The Trial of the Big

Bad Wolf
Book: Emily Kallenberg
Music: Brennan Paulin
(We open on a court hearing about to take place. Up Center is the
Judges bench; there are two platforms on either side, one for the
secretary and one for the witness stand. The jurors are placed SR
of the secretary and the witness SL. The bailiff has a stool just SL
of the witness stand. Lights low on courtroom as everyone is
frozen. A spot hits the secretary as the story begins)

Secretary: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the trial of the Big

Bad Wolf. All rise. The Honorable Mother Goose will be
presiding.

(lights come up as the intro to “Its Bad to be Bad” begins to play)

Song: IT’S BAD TO BE BAD

ALL.
ONCE UPON A TIME, WE LIVED IN HAPPINESS.
BUT NOW BECAUSE OF A BAD GUY,
IT’S ALL BECOME A MESS.
IT’S BAD TO BE BAD!
WHAT HE DID WAS WRONG
AND NOW OUR SONG IS SAD AND BLUE.
IT’S BAD TO BE BAD.
YOU DID THE CRIME AND NOW IT’S TIME
FOR YOU TO TELL THE TRUTH!
IT’S BAD TO BE BAD!

Judge: You may be seated. Bailiff, what are the charges?

Bailiff: The most wanted criminal in all of Once Upon a Time has
been arrested for crimes against humanity, James P. Wolf.

Courtroom: Gasp!

Judge: You may proceed.

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Lawyer #1: Today I ask you the courtroom to charge Mr. Wolf
with his crimes against our beloved friends. Here are their stories
and I ask that you, my friends, decide. If it pleases the court, I ask
that Mr. Chicken Little join us at the stand.

(Chicken Little walks to the stand the jurors whisper and write on
their pads of paper.)

Lawyer #1: Please, Mr. Little, tell us what you know of Mr. Wolf

Chicken Little: I have three good friends, maybe you know them,
they are called the three little pigs. They met up with Mr. Bad
Wolf in the worst way.

SONG: THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

PIG 1.
MOMMA PIG IS GENTLE.
PIG 2.
MOMMA PIG IS KIND
PIG 3.
MOMMA PIG LOVES ALL HER PIGGIES
UNTIL WE CAME TO FIND
PIG 1.
THAT WE WERE GROWING UP
PIG 2.
BECOMING BIG AND STOUT
PIG 3.
AND THAT’S THE DAY THAT MOMMA PIG
ALL PIGS.
KICKED US OUT!
ALL.
THIS IS THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
MOMMA PIG SAYS THERE’S NO MORE ROOM
AT HOME FOR THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.

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CHICKEN LITTLE.
SO THEY DECIDED TO BUILD
A HOUSE OF THEIR OWN
A PLACE WHERE ANYONE
COULD FEEL AT HOME.
PIG 1.
ONE MADE OF STRAW
PIG 2.
ONE MADE OF STICKS
PIG 3.
ONE MADE OF STRONG & HEAVY RED BRICKS
ALL.
THIS IS THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
BUT LATER ON, DANGER WILL COME
UPON THE THREE LITTLE PIGS!
CHICKEN LITTLE.
I WAS JUST IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
TAKING A NAP
WHEN I AWOKE TO THE SOUND
OF THE PIGGY ATTACK.
ALL.
BY THE BIG BAD WOLF!
AND THE WOLF, HE SAID
WOLF (SPOKEN).
LITTLE PIG, LITTLE PIG, LET ME IN!
PIG 1 (SUNG).
NOT BY THE HAIR ON MY CHINNY-CHIN-CHIN!
WOLF (SPOKEN.
THEN I’LLL HUG AND I’LL PUFF
AND I’LL BLOOOOOOOOOOOW YOUR HOUSE
DOWN!
[BREAK]
LITTLE PIGS, LITTLE PIGS, LET ME IN!
PIG 1 & 2 (SUNG).
NOT BY THE HAIR ON OUR CHINNY-CHIN-CHINS!

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WOLF.
THEN I’LL HUFF AND I’LL PUFF
AND I’LL BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW YOUR
HOUSE DOWN!
[BREAK]
LITTLE PIGS, LITTLE PIGS LET ME IN!
ALL PIGS.
NOT BY THE HAIR ON OUR CHINNY-CHIN-CHINS!
WOLF.
THEN I’LL HUFF!
AND I’LL PUFF!
AND I’LL BLOW!!!!!
PIG 1 (SPOKEN).
IS HE OK!
PIG 2 (SPOKEN).
I DON’T KNOW
PIG 3 (SPOKEN).
ARE YOU ALRIGHT?
WOLF.
RRAAAWWRR!!

Lawyer #2: OBJECTION! That is Hearsay your honor.

Judge: But it’s true, so I will allow it.

