Sister: leaders, and had been of late much
accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria declared for him, and
even Stigand Alice!
Alice: Hmm?
Oh, I’m listening.
Sister: And even Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury, agreed to meet with William and
offer him the crown.
Alice: He he
he!
Sister: William’s conduct at first was mo.
Alice: He he
he!
Sister: Alice!
Will you kindly pay attention to your history lesson?
Alice:
I’m sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no
pictures in it?
Sister: My dear child, there are a great many good books in this world without
pictures.
Alice: In this
world perhaps. But in my world, the books would be nothing but pictures.
Sister: Your world? Huh, what nonsense. Now
Alice:
Nonsense?
Sister: Once more. From the beginning.
Alice:
That’s it, Dinah! If I had a world of my own, everything would be
nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it
isn’t. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn’t be, and what it
wouldn’t be, it would. You see?
Dinah: Meow!
Alice: In my
world, you wouldn’t say ‘meow’. You’d say ‘Yes,
miss Alice’.
Dinah: Meow!
Alice: Oh, but
you would! You’d be just like people, Dinah, and all the other animals
too. Why, in my world Cats and rabbits, would reside in fancy little houses,
and be dressed in shoes and hatsand trousers. In a world of my own. All the
flowers would have very extra special powers, they would sit and talk to me for
hours, when I’m lonely in a world of my own. There’d be new birds,
lots of nice and friendly how-de-do birds, everyone would have a dozen
bluebirds, within that world of my own. I could listen to a babbling brook and
here a song, that I could understand. I keep wishing it could be that way,
because my world would be a wonderland.
Dinah: Meow! Meow! Meow!
Alice: Oh
Dinah! It’s just a rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch!
White Rabbit: Oh my fur and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late I’m
late!
Alice: Now this
is curious! What could a rabbit possibly be late for? Please, sir!
White Rabbit: I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No
time to say hello, goodbye! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!
Alice: It must
be awfully important, like a party or something! Mister Rabbit! Wait!
White Rabbit: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I’m overdue. I’m really
in a stew. No time to say goodbye, hello! I’m late, I’m late,
I’m late!
Alice: My, what
a peculiar place to have a party.
Dinah: Meow!
Alice: You
know, Dinah, we really shouldn’tuhhuhhbe doing this After
all, we haven’t been invited! And curiosity often leads to troubl –
l – l – e – e – e! Goodbye, Dinah! Goodbye! Oh!
Well, after this I shall think nothing of fa- of falling downstairs! Oh!
Ahhh Oh, Goodness! What if I shouldfall right through the center of the
earth oh, and come out the other side, where people walk upside down. Oh,
but that’s silly. Nobody oh! Oh, ha ha. Oh, mister Rabbit! Wait!
Please! Curiouser and curiouser!
Doorknob: Ohhhhh!!
Alice: OH! Oh,
I beg your pardon.
Doorknob: Oh, oh, it’s quite all right. But you did give me quite a turn!
Alice: You see,
I was following
Doorknob: Rather good, what? Doorknob, turn?
Alice: Please,
sir.
Doorknob: Well, one good turn deserves another! What can I do for you?
Alice: Well,
I’m looking for a white rabbit. So, um, if you don’t mind
Doorknob: Uh? Oh!
Alice: There he
is! I simply must get through!
Doorknob: Sorry, you’re much too big. Simply impassible.
Alice: You mean
impossible?
Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing’s impossible! Why don’t you try
the bottle on the table?
Alice: Table?
Oh!
Doorknob: Read the directions, and directly you’ll be directed in the
right direction. He he he!
Alice:
‘Drink me’. Hmmm, better look first. For if one drinks much from a
bottle marked ‘poison’, it’s almost certain to disagree with
one, sooner or later.
Doorknob: Beg your pardon!
Alice: I was
just giving myself some good advice. But hmm, tastes like oh cherry
tart custard pineapple roast turkey goodness! What did I do?
Doorknob: Ho ho ho ho! You almost went out like a candle!
Alice: But
look! I’m just the rightsize!
Doorknob: Oh, no use! Ha ha ha ha. I forgot to tell you, ho ho ho ho! I’m
locked!
Alice: Oh no!
Doorknob: Ha ha ha, but of course, uh, you’ve got the key, so
Alice: What
key?
Doorknob: Now, don’t tell me you’ve left it up there!
Alice: Oh, dear!
What ever will I do?
Doorknob: Try the box, naturally.
Alice: Oh!
‘Eat me’. All right. But goodness knows what this will do wow,
wow, wow, wow, wow!
Doorknob: whtwhsthswwdthdwd!
Alice: What did
you say?
Doorknob: I said: ‘a little of that went a long way’! Ha ha ha ha!
Alice: Well, I
don’t think it’s so funny! Now- now I do never get ou-out!
Doorknob: Oh, come on now. Crying won’t help.
Alice: I know,
but I- I- I just can’t stop!
Doorknob: Hey, hey you! Bwbwlwbbwlwbl! Say, this won't do at all! You, you up
there, stop!
Stop, I say! Oh look! The bottle, the bottle
Alice: Oh dear,
I do wish I hadn’t cried so much.
Doorknob: glpglpglp
Dodo: Oh, the sailor’s life is the life for me, how I love to sail on the
bounding sea, and I never never ever do a thing about the weather for the
weather never ever does a thing for me. Oh, a sailor’s life is a life for
me, tiddle um dum pom pom dum de dee! And I never ne ahoy! And other
nautical expressions! Land ho, by Jove!
Parrot: Where away, Dodo?
Alice: Dodo?
Dodo: Three points to starboard. Follow me, me hearties! Have you at port no
time at all now, haha!Oh
Alice: Mister
Dodo!
Dodo: Johoho, and a bottle of sea, we love each time
Alice: Please!
Please help me! Um, pardon me, but uh, would you mind helping me? Please?
