Leonard Bernstein
The Best of All Possible Worlds
[DR. PANGLOSS]
Let us review
Lesson eleven!
[CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, MAXIMILIAN & PAQUETTE]
Paragraph two
Axiom seven
[PANGLOSS]
Once one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this is
The best of all possible worlds
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Once one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this is
The best of all possible worlds
[PANGLOSS]
Pray classify
Pigeons and camels
[MAXIMILLIAN]
Pigeons can fly
[PAQUETTE]
Camels are mammals
[PANGLOSS]
There is a reason
For everything under the sun
[CANDIDE]
There is a season
For everything under the sun
[MAXIMILLIAN]
Objection!
What about snakes?
[PANGLOSS]
Snakes!
'Twas Snake that tempted mother Eve
Because of Snake we now believe
That though depraved
We can be saved
From hellfire and damnation
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Because of Snake's temptation!
[PANGLOSS]
If Snake had not seduced our lot
And primed us for salvation
Jehovah could not pardon all
The sins that we call cardinal
Involving bed and bottle
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Now onto Aristotle
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Mankind is one
All men are brothers
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As you'd have done
Do unto others
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It's understood in
This best of all possible worlds
[MAXIMILLIAN]
All's for the good in
This best of all possible worlds
[CANDIDE]
Objection!
What about war?
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War!
Though war may seem a bloody curse
It is a blessing in reverse
When cannon roar
Both rich and poor
By danger are united
[MAXIMILIAN]
'Til every wrong is righted
[PANGLOSS]
Philosophers make evident
The point that I have cited
'Tis war makes equal, as it were
The noble and the commoner
Thus war improves relations
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Now onto conjugations
[PANGLOSS]
Amo, amas
Amat, amamus
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Amo, amas
Amat, amamus
[PANGLOSS]
Proving that this is
The best of all possible worlds
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With love and kisses
The best of all possible worlds
[PANGLOSS]
Quod erat demonstrandum!
Q. E. D.
[MAXIMILLIAN]
Quod erat demunstrandum!
Q. E. D.
[CANDIDE]
Quod erat demunstrandum!
Q. E. D.
[PANGLOSS]
Amo, amas
Amat, amamus
[PAQUETTE]
Quod erat demunstrandum!
Q. E. D.
[MAXIMILLIAN]
Amo, amas
Amat, amamus
[CUNEGONDE]
Quod erat demunstrandum!
Q. E. D.
[CANDIDE]
Amo, amas
Q. E. D.
[PANGLOSS]
Quod erat demunstrandum!
[MAXIMILIAN & PAQUETTE]
Amo, amas
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Quod erat demonstrandum
In this best of all
Possible, possible, possible worlds!
Quod erat demonstrandum!
Q!
E!
D!