Lawyer #2: But, but, but…sigh*

Judge: Call your next witness

Lawyer #1: I call Goldilocks to the stand!

Bailiff: growls*

Judge: Control yourself Bailiff!

Bailiff: (Sheepishly) Yes, ma’am.

(Goldilocks takes Chicken Littles place.)

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Lawyer #1: Goldie, May I call you Goldie? (Goldie nods yes) tell
us the story of your dear little cousin Red.

Goldilocks: Well, I was on my way back from the bears (Bailiff

grunts) lovely home when I ran into Little Red Riding Hood.

SONG: SKIP ALONG THE FOREST

GOLDILOCKS.
SKIP, SKIP, SKIP ALONG THE FOREST
SKIP ALONG THE FOREST TO DISCOVER
SOMETHING NEW!
I SAW MY LITTLE COUSIN RED
AND THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID . . .
LITTLE RED.
SKIP, SKIP, SKIP ALONG THE FOREST
SKIP ALONG THE FOREST
WITH A BASKET FULL OF SWEETS!
GRANDMA’S VERY SICK INDEED
AND THIS IS WHAT SHE NEEDS . . .
BOTH.
SWEET TREATS COOKIES AND SURPRISES
CHOCOLATE CAKES AND PIES IS WHAT WILL
HELP GRANDMA GET WELL SOON
GOLDILOCKS.
GRANDMA LIVES SO FAR AWAY
AND RED HAD A LONG WAY TO GO
THE FOREST IS A SCARY PLACE
AND WHAT SHE DIDN’T KNOW WAS
THE BIG BAD WOLF!
ALL.
THE BIG BAD WOLF
GOLDILOCKS.
THE BIG BAD WOLF WAS AFTER HER!
HE WANTED TO EAT HER!
ALL.
GASP!

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LITTLE RED.
AND THAT’S THE HONEST TRUTH!
WHEN I SKIPPED, SKIPPED,
SKIPPED ALONG THE FOREST
SOMETHING WAS BEHIND ME
I COULD SEE THE BIG BAD WOLF!
HE ASKED ME WHAT WAS IN MY BASKET
BUT I SIMPLY PASSED HIM!
AND WHEN I GOT TO GRANDMA’S BED,
I COULDN’T BELIEVE MY EYES!
SHE HAD BIG BAD HANDS
AND BIG BAD FEET
AND BIG BAD NOSE AND EYES AND TEETH!
TO MY SURPRISE IT WAS THE BIG BAD WOLF!
AND HE GOBBLED ME DOWN!!!!

Lawyer # 2: OBJECTION! This isn’t fair your Honor, Mr. Bad

Wolf has an explanation for all of this!

Judge: Overruled! Mr. Wolf will have his chance to speak!

Lawyer # 1: I call Pinocchio to the stand! Pinocchio tell us what

you know about Mr. Wolf.

Pinocchio: Well I was walking down the street when this small
cookie ran by…

SONG: GINGERBREAD MAN (RUN, RUN, RUN)

PINOCCHIO (SPOKEN).
IT MAY SOUND SILLY
BUT I SWEAR I DO NOT TELL A LIE!
WHILE WALKING IN THE WOODS
I SAW A COOKIE RUNNING BY!
A MAN MADE OUT OF GINGERBREAD
ESCAPING FROM THIS DREAD

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 HE HOLLERED WHILE RACING BY
AND THIS IS WHAT THE GINGERBREAD,
GINGERBREAD, GINGERBREAD SAID.
ALL.
RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME,
I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!
GINGERBREAD MAN.
RUN! RUN ALL YOU CAN
RUN! RUN ALL YOU CAN
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME,
I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!
I GOT GINGER HAIR AND GINGER CLOTHES
GINGER ARMS AND LEGS AND NOSE
GINGER CANDY ALL OVER MY FACE
CAN’T CATCH ME I’M ALL OVER THE PLACE!
ALL.
RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME,
I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!
RUN! RUN ALL YOU CAN
RUN! RUN ALL YOU CAN
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME
I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!
RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME,
I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!
GINGERBREAD MAN.
RUN! RUN ALL YOU CAN
RUN! RUN ALL YOU CAN
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME,
I’M THE GINGERBREAD . . .
I’M THE GINGERBREAD . . .
I AM THE GINGERBREAD!!!!
ALL.
MAN!

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Lawyer #2: Pinocchio, wouldn’t you have wanted to eat a
delicious Gingerbread cookie?

Pinocchio: NO!! (we hear a sound like a nose growing, Pinocchio

immediately covers his nose)

Lawyer #2: That’s what I thought.

Pinocchio: Your honor, may I be excused?

Judge: Yes Pinocchio!

(Pinocchio runs off stage)

Lawyer # 2: Its time for me to call my witness to the stand and I

call Mr. Big Bad Wolf!

Everyone: Gasp!

