SCENE 1 : MEET MATILDA

VIDEO Y CANCION MIRACLE

Library.

MRS. PHELPS: there is something rather strange that happens with

moms and dads. It doesn’t matter how ugly, repulsive or odd their child
can be, they think (and believe) they are wonderful and stupendous. This
are the headaches for teachers, they are so dif cult to educate, -and to
stand-.

Well, today I will tell you a story about a girl, who for a change is indeed
extraordinary. She is a brilliant girl, but the Wormwoods, as you will see in
this story, weren’t aware of her intelligence, and her, I may say…
Genius….

This is Matilda Wormwood.

MATILDA: hello Mrs Phelps? Do you Have any new books?

MRS. PHELPS: Books! I have Lots of books….I met Matilda when she
was 3, she read all the books you can imagine: the easy ones, the ones
with pictures, the boring ones, and the excited ones. Charles Dickens,
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austin, Hemingway, you name it!

Possible Book dance.

MATILDA: can I take this book home?

MRS. PHLEPS: Sure! Be back in two days….

MATILDA: Bye, Mrs. Phleps!

Matilda walks home, change of scenery, we can see the Mom and Dad.

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SCENE 2: MEET THE WORMWOODS
Mrs. Wormwood is talking on the phone….

MRS. WORMWOOD: Oh yes dear!!!! , today I found a way to sell more

of this cheap cosmetics, and to a better price. A secret between yo and
me.
Oh Darling, I’ll tell you all about it but you have to promise me, you’ll
keep a secret!!!!
(Secrecy)) I sell the cosmetics that have been expired, but I don’t tell the
distributors and tell them I threw them away! (Laughs)

MATILDA: but that is wrong!!!

MRS. WORMWOOD: I’ll tell you what is wrong…. For a girl to comment
in my job…

MATILDA: Mom, is it ok with you if I have dinner upstairs so I can read my

book?

MRS. WORMWOOD: a book!? How boring? You better watch TV. But it’s
your life so go ahead. You choose books, and I choose looks!!!!

Matilda walks away and takes out a book…..

MRS. WORMWOOD: Wait, what do you have there!!!!! That is not

yours …..where did you get it from you little liar!!!!!! … I don’t want to see
this again…
(Rips the book apart)

MATILDA: but Mom! Those are from the library!

MR. WORMWOOD: go to your room….

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(Matilda sings, she organizes a prank with the mother’s cosmetics)

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water

So they say, their subsequent fall was inevitable
They never stood a chance, they were written that way
Innocent victims of their story
Like Romeo and Juliet
'Twas written in the stars before they even met
That love and fate and a touch of stupidity
Would rob them of their hope of living happily
The endings are often a little bit gory
I wonder why they didn't just change their story
We're told we have to do what we're told, but surely
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty
Just because you nd that life's not fair, it
Doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change
Even if you're little, you can do a lot, you
Mustn't let a little thing like "little" stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Might as well be saying you think that it's okay
And that's not right
Even if you're little, you can do a lot, you
Mustn't let a little thing like "little" stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Might as well be saying you think that it's okay
And that's not right
And if it's not right
You have to put it right

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 Mrs. Wormwood starts her night routine, and Matilda watches.She’s all
green.
Music. Naughty.

SCENE 3: THE ACROBAT AND THE ESCAPOLOGIST 1

Matilda visits Mrs. Phelps
She takes the books her father ruined, feeling a little embarrassed.

MRS. PHELPS: Hello Matilda! Why that sad face? Everything Ok?

MATILDA: My father ruined the books… I got mad and I got a little bit
naughty.

MRS. PHLEPS: Remember Matilda, two wrongs don’t make a right.

MATILDA: but it’s just that my parents don’t understand! I want to learn,
discover new places!!!!

MRS. PHLEPS: Ever thought about school….

MATILDA: That’s it! I want to go to school!!!!!

MRS. PHELPS: you have so much potential.

MATILDA: you know, when I get mad, I get creative, and I started
imagining a story…

MRS. PHELPS: what kind of story?

MATILDA: the story about an acrobat and an Escapologist… and their evil
aunt….

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 MRS. PHELPS: can’t wait to hear about it.

MATILDA: Once upon a time, the two greatest circus performers in the
world – an escapologist who could escape from any lock that was ever
invented, and an acrobat who was so skilled it seemed as if she could
actually y – fell in love, and got married.
They performed some of the most incredible feats together anyone has
ever seen. And people would come from miles around: kings! queens!
celebrities! and astronauts! And not just to see their skill, but also to see
their love for each other.
They moved into a beautiful old house. And each night, the children
waited for their performance"Tricks! Tricks!" But although they loved each
other, although they were famous and everyone loved them they were
sad.
MRS PHELPS: Why Matilda? Why…. Don’t let me hanging like this…

MATILDA: I don’t know that was all I could imagine… maybe tomorrow I
will have more!
Bye Mrs. Phelps, I have to go to school!!!!