Yoo Ho! Yoo Ho! Help me! Please! Help me!
Dodo: Forward, backward, inward, outward, come and join the chase! Nothing
could be drier than a jolly caucus-race. Backward, forward, outward, inward, bottom
to the top, never a beginning there can never be a stop to skipping, hopping,
tripping, fancy free and gay, I started it tomorrow and will finish yesterday.
Round and round and round we go, and dance for evermore, once we were behind
but now we find we are be-forward, backward, inward, outward, come and join the
chase! Nothing could be drier than a jolly caucus-race. For backward I say!
You’ll never get dry that way!
Alice: Get dry?
Dodo: Have to run with the others! First rule of a caucus-race, you know!
Alice: But how
can I
Dodo: That’s better! Have you dry in no time now!
Alice: No-one
can ever get dry this way!
Dodo: Nonsense! I am as dry as a bone already.
Alice: Yes,
but
Dodo: All right, chaps! Let's head now! Look lively!
Alice: The
white rabbit! Mister Rabbit! Mi- mister Rabbit!
White Rabbit: Oh, my goodness! I’m late! I’m late!
Alice: Oh,
don’t go away! I’ll be right back!
White Rabbit: I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!
Dodo: Don’t step on the fish! Eric, there, won’t you there stop
kickingthat mackerel! William
Alice: Mister
Rabbit! Oh, mister Rabbit! Oh dear, I’m sure he came this way. Do you
suppose he could be hiding? Hmmm not here. I wonder No, I suppose he must
have Oh! Why, what peculiar little figures! Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!
Tweedle Dee: If you think we’re wax-works, you ought to pay, you know!
Tweedle Dum: Contrariwise, if you think we’re alive you ought to speak to
us!
Dee & Dum: That’s logic!
Alice: Well,
it’s been nice meeting you. Goodbye!
Dee: You’re beginning backwards!
Dum: Aye, the first thing in a visit is to say: How do you do and shake hands,
shake hands, shake hands. How do you do and shake hands and state your name and
business.
Dee & Dum: That’s manners!
Alice: Really?
Well, my name is Alice
and I’m following a white rabbit. So
Dee: You can’t go yet!
Dum: No, the visit has just started!
Alice:
I’m very sorry
Dum: Do you like to play hide-and-seek?
Dee: Or button-button, who’s got the
button?
Alice: No,
thank you.
Dee: If you stay long enough we might have a
battle!
Alice: That's
very kind of you, but I must be going.
Dee & Dum: Why?
Alice: Because
I am following a white rabbit!
Dee & Dum: Why?
Alice: Well, I-
I’m curious to know where he is going!
Dum: Ohhhh, she’s curious! Tsk! tsk! tsk! ts!
Dee: The oysters were curious too,
weren’t they?
Dum: Aye, and you remember what happenedto them
Dee & Dum: Poor things!
Alice: Why?
What did happen to the oysters?
Dee: Oh, you wouldn’t be interested.
Alice: But I
am!
Dum: Oh, no. You’re in much too much of a hurry!
Alice: Well,
perhaps I could spare a little time
Dee & Dum: You could? Well
Dee: ‘The Walrus and the
Carpenter’!
Dum: Or: ‘The story of the curious Oysters’!
Dee & Dum: The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might, he
did his very best to make the billows full and bright. And this was odd,
because it was the middle of the night. The Walrus and the Carpenter were
walking close at hand. The beach was white from side to side but much too full
of sand. ‘Mister Walrus’, said the Carpenter: ‘My brain
begins to burke. We’ll sweep this clear in half a year, if you don't mind
the work.'
Walrus: Work? Uh, pff, brrrr! Uh the time has come (the Walrus said), to talk
of other things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings.
And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. Calloo, callay, no
work today! We’re cabbages and kings! Oh, uhhh, oysters, come and walk
with us. The day is warm and bright! A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, would be
a sheer delight!
Carpenter: Yes, and should we get hungry on the way, we’ll stop and uh
have a bite!
Walrus: Hrmmmm!
Dee & Dum: But mother Oyster winked her eye and shook her heavy head. She
knew too well this was no time to leaveher oyster bed.
Mother oyster: The sea is nice, take my advice, and stay right here.
Dee & Dum: Mom said.
Walrus: Yes, yes, of course, of course! But eh haha! The time has come, my little
friends, to talk of other things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of
cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have
wings. Haha! Calloo, callay, come run away! We’re the cabbages and kings!
Hrmmm, well now, uh let me see Ah! A loaf of bread is what we chiefly
need.
Carpenter: How about some pepper and salt and vinegar, aye?
Walrus: Oh yes, yes, splendid idea! Haha, very good indeed! Now, if
you’re ready, oysters dear haha we can begin to feed.
Oysters: Feed?
Walrus: Oh yes, ahh, the time has come, my little friends, to talk of food and
things!
Carpenter: Of peppercorns and mustard seed and other seasonings. We’ll
mix some all together in a sauce as good for kings. Callooh, callay,
we’ll live today, like cabbages and kings!
Walrus: I uh, weep for you, I -uh- oh, excuse me, I deeply sympathize. For I've
enjoyed your company, oh, much more than you realize.
Carpenter: Little oysters, little oysters
Dee & Dum: But answer there came none. And this was scarcely odd, because,
they’d been eaten, every one!
Walrus: Hmm, well, uhhh, ha ha, ha ha, ha ha, hmm the time has come!
Dee & Dum: With cabbages and kings! The end!
Alice: That was
a very sad story.Dum: Aye, and there’s a moral to it.
Alice: Oh yes,
a very good moral, if you happen to be an oyster. Well, it’s been a very
nice visit
Dum: Another recitation
Alice:
I’m sorry, but
Dum: It’s titled ‘Father William’.