Lawyer #2: well Mr. Wolf, what do you have to say for yourself!

Wolf: Well all I can say is…

SONG: WOLF’S APOLOGY

WOLF.
I CAN UNDERSTAND
HOW YOU’D BE UPSET WITH ME
I HAD NO IDEA THAT IT TOOK SO LONG
TO BUILD A HOME ON YOUR OWN
AND I’M SORRY I HUFFED AND I PUFFED
AND BLEW YOUR HOUSE DOWN
AND DESTROYED ALL YOUR STUFF
I WAS HUNGRY AND BEHAVED LIKE A CYCLONE
AND NOW MY HAPPY ENDING HAS NO HOME.
I CAN UNDERSTAND
HOW YOU’D BE UPSET WITH ME

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 I HAD NO IDEA THAT YOUR GRANDMA WAS ILL
AND IN NEED OF YOUR SWEETS!
AND I’M SORRY
I LOCKED YOUR GRANDMA IN THE CLOSET
AND THEN ATE HER WHEN SHE ESCAPED
I WAS HUNGRY
AND I STILL WANTED YOUR TREATS
AND NOW MY HAPPY ENDING IS BITTERSWEET!
AND I’M SORRY I ALSO ATE THE GINGERBREAD
HE RAN TO ME AND I WAS STILL HUNGRY
HOW COULD I RESIST
THAT DELICIOUS LITTLE GUY?
I ATE HIM UP.
SO NOW I STAND HERE TODAY
BECAUSE MY HAPPY ENDING HAS RUN AWAY!

(at the end of the song everyone is weeping at his tale)

Lawyer #1: OBJECTION!

Judge: On what grounds!

Lawyer #1: That was too beautiful! (crying)

Judge: Jury have you reached a verdict?

Juror #1: Yes, we have your honor!

Judge: Well?

Juror #2: We find the defendant…

Jury: Guilty!

(Mr. Wolf lays his head on the table and beats it with his fist.)

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Judge: I hereby say that your punishment for your crimes is to be
kind and gentle and friendly to everyone and furthermore, to
make up for your nasty deeds you must do what the King could
not, and put Humpty Dumpty together again!

Everyone: Hooray!

SONG: IT’S GOOD TO BE GOOD!

ALL.
ONCE UPON A TIME, THE WOLF WAS TO BLAME
BUT NOW BECAUSE HE’S CHANGED FOR GOOD,
HE HAS A NEW NAME!
IT’S GOOD TO BE GOOD!
HE APOLOGIZED AND REALIZED
HE’LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!
IT’S GOOD TO BE GOOD!
WE’VE FORGIVEN YOU AND NOW
YOU CAN HAVE YOUR HAPPY ENDING AGAIN.
IT’S GOOD TO BE GOOD!

THE END

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The Trial of the Big
Bad Wolf
Book: Emily Kallenberg
Music: Brennan Paulin

Vocal Score
 It's Bad To Be Bad
Vocal Only Brennan Paulin

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Once U - pon A Time - We lived in happ - i - ness -

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- But now be - cause of the bad guys It's all be - come a mess It's

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Bad to be Bad! - - - What he did was wrong and

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now our song is sad and blue - It's Bad to be Bad -

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- - - You did the crime and now it's time for you to

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tell the truth! It's Bad to be Bad - !

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 The Three Little Pigs
Brennan Paulin

PIG 1 (spoken)

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PIG 2 (spoken)
Voice

Mo - mma Pig is gen - tle Mo - mma Pig is kind

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5 PIG 3 (spoken) 3 PIG 1 PIG 2

Mo - mma Pig loves all her pig-gies un - til we came to find that we were grow - ing up be -

ALL 3

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8 PIG 3

com - ing big and stout and that's the day that Mo - mma Pig KICKED US OUT!

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This is the sto - ry of the three li - ttle pigs The three li - ttle pigs The

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three li - ttle pigs Mo - mma Pig says there's no more room at

CHICKEN LITTLE
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home for the three li - ttle pigs. So they de - cid - ed to build a

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house of their own A place where an - y - one could
 The Three Little Pigs

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PIG 1 PIG 2 PIG 3

feel at home. One made of straw One made of sticks And

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one made of strong and hea - vy red bricks.

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ALL

This is the sto - ry of the

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three li - ttle pigs The three li - ttle pigs The three li - ttle pigs But

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la - ter on, dan - ger will come u - pon the three li - ttle pigs!

CHICKEN LITTLE

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I was just in the neigh - bor - hood tak - ing a nap when I a -

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woke to the sound of the pig - gy a - ttacked By the

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BIG BAD WOLF! And the wolf, he said,

 Little Pigs part 2
Brennan Paulin

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WOLF (spoken)

Li - ttle pig li - ttle pig let me in!