MRS. PHELPS: Bye! Good luck.

SCENE 4: GREEN FACE

The parents are trying to separate the hat stuck in Mr. Wormwood’s head.

MATILDA: What happened?

MRS. WORMWOOD: I used my cosmetics and turned green.

MATILDA: Really??? That is so strange, maybe the were expired.

Well, I want to go to school….

Parents stop.

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MRS. WORMWOOD: to school??
nonsense, you are too young.

MATILDA: no, all children attend school around 5, I’m almost 8.

MRS. WORMWOOD: 8???

MATILDA: yes, can I go tomorrow, please?

MRS WORMWOOD: sure! you go ahead.

SCENE 5: CRUNCHEM HALL

DANCE .
Hortensia enter with the prefects.

HORTENSIA: Hello, you are new here aren’t you?

MATILDA: Hello, I’m Matilda Wormwood. How do you do?

Lavender comes to the group.

LAVENDER: Hello, this is my rst day too. I’m Lavender. And you
are….

HORTENSIA: we, are the prefects. We pretty much know everything

that goes on in this school. Don’t you dare think this is a happy place. A
little mistake, and…

PREFECTS: Chokey!!!!!

MATILDA: what is chokey?

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PREFECT 1: It’s the worst kind of detention.

PREFECT 2: She locks you in a room, in which you do not have a way
out!

LAVENDER: Let’s not listen to them Matilda…. Let’s nd our way to

class.

A bell rings. They go to class.

SCENE 6: MEET MISS HONEY AND CLASSMATES.

Classroom.

MISS HONEY: ok kids, let’s welcome our new classmates: Matilda

Wormwood and Lavender Fields.
Children greet.
We are very happy to have you in our class and in Crunchem hall.
Could each of you say your names, and what you love about yourselves
please.

MATILDA: My name is Matilda, and I love that I love to read and learn.

LAVENDER: I’m Lavender, I love that I am smart.

NICKY: Hello I’m Nicky, I don’t like to speak in public, I have anxiety…
but mummy says I’ll be ne.

ERIKA: My name is Erika, and I can move things with my mind….

MISS HONEY: Thank you Erika. Amanda, you go next.

AMANDA: Hello! I’m Amanda, and I like the color pink.

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BROOKE: My name is Brooke, and I love sweets and treats, I like to cook
too.

MISS HONEY: Ok class. Today we are going to talk about Stories in

Literature. The Types of stories are called genres.
The Literary genres are: fable, fairy tale, fantasy, ction….

The bell rings again.

MISS HONEY: Well class is time for recess…. See you soon.

Children storm out….

SCENE 7 : MEET MISS TRUNCHBULL.

Children playing in the yard.

BROOKE: Have you met her?

MATILDA: Who?

ERIKA: Her…. Mrs. Trunchbull.

LAVENDER: Who is she?

The prefects come and join the conversation.

HORTENSIA: She’s the headmaster. She’s evil.

PREFECT 1: She only likes things her way.

PREFECT 2: she was an Olympic javelin thrower in 1972.

HORTENSIA: She’s strong…

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 Nicky comes running.

NICKY: help!!! Miss Trunchbull is after me. Because I was chewing too
hard.

We listen a loud speaker

Miss Trunchbull enters (music)

MATILDA: quick, under the jackets.

TRUNCHBULL: Amanda Tripp!!!

AMANDA: Yes miss Trunchbull.

TRUNCHBULL: What have I said about pigtails?

AMANDA: that you dislike them miss Trunchbull.

TRUNCHBULL: soooo…. Why do you have them on today?

AMANDA: My mother says they make me look pretty.

TRUNCHBULL: well, never, wear pigtails again or else…. CHOCKEY!

She throws Amanda.

Please check if she’s alive.

AMANDA: I’m alive!

All children cheer…

MISS TRUNCHBULL: now were is Nicky Baller?

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MATILDA: Nicky is over there Miss Trunchbull under those coats. Where
she’s been for the last hour, actually. She suffers from the rare, but chronic
sleep disorder, narcolepsy. Experiencing bouts of chronic fatigue, and
falling suddenly asleep, often without knowing, or any warning at all. You
see, she fell asleep, and we put her under the coats for safety. Didn’t we?
She’ll probably think she’s in bed when she wakes up.