Alice: But
really, I’m
Dum: First verse: You are old father William, the young man said and your hair
has become very white. And yet you incessantly stand on your head, do you think
at your age it is right, is right, do you think at your age it is right? Well,
in me youth, father William replied to his son, I’d do it again and again
and again and I’d done it again and again and again
Alice: Now I wonder who lives here
White Rabbit: Mary Ann! ?? that girl. Where did she put 'em? Mary Ann!
Alice: The
rabbit!
White Rabbit: Mary Ann! No use, can’t wait, I’m awfully late, oh me
oh might oh me oh might!
Alice: Excuse
me sir, but- but I’ve been trying to
White Rabbit: Why, Mary Ann! What are you doing out here?
Alice: Mary
Ann?
White Rabbit: Don’t just do something standing Uh no no! Go go! Go
get my gloves! I’m late!
Alice: But late
for what? That’s just what I
White Rabbit: My gloves! At once, do you hear!
Alice:
Goodness. I suppose I’ll be taking orders from Dinah next. Hmmm, now let
me see. If I were a rabbit, where would I keep my gloves? Oh! Thank you.
Don’t mind if I do. Hmhm. Hmhm. Hmhmhmhmhmhm. Hmhmhmhmhmhm-oeh! Oh no no,
notagain!
White Rabbit: Oh! Mary Ann! Now you see here, Mary Ann Help! No! No! Help!
Monsters! Help, assistance!
Alice: No
no no dear!
White Rabbit: A monster! A monster, Dodo! In my house, Dodo!
Alice: Dodo?
White Rabbit: Oh might, poor little bitty house
Dodo: Uh, steady old champ.Can't be as bad as all that you know.
White Rabbit: Oh my poor roof and rafters, all my walls and there it is!
Dodo: By Jove! Jolly well?? is! Isn’t it?
White Rabbit: Well, do something, Dodo!
Dodo: Yes, indeed! Extraordinary situation, but eh
White Rabbit: But- but- but- but- but what?
Dodo: But I have a very simple solution!
Alice: Thank
goodness!
White Rabbit: Wha- wha- what is it?
Dodo: Simply pull it out the chimney.
White Rabbit: Yes, go- go- go ahead, go ahead! Pull it out!
Dodo: Who? Me? Don’t be ridiculous! What we need is eh a lizard with a
ladder!
White Rabbit: Hmm? Oh! Bill! Bill! Eh, we need a lazzerd with a lizard, a
lizard a bbb can you help us?
Bill: At your service, governor!
Dodo: Here, my lad??. Have you ever been down a chimney?
Bill: Why governor, I’ve been down more chimneys
Dodo: Excellent, excellent. You just pop down the chimney, and haul that
monster out of there.
Bill: Righto, governor! Monster? Hoeaaaaah! No! No! .
Dodo: That’s better! Bill, lad, you’re passing up a golden
opportunity!
Bill: I am?Dodo: You can be famous!
Bill: I can?
Dodo: Of course! There’s a brave lad! In you go now. Nothing to it, old
boy. Simply tie your tail around the monsters neck and drag it out!
Bill: But- but- but governor!
Dodo: Good luck, Bill!
Alice: Ah- ah-
ah- ah choo!
Dodo: Well, there goes Bill
Alice: Poor
Bill
Dodo: Ehh, perhaps we should try a more energetic remedy.
White Rabbit: Yes, anything, anything. But hurry!
Dodo: No, I- I propose that we uhh
White Rabbit: Yes, come on, come on, yes, yes
Dodo: I propose that we uhh dow! By Jove! That’s it! We’ll
burn the house down!
White Rabbit: Yes, hihi! Burn the house what?
Alice: Oh no!
Dodo: Hi ho! Oh, we’ll smoke the blighter out. He‘ll put the beast
to rout. Some kindling, a stick or two, all this bit of rubbish ought to do.
White Rabbit: Oh dear
Dodo: We’ll smoke the blighter there out, we’ll smoke the monster
out!
White Rabbit: No, no! Not my beautiful house!
Dodo: Oh, we’ll roast the blighter's toes, we’ll toast the
bounder's nose! Go fetch that gate, we’ll make it clear that monsters
aren’t welcome here.
White Rabbit: Oh me, oh my
Dodo: A match!
White Rabbit: Match?
Dodo: Thank you! We’ll blow the thing there out, we’ll smoke the
monster out!
White Rabbit: We’ll smoke the monster out noho! Noho, my poor house
and furniture
Alice: Oh dear,
this is serious! Isimply must oh! A garden! Perhaps if I will eat something
it will make me grow smaller
White Rabbit: Ahhhh! Oh, let go! Help!
Alice:
I’m sorry, but I must eat something!
White Rabbit: Not me, you- you- you- you- you barbarian! Help! Monsters! Help!
Ah! I’m late! Oh dear, I’m here, I should be there! I’m late,
I’m late, I’m late!
Dodo: Ah, say, do you have a match?
White Rabbit: Must go. Goodbye. Hello. I’m late, I’m late,
I’m late!
Alice: Wait!
Please wait!
Dodo: Ah, young lady! Do you have a match?
Alice: No, I-
I’m sorry, but mister Rabbit!
Dodo: No cooperation, no cooperation at all? We can’t have monsters
about! Jolly will have to carry on alone! Pf, pf, pf, pf
Alice: Wait!
Please! Just a minute! Oh, dear. I’ll never catch him while I’m
this small. Why curious butterflies!
Rose: You mean bread-and-butterflies.
Alice: Oh, yes,
of course, I hmm? Now who do you suppose Ah, a horse fly! I mean, a- a
rocking horse fly!
Rose: Naturally!
Alice: I beg
your pardon, but uhh did you oh, that’s nonsense. Flowers
can’t talk.
Rose: But of course we can talk, my dear.
Snap-dragon: If there’s anyone worth talking to.
Marguerite: Or about! Hahahaha!
Violets: And we sing too!
Alice: You do?
Tulips: Oh, yes. Would you like to hear ‘Tell it to the tulips’?
Larkspur??: No, let’s sing about us!
