David Lindsay-Abaire & Jeanine Tesori
Freak Flag
[GINGY]
Listen up, puppet!
We spend our whole lives wishing
We weren't so freakin' strange
They made us feel that way
But it's they who need to change

[PAPA BEAR, spoken]
The way they think, that is

[GINGY]
It's time to stop the hiding
It's time to stand up tall
Say "Hey world, I'm different, and here I am splinters and all!
Splinters and all! Hoo, hoo, hoo!"

[MAMA BEAR]
Let your freak flag wave
Let your freak flag fly
Never take it down, never take it down
Raise it way up high! Yeah! Let your freak flag fly!
Let it fly, fly, fly!

[PINOCCHIO]
It's hard to be a puppet
[MEN, spoken]
Little puppet boy

[PINOCCHIO]
So many strings attached

[MEN, spoken]
Can't cut loose

[HUMPTY DUMPTY]
But it's not a choice you make

[MEN, spoken]
No, no!

[HUMPTY DUMPTY]
It's just how you were hatched!

[ALL]
Let your freak flag wave
Let your freak flag fly
Never take it down, never take it down
Raise it way up high!
Let your freak flag fly!

[THREE LITTLE PIGS]
I'm proud to be a piggy
[ALL]
Little pig, little pig

[PAPA BEAR]
I raise my furry fist

[ALL]
Papa Bear, Papa Bear

[SHOEMAKER'S ELF]
It's time a tell the world I'm a Scientologist!

[ALL]
Scientologist!

[WICKED WITCH]
I did some time in jail

[All]
Yeah, yeah!

[GARDEN GNOME]
I smell like sauerkraut

[ALL]
Whoo!
[BIG BAD WOLF]
I'm gonna shed my house coat

[ALL]
Go, Miss Thing, you work it out!

[ALL]
Let your freak flag wave
Let your freak flag fly
Never take it down, never take it down
Raise it way up high!

[PINOCCHIO, spoken]
Yes! It all makes sense now! We may be freaks, but we're freaks with teeth and claws and magic wands! And together, we can stand up to Farquaad!

(sung)
Never take it down
Raise it way up high!

[MEN]
Raise it up way high

[ALL]
Raise it up way high!

[HUMPTY DUMPTY]
We've got magic (Ooo)
We've got power
Who are they
To say we're wrong?
All the things that make us special
(Let's sing!)
Are the things that make us strong!
What makes us special

[PINOCCHIO]
What makes us special

[ALL]
What makes us special
Makes us strong!
Let your freak flag wave!
Let your freak flag fly!
Never take it down, never take it down
Raise it way up high!
Yeah, let your freak flag fly!
Fly!
Fly!
Fly!
Fly!

[PINOCCHIO, spoken]
I'm wood! I'm good! Get used to it!

[ALL]
Fly!