[STORYTELLER (MAN 2)] (spoken)
The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes.

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)]
A history lesson!

[STORYTELLERS (MEN) (except DANIEL)] (sung)
SOME...
SAY...
SOME...
SAY...

[STORYTELLERS (Women)]
SOME...
SAY...
SOME...
SAY...

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1)] (spoken)
Four generations past,
In the time of Napoleon.
There came to this island,
A Frenchman, Armand.

[ALL (except ARMAND, DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
ARMAND!
ARMAND!
[STORYTELLER (MAN 1)] (spoken)
And he built a great fortune,
And he built a grand mansion.
And he wed a fine lady,
So pale and so blonde.

[MADAME ARMAND (WOMAN 1)] (sung)
ARMAND!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)] (spoken)
But Armand took his pleasure,
With the women who served him:
Black peasant girls from,
The village beyond.

[PEASANT GIRLS (WOMAN 1, & ANDREA)] (sung)
ARMAND!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)] (spokеn)
And the loveliest onе,
Bore the Frenchman a son.
Such a fine peasant son—

[ARMAND] (sung)
FOR ARMAND!
[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)] (spoken)
A beautiful child,
The pale color of coffee mixed with cream.

[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
THE BEAUTIFUL ONE
THE BEAUTIFUL SON
BEAUXHOMME

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1)] (spoken)
They named him:

[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
BEAUXHOMME

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1)] (spoken)
Beauxhomme.

[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
THE BEAUTIFUL ONE
THE BEAUTIFUL SON
BEAUXHOMME

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1)] (spoken)
And the boy grew to be a man,
And the great war began.
[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
BLACKS FOUGHT AGAINST FRENCH,
AND THE HATED NAPOLEON.
THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR ISLAND,
AND FINALLY WON.

[STORYTELLERS (MEN) (except DANIEL)]
WE WON!

[BEAUXHOMME (MAN 2), & STORYTELLER (MAN 1)]
WE WON!

[STORYTELLER (MAN 1)] (spoken)
And Armand sailed for France,

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)]
By the seat of his pants...

[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
...DRIVEN OUT
BY HIS BEAUTIFUL SON!

THE BEAUTIFUL ONE!
THE BEAUTIFUL SON!
BEAUXHOMME, BEAUXHOMME
THE BEAUTIFUL ONE!

[BEAUXHOMME (MAN 2), & DANIEL BEAUXHOMME]
WHAT WAS HIS IS NOW MINE!

[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)]
THE BEAUTIFUL SON!
BEAUXHOMME!

[STORYTELLER (WOMAN 2)] (spoken)
But Armand left behind a terrible, terrible curse.

[ALL (except ARMAND, DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
I CURSE MY SON

[ARMAND] (spoken)
I curse my only son!

[ALL (except ARMAND, DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
I CURSE HIS SONS

[ARMAND] (spoken)
All of his sons!

[ALL (except ARMAND, DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
GENERATIONS—

[ARMAND] (spoken)
All Beauxhommes yet unborn!

[ALL (except ARMAND, DANIEL, & TI MOUNE)] (sung)
IN ADVANCE

[ARMAND] (spoken)
Your black blood will keep you forever on this island... while your hearts yearn forever for France!

[ALL (except DANIEL, & TI MOUNE] (sung)
THE UNLUCKY ONE
THE UNLUCKY SON
BEAUHXOMME. BEAUXHOMME

FROM BAD BLOOD TO WORSE
THE NAME OF THE CURSE:
BEAUXHOMME

THEY DESPISE US FOR OUR BLACKNESS
IT REMINDS THEM WHERE THEY'RE FROM
THE SAD, SAD TALE
OF THE BEAUXHOMMES! BEAUXHOMME!

(ALL spit.)