Violets: We know one about the shy little violets1st Lily: Oh, no, not that
old thing!
2nd Lily: Let’s do ‘Lovely lily at the valley’!
Daisies: How about the daisies in the
Lilac: Oh, she wouldn’t like that!
Rose: Girls, girls! We shall sing: ‘Golden afternoon’. That’s
about all of us! Sound your A, Lily!
Lily: Laaaa
Violets: Mimimimi
Marguerite: Lalalala
Snap-dragon: Hahahahahahaha
Marigolds: Poem, poepoem, poem, poempoempoempoem.
All flowers: Little bread-and-butterflies kiss the tulips, and the sun is like
a toy balloon. There are get up in the morning glories, in the golden
afternoon. There are dizzy daffodils on the hillside, strings of violets are
all in tune, Tiger lilies love the dandy lions, in the golden afternoon, the
golden afternoon. There are dog and caterpillars and a copper centipede, where
the lazy daisies love the very peaceful life they lead You can learn a lot
of things from the flowers, for especially in the month of June. There’s
a wealth of happiness and romance, all in the golden afternoon. All in the
golden afternoon, the golden afternoon
Alice: You can
learn a lot of things from the flowers, for especially in the month of June.
There’s a wealth of happiness and romance, oh
Flowers: the golden afternoon!
Alice: Oh, that
was lovely.
Rose: Thank you, my dear.
Marguerite: What kind of garden do you come from?
Alice: Well I
don’t come from any garden
Marguerite: Oh,do you suppose she’s a wild flower?
Alice: Oh no,
I’m not a wild flower
Rose: Just what specie, or shall we say, genus, are you, my dear?
Alice: Well, I
suppose you call me a genus, humanus, eh Alice!
Marguerite: Ever seen an Alice
with a blossom like that?
Snap-dragon: Come to think of it, did you ever see an Alice?
Marguerite: Yes, and did you notice her petals? What a peculiar color!
Snap-dragon: And no fragrance!
Marguerite: Hahaha! Just look at those stems!
Snap-dragon: Rather scrawny, I'd say.
Rose bud: I think she’s pretty!
Rose: Quiet, bud!
Alice: But
I’m not a flower!
Snap-dragon: Aha! Just as I suspected! She’s nothing but a common mobile
vulgaris!
Flowers: Oh no!
Alice: A common
what?
Snap-dragon: To put it bluntly: a weed!
Alice:
I’m not a weed!
Tulip: Well, you wouldn’t expect her to admit it.
Lilac: Can you imagine!
Marguerite: Well, goodness!
Lily: Don’t let her stay here and go to seed!
Other flower??: Go on now!
Rose: Please, girls
Violets: We don’t want weeds in our bed!
Alice: Oh, all
right, if that’s the way you feel about it. If I were my right size, I
could pick every one of you if I wanted to! And I'd guess that'd teach you!
Flowers: He he he!
Alice: You can
learn a lot of things from the flowers Huh! Seems to me they could learn a
few things about manners!
Caterpillar: A, e i o u, a e i o u, a ei o u, o, u e i o a, u e i a, a e i o
u Who are you?
Alice: I- I- I
hardly know, sir! I changed so many times since this morning, you see
Caterpillar: I do not see. Explain yourself.
Alice: Why,
I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not
myself, you know
Caterpillar: I do not know.
Alice: Well, I
can’t put it anymore clearly for it isn’t clear to me!
Caterpillar: You? Who are you?
Alice: Well,
don’t you think you ought to tell me- cough-cough, cough-cough, who you
are first?
Caterpillar: Why?
Alice: Oh dear.
Everything is so confusing.
Caterpillar: It is not.
Alice: Well, it
is to me.
Caterpillar: Why?
Alice: Well, I
can’t remember things as I used to, and
Caterpillar: Recite.
Alice: Hmm? Oh!
Oh, oh, yes, sir! Um how doth the little busy bee, improve each such
Caterpillar: Stop! That is not spoken correcitically. It goes: how
Alice: He he
he!
Caterpillar: Hmm! How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail. And pour
the waters of the Nile, on every golden scale.
How cheer how cheer Ahem!
Alice: Ha ha
ha!
Caterpillar: How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws. And
welcomes little fishes in, with gently smiling jaws.
Alice: Well I
must say I’ve never heard it that way before
Caterpillar: I know, I have improved it.
Alice: Well,
cough-cough, if you ask me
Caterpillar: You?Huh, who are you?
Alice:
Cough-cough, cough-cough, A-choo! Oh!
Caterpillar: You there! Girl! Wait! Come back! I have something important to
say!
Alice: Oh dear.
I wonder what he wants now. Well?
Caterpillar: Keep your temper!
Alice: Is that
all?
Caterpillar: No. Exacitically, what is your problem?
Alice: Well,
it’s exacitici-, exaciti-, well, it’s precisely this: I should like
to be a little larger, sir.
Caterpillar: Why?
Alice: Well,
after all, three inches is such a wretched height, and
Caterpillar: I am exacitically three inches high, and it is a very good height
indeed!
Alice: But
I’m not used to it. And you needn’t shout! Oh dear!
Caterpillar: By the way, I have a few more helpful hints. One side will make
you grow taller
Alice: One side
of what?
Caterpillar: and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Alice: The
other side of what?
Caterpillar: The mushroom, of course!!
Alice: Hmm. One
side will make me grow but which is which? Hmm. After all that’s
happened, I- I wonder if I I don’t care. I’m tired of being only
three inches high -Yi -Yi -Yi -Yi -Yi!
Bird: Ah! A serpent! Aaaaahhh! Help! Help! Serpent! Serpent!
Alice: Oh, but
please! Please!
Bird: Off with you! Shoo! Shoo! Go away! Serpent! Serpent!
Alice: But
I’m not a serpent!
Bird: So?! Indeed? Then just what are you?
Alice:
I’m just a little girl!
