You Never Know (Urchins) - original

Note to soloists: Your lines are written out as per the score, but you have now
started to make them your own. So don't worry if the rhythms sound a little "off"
in this version. For the parts you are in the quartet, however, you should all be singing
what's here! **Let me know if the electric bass is overpowering; I can soften it to mf.
Menken/Ashman
120

Alyssa

Ex - plo -sion! Sey-mour was in a funk, He

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was num -ber ze - ro. Who'd a thunk he'd be -come a he - ro?

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Just a punk, he was a for -got -ten so - and - so. Then one day
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don't it go to show ya nev -er know! oo

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ah oo ah oo
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doo doo wah oo ah Ob -serve him:

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here's a chap, ev - ry-thing is land -ing in his lap. Doo - wap!

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Zam, ka - zap Don't it go to show ya nev - er know!

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One day you're sling -in' hash, feel - in' so re -jec - ted, light -nin' flash! you
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get res - ur - rec - ted. - Make a splash! Now you rate the big bra -vis - si - mo!
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And with a thun - der - crash Crash, ker - plunk

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Bam, ker - boom Zang, ka - zunk Zam, ka - zoom Zow - ee, pow - ee,
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hol - y cow! He or -dered up a rain -bow to go! Wow, pow! Look out be - low Don't
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it go to show you nev - er know!

 You Never Know (Urchins) - original
Note to soloists: Your lines are written out as per the score, but you have now
started to make them your own. So don't worry if the rhythms sound a little "off"
in this version. For the parts you are in the quartet, however, you should all be singing
what's here! **Let me know if the electric bass is overpowering; I can soften it to mf.
Menken/Ashman
120

Amanda

Ex - plo -sion! Sey-mour was in a funk, He

16

was num -ber ze - ro. Who'd a thunk he'd be -come a he - ro?

19

Just a punk, he was a for -got -ten so -and - so. Then one day
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don't it go to show ya nev - er know!

27

All the world used to screw him. Biff, wham, pow, now they in - ter -view him,
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and they cla - mor to put his re -marks on the air.

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All the world used to hate him. Now they star - tin' t'app - re - ci - ate him,
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and all be -cause of that strange lit - tle plant ov - er there. Ob - serve him:

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SEYMOUR

here's a chap, ev - ry - thing is land - ing in his lap. I

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SEYMOUR

just cut my hand and Doo - wap! some -thing out of Ed - gar Al - len Poe
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has hap -pened! Zam, ka - zap Don't it go to show ya nev - er know!

54

One day you're sling -in' hash, feel - in' so re -jec - ted, light -nin' flash! you
58

get res - ur - rec - ted. - Make a splash! Now you rate the big bra -vis - si - mo!

62

And with a thun -der - crash Crash, ker - plunk

66

Bam, ker - boom Zang, ka - zunk Zam, ka - zoom Zow - ee, pow - ee,
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Amanda, pl

hol - y cow! He or -dered up a rain -bow to go! Wow, pow! Look out be - low Don't
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it go to show you nev - er know!

 You Never Know (Urchins) - original
Note to soloists: Your lines are written out as per the score, but you have now
started to make them your own. So don't worry if the rhythms sound a little "off"
in this version. For the parts you are in the quartet, however, you should all be singing
what's here! **Let me know if the electric bass is overpowering; I can soften it to mf.
Menken/Ashman
120

Wendy

One day he pushed a broom, No - thing in his news but

5

gloom and doom, then he lit a fuse and give him room, stand
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a-side and watch that mu -tha blow! Ex - plo -sion! Bang, ker -boom! Don't
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it go to show ya nev - er know! Sey-mour was in a funk, He

16

was num -ber ze - ro. Who'd a thunk he'd be -come a he - ro?

19

Just a punk, he was a for -got -ten so -and - so. Then one day
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SEYMOUR

crash, ker -plunk don't it go to show ya nev -er know! oo

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ah oo ah oo
36

doo doo wah oo ah Ob -serve him:

43

here's a chap, ev - ry-thing is land -ing in his lap. Doo - wap!

48

Zam, ka - zap Don't it go to show ya nev - er know!

54

One day you're sling -in' hash, feel - in' so re -jec - ted, light -nin' flash! you
58

get res -ur -rec - ted. - Make a splash! Now you rate the big bra -vis - si - mo!
62

And with a thun - der - crash Crash, ker - plunk

66

Bam, ker - boom Zang, ka - zunk Zam, ka - zoom Zow - ee, pow - ee,
70

hol - y cow! He or -dered up a rain -bow to go! Wow, pow! Look out be - low Don't
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it go to show you nev - er know!

 You Never Know (Urchins) - original
Note to soloists: Your lines are written out as per the score, but you have now
started to make them your own. So don't worry if the rhythms sound a little "off"
in this version. For the parts you are in the quartet, however, you should all be singing
what's here! **Let me know if the electric bass is overpowering; I can soften it to mf.
Menken/Ashman
120

Mackenzie

Ex - plo -sion! Sey-mour was

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in a funk, He was num -ber ze - ro. Who'd a thunk he'd

18

be -come a he - ro? Just a punk, he was a for -got -ten so -and - so.
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Then one day don't it go to show ya nev -er know!

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oo ah oo ah
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oo doo doo wah oo ah

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Ob -serve him: here's a chap, ev - ry-thing is land - ing in his lap.

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Doo - wap! Zam, ka - zap Don't it go to show ya nev -er

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know! One day you're sling - in' hash, feel - in' so re - jec - ted,
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light -nin' flash! you get res - ur - rec - ted. - Make a splash! Now
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you rate the big bra -vis - si - mo! And with a thun -der -crash
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Crash, ker -plunk Bam, ker -boom Zang, ka - zunk Zam, ka - zoom
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Zow - ee, pow - ee, hol - y cow! He or -dered up a rain -bow to go! Wow, pow! Look
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out be - low Don't it go to show you nev - er

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know!
 You Never Know (Urchins) - original
Note to soloists: Your lines are written out as per the score, but you have now
started to make them your own. So don't worry if the rhythms sound a little "off"
in this version. For the parts you are in the quartet, however, you should all be singing
what's here! **Let me know if the electric bass is overpowering; I can soften it to mf.
Menken/Ashman
120

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