MISS TRUNCHBULL: arrg! And you are?

MATILDA: Matilda Wormwood.

MISS TRUNCHBULL: well, Matilda Wormwood, you better watch your

back…..
Bell rings…. All children scream

TRUNCHBULL: Saved by the bell… go you lthy little brats, never believe
that you will be something great like me when you grow up…. You are all
“good-for-nothings”….

Children go home… Matilda goes to the library.

MATILDA WALKS TO THE LIBRARY TO TALK TO MRS PHELPS.

SCENE 9: THE ACROBAT AND THE ESCAPOLOGIST CONTINUE

MATILDA: Mrs. Phelps! I know how the story continues….

MRS. PHELPS: Can’t wait!!! ….. soo the Acrobat and the Escapologist
were Sad.

MATILDA: yes… this is why… the acrobat had great news:

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 Matilda stays aside with mrs Phleps, and you can’t hear their voice, the
acrobat and escapologist come alive.

ACROBAT: A baby, we are having a baby!

ESCAPOLOGIST: Don’t tell my sister, for she may tell us to leave the
circus.

ACROBAT: I know… but I am not feeling very well.

Lights on Matilda.
MATILDA: time passed… and the acrobat got ill. She died at child birth.

MRS. PHELPS: Oh no! Go on, go on.

We go back to the circus..

SISTER: You can live with me, but she’ll have to work.

ESCAPOLOGIST: please help me take care of her, I’ll work for free.

The escapologist makes an act.

MATILDA: so the escapologist couldn’t escape, and that was his last
act…
So the little girl was destined to live and work for her aunt.

MRS. PHELPS: and then… that cannot be the end.

MATILDA: not all stories have happy endings.

Bye now…
se leaves sad.

MRS PHELPS: Matilda!!!

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SCENE 10: CHOCOLATE CAKE

Bell Rings. All children are in the school’s dining room talking, eating, etc.
Trunchbull enters

TRUNCHBULL: This morning a piece of my private chocolate cake was

stolen. It is my contention that you performed this vileness, Wormwood,
you.
You have 2 choices, admit your guilt and be punished, or call me a Liar
and be punished. Think very carefully of what comes out of your mouth
Wormwood.

MATILDA: I did not-…

We hear a Big burp coming from Brook.

All react.
Awkward silence.

TRUNCHBULL: Brooke Bogtrotter.

BROOKE: (scarily) yes miss Trunchbull?

TRUNCHBULL: you liked my cake, didn’t you Brooke?

BROOKE: Yes miss Trunchbull it was very delicious. So chocolatey, and

I’m really very sorry I—

TRUNCHBULL: No no no. Just as long as you enjoy the cake, that’s the
main thing…

BROOKE: is it?

TRUNCHBULL: Surprise, surprise….

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 A cake comes in, and a bib for Brooke.
Students react and whisper.

TRUNCHBULL: Be still! What’s the matter Bogtrotter, lost your appetite?

Don’t worry, all you have to do is to eat every last crumb. And if you
perform this incredible feat, I promise you all will be forgiven.

BROOKE: every crumb… but I’m full

TRUNCHBULL: o no! Criminals like you are not full. I tell you when you are
full.
Eat!

BROOKE: but I can’t eat it all.

MISS HONEY: Headmistress she’ll be sick.

TRUNCHBULL: she should’ve thought of that before she decided to eat

my cake. Eat! Eat! Eat!
Cake song while she eats.
She nishes the cake. All Cheer!

MISS HONEY: gooooo Brookie!!!!!(Screams)

Awkward silence. Trunchbull stares.

MISS HONEY: sorry I got carried away.

TRUNCHBULL: Oh that’s Ok. We all get carried away sometimes….. even

me….
Well come along Bogtrotter…

BROOKE: What?

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TRUNCHBULL: Oh! I didnt tell you, there is a part 2. CHOCKEY.

MISS HONEY: Oh! No please, that’s not fair.

TRUNCHBULL: I set the rules around here…

MATILDA: no! You said that if she ate every last crumb she’d be forgiven.
That’s not fair, that’s cheating! You can’t just change the rules.

TRUNCHBULL: you just said NO to me. (Pause)

Come along Bogtrotter.
Wormwood will be dealt with later, as all of you….
As you see children, I always win and you always loose because you are
weak, tiny, itchy and insigni cant..
Children walk home, sad.

MISS HONEY: Don’t listen to her children, you are smart, loved and
important. You can achieve whatever you dream of when you grow up.
Tell me what do you want to do when you grow up….

SCENE 11: WHEN I GROW UP

When I grow up,

I will be tall enough to reach the branches
That I need to reach to climb the trees
You get to climb when you're grown up.