Bird: Little? Ha,little? Whahahaha!
Alice: Well I
am! I mean, I- I was
Bird: And, I suppose you don’t eat eggs, either?
Alice: Yes, I
do, but
Bird: I knew!
Alice: But-
but- but
Bird: I knew it! Serpent! Serpent!
Alice: Oh, for
goodness sake! Hmmm and the other side will
Bird: A very idea! Spend all my time lying eggs, for serpents like her!
Aaaaaaahhh! Oh, Oh, oh, oh!
Alice:
Goodness I wonder if I’ll ever get the knack of it. There,
that’s much better. Hmmm I better save these. Now let’s see,
where was I? Hmmm, I wonder which way I ought to go
Cheshire Cat: ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, did gyre and gimble in
the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the momeraths outgrabe.
Alice: Now
where in the world do you suppose that
Cheshire Cat: Uh loose something?
Alice: Oh!
Hehe, Oh uhhh hehe I- I was no, no, I- I- I- I mean, I uhh I was
just wondering
Cheshire Cat: Oh uhh, that’s quite all right! Oh, hrmm, one moment please
Oh! Second chorus ‘Twas brilllig, and the slithy toves, did gyre and
gimble in the wabe
Alice: Why, why
you’re a cat!
Cheshire Cat: A Cheshire Cat. All mimsy were the borogoves
Alice: Oh,
wait! Don’t go, please!
Cheshire Cat: Very well. Third chorus
Alice: Oh no no no thank you, but- but I just wanted to ask you which way I
ought to go.
Cheshire Cat: Well, that depends on where you want to get to.Alice: Oh, it
really doesn’t matter, as long as I c
Cheshire Cat: Then it really doesn’t matter which way you go! Ah-hmm
and the momeraths outgrabe Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to
know, he went that way.
Alice: Who did?
Cheshire Cat: The white rabbit.
Alice: He did?
Cheshire Cat: He did what?
Alice: Went
that way?
Cheshire Cat: Who did?
Alice: The
white rabbit!
Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?
Alice: But
didn’t you just say I mean oh dear!
Cheshire Cat: Can you stand on your head?
Alice: Oh!
Cheshire Cat: However, if I were looking for a white rabbit, I’d ask the
Mad Hatter.
Alice: The Mad
Hatter? Uh no, no, I do- I do
Cheshire Cat: Or, there’s the March Hare. In that direction.
Alice: Oh,
thank you. I- I think I shall visit him.
Cheshire Cat: Of course, he’s mad too.
Alice: But I
don’t want to go among mad people!
Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can’t help that. Almost everyone is mad here. Ha
ha ha ha ha ha! You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself.
hahaha and the momeraths outgrabe
Alice:
Goodness. If the people here are like that, I- I must try not to upset them.
How very curious!
March Hare: to us. A very know what day today is tea forget of us??
Mad Hatter: A very merry unbirthday
March Hare: A very merry unbirthday
Mad Hatter & March Hare: A very merry unbirthday to us!
March Hare: Avery merry unbirthday to me.
Mad Hatter: To who?
March Hare: To me.
Mad Hatter: Oh you!
March Hare: A very merry unbirthday to you.
Mad Hatter: Who, me?
March Hare: Yes, you.
Mad Hatter: Oh me!
March Hare: Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea, a very merry
unbirthday to you!
March Hare & Mad Hatter: No room, no room, no room, no room, no room, no
room, no room!
Alice: But I
thought there was plenty of room!
March Hare: Ah, but it’s very rude to sit down without being invited!
Mad Hatter: I say it’s rude. It’s very very rude, indeed! Hah!
Doormouse: Very very very rude, indeed
Alice: Oh,
I’m very sorry, but I did enjoy your singing and I wondered if you could
tell me
March Hare: You enjoyed our singing?
Mad Hatter: Oh, what a delightful child! Hah! I’m so excited, we never
get compliments! You must have a cup of tea!
March Hare: Ah, yes indeed! The tea, you must have a cup of tea!
Alice: That
would be very nice. I’m sorry I interrupted your birthdayparty uh,
thank you.
March Hare: Birthday? Hahaha! My dear child, this is not a birthdayparty!
Mad Hatter: Of course not! Hehehe! This is an unbirthdayparty!
Alice:
Unbirthday? Why, I’m sorry, but I don’t quite understand.
March Hare: It’s very simple. Now, thirty days have sept- no, when an
unbirthday, if you have a birthday then you haha she doesn’t know
what an unbirthday is!Mad Hatter: How silly! Ha HA Ha Ha! Ah-hum I shall
ellusinate! Now statistics prove, prove that you’ve one birthday.
March Hare: Imagine, just one birthday every year.
Mad Hatter: Ahhh, but there are 364 unbirthdays!
March Hare: Precisely why we’re gathered here to cheer!
Alice: Why,
then today is my unbirthday too!
March Hare: It is?
Mad Hatter: What a small world this is.
March Hare: In that case a very merry unbirthday.
Alice: To me?
Mad Hatter: To you!
March Hare: A very merry unbirthday.
Alice: For me?
Mad Hatter: For you! Now blow the candle out, my dear and make your wish come
true! He he he!
March Hare & Mad hatter: A very merry unbirthday to you!
Doormouse: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat, how I wonder what you’re at! Up
above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky!
Alice: Oh, that
was lovely!
Mad Hatter: And uh, and now my dear, hehe, uh you were saying that you would
like to sit uh? You were sitting some information some kind hehe!
Alice: Oh, yes.
You see, I’m looking for a
Mad Hatter: Clean cup, clean cup! Move down!
Alice: But I
haven’t used my cup!
March Hare: Clean cup, clean cup, move down, move down, clean cup, clean cup,
move down!
Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I
haven’t had any yet, so I can’t very well take more
March Hare: Ahh, you mean you can’t very well take less!
MadHatter: Yes! You can always take more than nothing!