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4 PIG 1 (sung) WOLF
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Not by the hair on my chinn - y - chin - chin! Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll BLOOOOOWW
your house down!

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Li - ttle pigs li - ttle pigs let me in! Not by the hair on our
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WOLF
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chinn - y - chin - chins! Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll BLOOOOOOOOWWW
your house down!
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22 WOLF ALL 3 PIGS (sung)

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Li - ttle pigs li - ttle pigs let me in! Not by the hair on our

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rit.

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WOLF
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chinn -y - chin - chins! Then I'll huff! And I'll

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rit.

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31 huff! And I'll BLOW!!!

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PIG 1- Is he ok?
WOLF- RRAAAWWRR!!
PIG 3- Are you alright?
 Skip Along the Forest Brennan Paulin

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GOLDILOCKS
Voice

Skip skip

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skip a - long the for - est skip a - long the for - est to dis - co - ver Some - thing

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new! I saw my litt - le cou - sin Red and this is what she

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LITTLE RED
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said... Skip skip skip a - long the for - est skip a - long the for - est

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with a bas - ket full of sweets! Grand - ma's ve - ry sick in - deed and

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this is what she needs... Sweets treats coo - kies and sur - pris - se

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choc - olate cakes and pies is what will help Grand - ma get well soon!

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GOLDILOCKS
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Grand - ma lives so far a - way and Red had a long way to go; The
 Skip Along the Forest

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for - est is a scar - y place and what she did n't know was the

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ALL GOLDILOCKS
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Big Bad Wolf! The Big Bad Wolf! The Big Bad Wolf was a - fter her! He

rit. a tempo
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ALL LITTLE RED

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want - ed to eat her! (Gasp!) And that's the hon - est truth! When I skipped skipped

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skipped a - long the for - est some - thing was be - hind me I could see the Big Bad

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Wolf! He asked me what was in my bas - ket But I just sim - ply

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passed him! And when I got to grand - ma's bed I could - n't be - lieve my eyes! She had

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big bad hands and big bad feet and big bad nose and eyes and teeth! To

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my sur - prise it was the Big Bad Wolf! "And he gobbled me DOWN!!!"
 Gingerbread Man Brennan Paulin
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PINOCCHIO (spoken):

Voice

It

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may sound sill - y but I swear I do not tell a lie! While walk - ing in the

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woods I saw a cook - ies run - ning by! A man made out of gin - ger - bread - E -

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scap - ing from this dread He holl - erd while race - ing by - and
 this is what the

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Gin - ger - bread Gin - ger - bread Gin - ger - bread had said, Run! Run!

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 GINGERBREAD MAN
Run! Run! As fast as you can! You can't catch me I'm the

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gin - ger bread man! Run! Run all you can Run! Run all

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you can you can't catch me I'm the gin - ger bread man!

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I got gin - ger hair and gin - ger clothes and gin - ger arms and

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legs and nose gin - ger can - dy all o - ver my face can't catch me I'm all
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o - ver the place! Run! Run! Run! Run! As fast as you can! You

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can't catch me I'm the gin - ger bread man! Run! Run all

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you can Run! Run all you can you can't catch me I'm the

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gin - ger bread man!

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Run! Run! Run! Run! As fast as you

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can! You can't catch me I'm the gin - ger bread man!

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Run! Run all you can Run! Run all you can you can't catch

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me I'm the gin - ger bread... I'm the gin - ger bread...

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I am the Gin - ger - bread...!!!

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Man!
 Wolf's Apology
Brennan Paulin

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  WOLF
Voice  
I can
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un - der - stand how you'd be up - set with me. I had

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no i - dea that it took so long to build a home... on your

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own And I'm sorr - y I huffed and I puffed and blew your

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house down and de - stroyed all your stuff I was hun - gry and be - haved like a

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cy - clone and now my ha - ppy end - ing has no home.

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I can un - der - stand how you'd be up - set with

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me. I had no i - dea that your grand - ma was ill and in
 Wolf's Apology

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need of your sweets! And I'm

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sorr - y I locked your grand - ma in the clo - set and then ate her when she esc -

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aped I was hun - gry but I still want - ed your treats and now my ha - ppy end - ing is

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bi tter sweet! And I'm so - rry I al - so ate the gin - ger - bread He

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ran to me and I was still hun - gry How could I re - sist that de -

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li - cious litt - le guy I ate him up So now I stand here to - day Be -

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cause my ha - ppy end - ing has run a - way!
 It's Good to Be Good!
Brennan Paulin

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Voice  

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Once U - pon A Time - The wolf was to blame - But

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now be - cause he's changed for good he has a new name! It's

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Good to be Good! He a-

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pol - o - gized and re - a - lized he'll ne - ver do it a - gain! It's Good

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to be Good! We've for - giv - en you and now - you can

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have your ha - ppy end - ing a - gain - - - - It's

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rit.

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Good to be Good - !