[JOSEPH]
A service was held
The next Sunday at nine
On a mild yet overcast day

[GEORGETTE]
Three neighbors were there

[GINA & GEORGETTE]
Plus a cousin from ten miles away

[BLIND BEGGAR, GINA, JOSEPH, HIPOLITO & GEORGETTE]
And with her father taking the urn in his hand

[BLIND BEGGAR & GEORGETTE]
And a glass of wine all to herself

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, o-o-o-oh

[AMÉLIE]
Mama was interred on the shelf

[Raphael is placing the urn with the ashes next to a Garden Gnome outside in the garden.]

[AMÉLIE as YOUNG AMÉLIE, spoken]
Salut Papa, what’s that?

[RAPHAEL, spoken]
A mausoleum for your Maman’s ashes

[AMÉLIE as YOUNG AMÉLIE, spoken]
A gnome?

[RAPHAEL, spoken]
Maman hated it, so I will always think of her when I see it
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh oh oh oooh
Eleven years later and all that she knew
Was that times for dreamers were hard
With papa growing distant
And a garden gnome keeping guard
And so she packed up her baggage
And all of her bags
And some cash she had saved in a drawer
And oh oh oh oh oh oh

[RAPHAEL]
She carried it straight out the door

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh oh oh oh o-oh

[AMÉLIE, spoken]
Au revoir, Papa!

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh oh oh oh o-oh
Oh oh oh oh o-oh
Oh oh oh oh o-oho-oh
Everyone is falling as the fly comes into view
And everyone’s connected
Though they may not know it’s true
They form a trail of breadcrumbs
But what are they leading to?