Alice: But I
only meant that
Mad Hatter: And now, my dear, something seems to be troubling you. Uh,
won’t you tell us all about it?
March Hare: Start at the beginning.
Mad Hatter: Yes, yes! And when you come to the end, hehehe, stop! See?
Alice: Well, it
all started while I was sitting on the riverbank with Dinah.
March Hare: Very interesting. Who’s Dinah?
Alice: Why,
Dinah is my cat. You see
Doormouse: Cat?
March Hare: Hurry! Give the jam! Quickly! Give the jam! On his nose! Put it on
his nose!
Mad Hatter: On his nose, on his nose!
Doormouse: Where’s the cat
Mad Hatter: Oh. Oh, my goodness! Those are the things that upset me!
March Hare: See all the trouble you’ve started?
Alice: But
really, I didn’t think
March Hare: Ah, but that’s the point! If you don’t think, you
shouldn’t talk!
Mad Hatter: Clean cup! Clean cup! Move down, move down, move down!
Alice: But I
still haven’t used.
Mad Hatter: Move down, move down, move down, move down And now my dear, as
you were saying?
Alice: Oh, yes.
I was sitting on the riverbank with uh with you know who
Mad Hatter: I do, hehehe?
Alice: I mean
my C - A - T
Mad Hatter: Tea?
March Hare: Just half a cup if you don’t mind.
Mad Hatter: Come, come my dear. hehehe! Don’t you care for tea?
Alice: Why,
yes, I’m very fond of tea, butMarch Hare: If you don’t care for
tea, you could at least make polite conversation!
Alice: Well,
I’ve been trying to ask you
March Hare: I have an excellent idea! Let’s change the subject!
Mad Hatter: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Alice: Riddles?
Let me see now. Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Mad Hatter: I beg your pardon?
Alice: Why is a
raven like a writing desk?
Mad Hatter: Why is a what?
March Hare: Careful! She’s stark raving mad!
Alice: But- but
it’s your silly riddle! You just said
Mad Hatter: Very good??!
March Hare: How about a nice cup of tea?
Alice: A nice
cup of tea, indeed! Well, I’m sorry, but I just haven’t the time!
March Hare: The time, the time! Who’s got the time?
White Rabbit: No, no, no, no! No time, no time, no time! Hello, goodbye!
I’m late! I’m late!
Alice: The white rabbit!
White Rabbit: Oh, I’m so late! I’m so very very late!
Mad Hatter: Well, no wonder you’re late! Why, this clock is exactly two
days slow!
White Rabbit: Two days slow?
Mad Hatter: Of course you’re late. Hahaha! My goodness. We’ll have
to look into this. A-ha! I see what’s wrong with it! Why, this watch is
full of wheels!
White Rabbit: Oh, my good watch! Oh, my wheels! My springs! But- but- but- but,
but- but- but
Mad Hatter: Butter! Of course, we need some butter! Butter!
March Hare: Butter!
White Rabbit: But- but- butter?
MadHatter: Butter, oh, thank you, butter. Ha ha. Yes, that’s fine.
White Rabbit: Oh no no, no no no you’ll get crumbs in it!
Mad Hatter: Oh, this is the very best butter! What are you talking about?
March Hare: Tea?
Mad Hatter: Tea! Oh, I never thought of tea! Of course!
White Rabbit: No!
Mad Hatter: Tea! hehehe
White Rabbit: No! Not tea!
March Hare: Sugar?
Mad Hatter: Sugar. Two spoons, yes, ha, two spoons. Thank you, yes.
White Rabbit: Oh, please! Be careful!
March Hare: Jam?
Mad Hatter: Jam! I forgot all about jam!
White Rabbit: No, no! Not jam!
Mad Hatter: Yes, sure you want, it’s nice to see.
March Hare: Mustard?
Mad Hatter: Mustard? Yes, but Mustard? Don’t let’s be silly!
Lemon, that’s different, that’s yes! That should do it. Hahaha!
Look at that!
March Hare: It’s going mad!
Alice: Oh, my goodness!
White Rabbit: Oh dear!
March Hare: It is going mad! Mad watch!
Mad Hatter: I don't understand, it's the best butter.
March Hare: Mad watch! Mad watch! Mad watch!
Mad Hatter: Oh, look! Oh my goodness!
March hare: There’s only one way to stop a mad watch!
Mad Hatter: Two days slow, that’s what it is.
White Rabbit: Oh, my watch
Mad Hatter: It was?
White Rabbit: And it was an unbirthday present too.
March Hare: Well, in that case
March Hare & Mad Hatter: A very merry unbirthday to you!
Alice: Mister Rabbit! Oh,mister Rabbit! Oh, now where did he go to?
March Hare & Mad Hatter: A very merry unbirthday to us, to us. A very merry
unbirthday to us, to us
Alice: Of all the silly nonsense, this is the stupidest tea party I’ve
ever been to in all my life. Well, I’ve had enough nonsense. I’m
going home. Straight home. That rabbit. Who cares where he’s going
anyway. Why, if it hadn’t been for him I ‘Tulgey Wood’
Hmm, curious. I don’t remember this. Now let me see Oh! Uh, no no,
please. No more nonsense. Now, if I came this way, I should go back this way!
Duck: Quack!
Alice: Oh, I beg your pardon!
Duck: Quack quack quack quack!
Alice: Goodness. When I get home I shall write a book about this place If I-
if I ever do get home Oh, um, excuse me! Um, could one of you tell me
uh ha ha, never mind. Oh dear. It’s getting dreadfully dark. And
nothing looks familiar. I shall certainly be glad to get out of Oh! It
would be so nice if something would make sense for a change! Oh!
