for it and it took me forever to figure out how to upload tracks from there to online. And that was like 7 years ago so I don’t remember😂😂 I’m sorry for the late ass response to lmao.

[@kenziemrose]

vernicegirl8987 omigosh we are doing this play in middle school too lol

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1:49 ignore this time mark

[@dumbidiot7183]

professor hidgens hey! i needed the same time stamp :))