And when I grow up,

I will be smart enough to answer all
The questions that you need to know
The answers to before you're grown up.

And when I grow up,

I will eat sweets every day,
On the way to work, and I will

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 Go to bed late every night.
And I will wake up
When the sun comes up, and I
Will watch cartoons until my eyes go square,
And I won't care 'cause I'll be all grown up.

When I grow up (x 4)...

I will be strong enough to carry all
The heavy things you have to haul
Around with you when you're a grown up.

And
When I grow up (x 3)...
I will be brave enough to ght the creatures
That you have to ght beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown up.

And when I grow up,

I will have treats every day,
And I'll play with things that mum pretends
That mums don't think are fun.

And I will wake up

When the sun comes up and I
Will spend all day just lying in the sun.
And I won't burn 'cause I'll be all grown up.
When I grow up...

(Ms. Honey:)
When I grow up,
I will be brave enough to ght the creatures
That you have to ght beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown up.

When I grow up...

(Matilda:)
Just because you nd that life's not fair, it
Doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it.
If you always take it on the chin and wear it, nothing will change.

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 Just because I nd myself in this story,
It doesn't mean that everything is written for me.
All children leave, Matilda and Miss Honey stay…. Thinking.

SCENE 12: MISS HONEY AND MATILDA.

Starts to rain. Thunder noise.

MISS HONEY: Matilda, are you going home? It’s pouring rain!

MATILDA: I don’t feel like it….

MISS HONEY: Come with me.

Miss Honey’s house.

MATILDA: They sure pay badly to teachers.

MISS HONEY: They do. This is not much but it’s enough for me.
My father left me this little house. He died when I was young… he left my
aunt like my legal guardian. She’s been very….

MATILDA: bad? Miss Honey, what did your father do?

MISS HONEY: he was a esca..

MATILDA: escapologist!

MISS HONEY: and my mother was an

BOTH: acrobat!!!

MATILDA: the story is about you!!!!! Your aunt is miss Trunchbull! I can’t
believe it!….. (pause)
I guess not all stories have happy endings.

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MISS HONEY: I don’t see why not! I love what I do, I get to be and learn
very so much about you and your friends. And I believe that love changes
even the most ugly, sad, nasty person….

MATILDA: oh miss Honey, I wish I had love in my house, my parents don’t

seem to mind what I do, what I tell them..

MISS HONEY: give it time…

MATILDA: well. I still think miss Trunchbull needs to be stopped. I get

really mad the way she treats us, and you….

While Matilda is talking she moves a cup or ornament with her mind.

MATILDA: did you see that??

MISS HONEY: Matilda! That was you?

This will be our secret…..

Miss Honey and Matilda Exit.

SCENE 12: SPELLING BEE. REVOLTING CHILDREN.

Miss Trunchbull enters and so the classroom.

TRUNCHBULL: Children, your are my biggest fail as an educator and

headmistress!!!! I can’t believe this behavior!

So today we will have a spelling test and any child who gets a single
answer wrong goes to CHOCKEY!

MATILDA: you can’t do that!

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TRUNCHBULL: why? Because of yesterday’s incident?
You! (Pointing to Nicky) Nicky stands.
Spell NEWT

NICKY: N- E- W-T Newt

TRUNCHBULL: What? How do you know that?

ERICA: Miss Honey taught us. She’s very good at teaching.

TRUNCHBULL: Miss Honey is far to soft and peachy to be good at

anything.

You! (Pointing to Amanda, Amanda stands)

Spell the one thing you all are: REVOLTING

AMANDA: Revolting. R-E-V-O-L-T-I-N-G Revolting

TRUNCHBULL: You are cheating pigtails!

MISS HONEY: she’s not cheating , She’s simply spelling the word.
I taught with kindness, and patience and respect.

TRUNCHBULL: How dare you bring those words into my classroom!

You! (Pointing to Lavender)
Spell: AMCHELLAKAMANIALSEPTRICOLISTIMOSIS

MISS HONEY: but that’s not even a word!

TRUNCHBULL: Spell it or go to chockey! And I should warn you it has

silent letters.

LAVENDER: A-M-C-H-E-L-A

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TRUNCHBULL: Wrong! Has a double L…. To Chockey
Children start to stand and spell words wrong.

ERICA: CAT, C-A-F CAT. I got it wrong. You have to put me in chockey too.

AMANDA: and me DOOR D-A-E-R DOOR

ALICE: table X-A-B-F-Y and me!

LAVENDER: you can’t do this to us…. BANANA: T-H-Y-B-A N-A

All children start to chant and yell letters and words.