‘Don’t step on the momeraths’. The momeraths? Oh! A path! Oh
thank goodness! Why, I just knew I’d find one sooner or later. Oh, if I
hurry back I might even be home in time for tea! Oh, would Dinah be happy to
see me! Oh, I just can’t wait ‘till I- oh! Oh dear! Now I- now I
shall never get out. Well, when- when one’s lost, I- I suppose it’s
good advice to stay where you are, until someone finds you. But- but
who’d ever think to look forme here? Good advice. If I listened earlier I
wouldn’t be here! But that’s just the trouble with me. I give myself
very good advice but I very seldom follow it. That explains the trouble that
I’m always in. Be patient is very good advice, but the waiting makes me
curious. And I'd love the change, should something strange begin. Well, I went
along my merry way, and I never stopped to reason. I should have known
there’d be a price to pay, some day. Some day. I give myself very good
advice, but I very seldom follow it. Will I ever learn to do the things I
should?
Chorus: Should I ever learn to do the things I should
Cheshire Cat: Hmhmhmhm and the momeraths outgrabe.
Alice: Oh, Cheshire Cat, it’s you!
Cheshire Cat: Whom did you expect? The white rabbit, perchance?
Alice: Oh, no no no no. I- I- I’m through with rabbits. I want to go
home! But I can’t find my way.
Cheshire Cat: Naturally. That’s because you have no way. All ways here
you see, are the queen’s ways.
Alice: But I’ve never met any queen.
Cheshire Cat: You haven’t? You haven’t? Oh, but you must!
She’ll be mad about you, simply mad! Hahaha! And the momeraths outgrabe
Alice: Please, please! Uh how can I find her?
Cheshire Cat: Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself,
personally, I prefer the shortcut.
Alice: Oh!
Card painters: Da dee dee da da da, Doodle de do, dee do dee do, bum bum bum
bum, Painting theroses red, we’re painting the roses red, we cannot stop
or waste a drop, so let the painting spread. We’re painting the roses
red, we’re painting the roses red! Painting the roses red, a bitter tear
we shed, because we know they’ll seize to grow, in fact they’ll
soon be dead. Noooo! And yet we go ahead, painting the roses red, red, red,
red, red, red, red, red. Painting the roses red, we’re painting the roses
red
Alice: Oh, pardon me, but mister Three, why must you paint them red?
Card painters: Huh? Oh! Well, the fact is, miss: we planted the white roses by
mistake. And, the queen she likes them red. If she saw what we said,
she’d raise her voice and each of us would quickly loose his head.
Alice: Goodness!
Card painters: Since this is that what we dread, we’re painting the roses
red!
Alice: Oh dear! Then let me help you! Painting the roses red
Alice & Card painters: We’re painting the roses red. Don’t tell
the queen what you have seen, or say that’s what we said, what,
we’re painting the roses red
Alice: Yes, painting the roses red
Card painters: Not pink, not green
Alice: Not aqua-marine
Alice & Card painters: We’re painting the roses red!
Card painters: The Queen! The Queen!
Alice: The Queen!
Card painters: The Queen!
Queen: Cards, halt! Count off!
Cards: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack.
Alice: The rabbit!
WhiteRabbit: Hehe her imperial highness, he her grace, her excellency,
her royal majesty, the Queen of Hearts! And the King
Mickey Mouse??: Hurray!
Queen: Hum Who’s been painting my roses red? Who’s been painting
my roses red? Who dares to taint, with vulgar paint, the royal flower bed? For
painting my roses red, someone will loose his head!
Three: Oh, no! Your majesty! Please, it’s all his fault!
Two: Not me, your grace! The Ace, the Ace!
Queen: You?
Ace: No, Two!
Queen: The Deuce you say?
Two: Not me, the Three!
Queen: That’s enough! Off with their heads!
Cards: They’re going to loose their heads, for painting the roses red, it
serves them right, they planted white, the roses should be red. Oh,
they’re going to loose their head
Queen: Silence!
Alice: Oh, please, please! They were only trying to
Queen: And who is this?
King: Uh well, well, well, now, eh let me see, my dear. It certainly
isn’t a heart do you suppose it’s a club?
Queen: Why, it’s a little girl.
Alice: Yes, and- and I was hoping
Queen: Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers! Turn out
your toes. Curtsey. Open your mouth a little wider, and always say ‘yes,
your majesty’!
Alice: Yes, your majesty!
Queen: Hmhmhmhm. Now, um, where do you come from, and where are you going?
Alice: Well, um, I’m trying to find my way home
Queen: Your way? All ways here are myways!
Alice: Well, yes, I know, but I was just thinking
Queen: Curtsey while you’re thinking, it saves time.
Alice: Yes, your majesty, but I was only going to ask
Queen: I’ll ask the questions! Do you play croquet?
Alice: Why, yes, your majesty.
Queen: Then let the game begin!
King: In your places, in your places, By order of the king! Hurry, hurry,
hurry!
Queen: Shuffle deck! Cards cut! Deal cards! Cards, halt! Silence! Pfwfwfwfw!
Off with his head!
King: Off with his head, off with his head! By order of the king. You heard
what she said!
Queen: You’re next!
Alice: Oh, but
Queen: Hahaha my dear.
Alice: Ahhh Yes, your majesty.
Queen: Hmhmhmhmhm.
Cards: Hahahahaha!
Alice: Oh hahahahaha! Stop!
Queen: Grrrwl, ??
Alice: Do you want us both to loose our heads?
Flamingo: Uh! Hum!
Alice: Well, I don’t!
Cards: Hahahaha Hurray! Hahahaha!
Cheshire Cat: La la la da da dum la la la hmm I say, how are you getting
on?
Alice: Not at all.
Cheshire Cat: Beg your pardon?
Alice: I said ‘not at all’!
Queen: Whom are you talking to?
Alice: Oh, uh a cat, your majesty!
Queen: Cat? Where?
Alice: There! Oh Oh there he is again!
Queen: I warn you child, if I loose my temper, you loose your head, understand?
Cheshire Cat: You know, we could make her really angry. Shall we try?
Alice: Oh no no!Cheshire Cat: Oh, but it’s lots of fun!
Alice: No, no, no! Stop! Oh no!
White Rabbit: Oh my fur and whiskers!
King: Oh dear! Save the queen!
Queen: Someone’s head will roll for this! Yours! Off with her
King: But- but consider, my dear. Couldn’t she have a trial uh
first?
Queen: Trial?
King: Well, just a uh little trial? Hmm?
Queen: Hmm. Very well then. Let the trial begin!
White Rabbit: Huh your majesty members of the jury loyal subjects
King: A-hem
White Rabbit: and the king. The prisoner at the bar is charged with enticing
her majesty, the Queen of Hearts, into a game of croquet, and thereby
willfully
Alice: But
White Rabbit: and with malice aforethought, teasing, tormenting, and
otherwise annoying arb
Queen: Don’t mind all that! Get to the part where I loose my temper.
White Rabbit: Bwbwbwl thereby causing the queen to loose her temper.
Queen: Now, Ha ha are you ready for your sentence?
Alice: Sentence? Ah, but there must be a verdict first!
Queen: Sentence first! Verdict afterwards.
Alice: But that just isn’t the way!
Queen: All ways are
Alice: Your ways, your majesty.
Queen: Yes, my child. Off with her
King: Consider, my dear. Uh we called no witnesses Uh couldn’t
we uh maybe one or two? Ha? Maybe?
Queen: Oh, very well. But get on with it!
King: First witness!First witness! Ah, we’ll call the first witness.
White Rabbit: The March Hare. Oh, oh, what do you know about this uh
unfortunate affair?
March Hare: Nothing.
Queen: Nothing whatever?
March Hare: Nothing whatever!
Queen: That’s very important! Jury, write that down!
Alice: Unimportant, uh your majesty means of course
Queen: Silence! Next witness.
White Rabbit: The Doormouse!
Queen: Well
Cards: Shhh!
Queen: What have you to say about this?
Doormouse: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder
Queen: That’s the most important piece of evidence we’ve heard yet.
Write that down!
Jury: Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle
Alice: Twinkle, twinkle. What next?
White Rabbit: The Mad Hatter!
Mad Hatter: Oh he he he he!
Queen: Off with your hat!
Mad Hatter: Oh, my! He he he!
King: And eh where were you when this horrible crime was committed?
Mad Hatter: I was home, drinking tea. Today you know is my unbirthday.
King: Why, my dear! Today is your unbirthday too!
Queen: It is?
March Hare & Mad Hatter: It is?
Cards: It is?
Mad Hatter, March Hare and Cards: A very merry unbirthday!
Queen: To me?
Alice: Oh no!
Mad Hatter, March Hare and Cards: To you! A very merry unbirthday!
Queen: For me?
Mad Hatter, March Hare and Cards: For you!
Mad Hatter: Now blow the candle off, my dear and make your wishcome true! He he
he
Mad Hatter, March Hare and Cards: A very merry unbirthday, to you!
Alice: Oh! Your majesty!
Queen: Oh, yes, my dear?
Alice: Look! There he is now!
Queen: He? Where? Who?
Alice: The Cheshire Cat!
Queen: Cat?
Doormouse: Cat! Cat? Cat cat cat cat!
March Hare: Hang on, hang on!
Mad Hatter: This is terrible!
Doormouse: Cat cat cat cat!
Mad Hatter: Help! Help!
King: Catch him! Stand in!
March Hare: Catch him! Catch him! Go for it!
Mad Hatter: Help him! Catch him! Give me the jam, the jam!
King: The jam! The jam! By order of the king!
Mad Hatter: The jam!
Queen: Let me have it! Somebody’s head is going to roll for this! A-ha!
Alice: The mushroom!
Queen: Off with her hhmpf!
Alice: Oh, pooh. I’m not afraid of you! Why, you’re nothing but a
pack of cards!
Cards: Huh?
King: Rule forty-two: all persons more than a mile high must leave the court
immediately.
Alice: I’m not a mile high. And I’m not leaving.
Queen: Hehehe sorry! Rule forty-two, you know.
Alice: And as for you, your majesty! Your majesty indeed! Why, you’re not
a queen, but just a fat, pompous, bad tempered old ty- tyrant
Queen: Hmhmhmhm and uh what were you saying, my dear?
Cheshire Cat: Well, she simply said that you’re a fat, pompous, bad
tempered old tyrant, hahahaha!
Queen: Off with her head!
King: You heard what her majesty said!Off with her head!
All: Forward, backward, inward, outward, here we go again! No one ever looses
and no one can ever win. Backward, forward, outward, inward, bottom to the top,
there’s
Queen: Off with her head! Off with her head!
March Hare: Just a moment! You can’t leave a tea party without having a
cup of tea, you know!
Alice: But- but I can’t stop now!
March Hare: Ah, but we insist! You must join us in a cup of tea!
Queen: Off with her head!
Alice: Mister Caterpillar! What will I do?
Caterpillar: Who are you?
Alice: Cough-cough! Cough-cough!
Queen: There she goes! Don’t let her get away! Off with her head!
Doorknob: Awww! Still locked, you know.
Alice: But the Queen! I simply must get out!
Doorknob: Oh, but you are outside.
Alice: What?
Doorknob: See for yourself!
Alice: Why, why that’s me! I’m asleep!
Queen: Don’t let her get away! Off with her head!
Alice: Alice, wake up! Please wake up, Alice! Alice! Please wake up, Alice! Alice!
Alice! Alice!
Sister: Alice! Alice! Will you kindly pay attention and recite your lesson?
Alice: Huh? Oh. Oh! Uh how doth the little crocodile, improve his shining
tail. And pour the waters of the
Sister: Alice, what are you talking about?
Alice: Oh, I’m sorry, but you see, the Caterpillar said
Sister: Caterpillar? Oh, for goodness sake. Alice, I Oh, well. Come along,
it’s time for tea.