TRUNCHBULL: You are all going to chockey!

MATILDA STARTS TO WRITE ON THE BOARD.

ALL CHILDREN POINT TO THE BOARD IN AW. TRUNCHBULL GETS
FRIGHTENED.

TRUNCHBULL: What is happening! The aliens have come after me!!!

Everybody screams and torment miss Trunchbull.

BROOkE STARTS SINGING

Whoa!
Never again will she get the best of me
Never again will she take away my freedom
And we won't forget the day we fought
For the right to be a little bit naughty!
Never again will the chokey door slam
Never again will I be bullied and
Never again will I doubt it when
My mummy says I'm a miracle

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 Never again will we live behind bars
Never again now that we know that we are
Revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
Til our revolting's done
And we'll have the Trunchbull bolting
We're revolting!
We are revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
'Til our revolting's done
And we'll have the Trunchbull bolting
We're revolting!
We will become a screaming horde!
Take out your hockey stick and use it as a sword
Never again will we be ignored
We'll find out where the chalk is stored
And draw rude pictures on the board
It's not insulting
We're revolting!
We can S-P-el how we like!
If enough of us are wrong, wrong is right!
Everyone! N-O-R-T-Y?
'Cause we're a little bit naughty!
You say we oughta stay inside the line
But if we disobey at the same time
There is nothing that the Trunchbull can do

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 She can take her hammer and S-H-U(v)
You mighta thought we were weak but we're strong!
Mighta thought we would break but you're wrong!
Because you finally pushed us too far
Now there's no going back cos we...
R-E-V-O-L-T-I-N
Revolting times!
We'll S-I-N-G
Songs!
U-S-I-N-G
Rhymes!
We'll be R-E-V-O-L-T-I-N-G
It is 2-L-8-4-U-E-R-E-vol-ting!
We are revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
Til our revolting's done
It is 2-L-8-4-U, 4-U, 4-U, 4-U, 4-U!
We are revolting children
Never again will she get the best of me
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Whoa, yeah
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
'Til our revolting's done
Down, down, down, down!
It is 2-L-8-4-U
We are revolting!

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SCENE 13: MATILDA STAYS WITH MISS HONEY.

Children celebrate “they won the battle”, and suddenly Matilda’s Mom
comes in.

MRS. WORMWOOD: Matilda, let’s go! Let’s quit this nonsense about
coming to school. I’m leaving to Spain to start my modeling career.

MATILDA: But I don’t wanna go! I want to stay here.

GIRLS: Let her stay please. Don’t go Matilda.

MRS WORMWOOD: we do not have a choice…. Either you come with

me… or foster care….

Girls talk and complain…

MISS HONEY: There might be another choice…

MRS WORMWOOD: what?????

MISS HONEY: She can stay with me.

MATILDA: really??

MRS WORMWOOD: ne! Where do I sign?

Hortensia comes with some papers.

HORTENSIA: Adoption papers! Sign here!

MISS HONEY: See! This story has a Happy ending after all.

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MATILDA: Thank you miss Honey! Thank you friends.
All girls hug and start singing.

WALKING ON SUNSHINE.

Oh!
Ohhhh, yeeeh
I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I'm sure
And I just can't wait till the day when you knock on my door
Now everytime I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
'Cause I just can't wait till you write me you're coming around
I'm walking on sunshine, wooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
And don't it feel good!
Hey, alright now
And dont it feel good!
Hey yeah
I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that it's true
And I don't want to spend my whole life, just waiting for you
Now I don't want u back for the weekend
Not back for a day, no no no
I said baby I just want you back and I want you to stay
Woah yeah!
I'm walking on sunshine, wooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
And don't it feel good!!
Hey, alright now
And don't it feel good!!
Yeah, oh yeah
And don't it feel good!!
Walking on sunshine
Walking on sunshine
I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real
I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real
I'm on sunshine baby oh, oh yeah
I'm on sunshine baby oh
I'm walking on sunshine, wooah

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 I'm walking on sunshine, wooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
And don't it feel good
Hey, alright now
And don't it feel good
I'll say it, say it, say it again now
And don't it feel good!!
Ohhhh, yeahhhh
And don't it feel good
Now don't it, don't it, don't it, don't it, don't it, don't it feel good
I'll say it, say it, say it again now
And don't feel good
Now don't it, don't it, don't it, don't it, don't it, don't it feel good
Tell me, tell me, tell me again now
And don't it feel good
Ohhhh, yeahhhh
And don't it feel good
Oh don't it feel good, don't it feel good
Now don't it feel good?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah (Don't it feel good)

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