[TOWNSMEN]
Hurry, hurry
Spill the fish into the dock!

{TOWNSWOMEN]
Raise the maypole
Up at the chapel of Braque!

{ALL]
Hurry, hurry
Gather the choirs
And light the bonfires
And sit on the roofs!
Hurry, hurry
It's nearly twelve of the clock


Come one, come all!
Leave the looms and milking stools
Coop the hens and pen the mules
Come one, come all!
Close the churches and the schools
It's the day for breaking rules
Now we join the feast of

[CLOPIN]
Fools!!!

[CLOPIN and COMPANY]
Once a year
We throw a party here in town
Once a year
We turn all Paris upside down
Every man's
A king and every king's a clown
Once again
It's Topsy-Turvy Day

It's the day
The devil in us gets released
It's the day
We mock the prig and shock that priest
Every thing
Is topsy-turvy at the feast of fools

Topsy-Turvy!
Beat the drums and blow the trumpets
Topsy-Turvy!
Join the bums and thieves and strumpets
Streaming in from Chartres to Calais

[CLOPIN]
Scurvy knaves are extra-scurvy
On the sixth of "Januervy"..
[CLOPIN and COMPANY]
..all because it's Topsy-Turvy Day


[QUASIMODO]
Out there with all the colors
And the noises and the smells
Brighter, louder than my dreams provide me
And tomorrow, when I’m back there
Watching from the bells
I will always have this day inside me

(dance break)

{CROWD]
Topsy-Turvy!


{CLOPIN/CROWD]
Come one, come all!

{CLOPIN]
Hurry, hurry, here's your chance!
See the mystery and romance!

{CLOPIN/CROWD]
Come one, come all!
{CLOPIN]
See the finest girl in France
Make an entrance to entrance
Dance, La Esmeralda, dance!

(dance break)

[FROLLO]
(spoken)
Look at that disgusting display

[PHOEBUS]
(spoken)
Yes, sir!


{CLOPIN]
(spoken)
Here it is, le piece de resistance!

{CLOPIN/CROWD]
Here it is
The moment you've been waiting for
Here it is
You know exactly what's in store
Now's the time
We laugh until our sides get sore
Now's the time-

{CLOPIN]
-we crown the King of Fools!

(spoken)
You all remember last year's king?

{CLOPIN/CROWD]
So make a face
That's horrible and frightening
Make a face
That's gruesome as a gargoyle's wing

{CLOPIN]
For the face
That's ugliest will be the King of Fools
Why?

{CROWD]
Topsy-Turvy!

{CLOPIN]
Ugly folks, forget your shyness!

{CROWD]
Topsy-Turvy!

{CLOPIN]
You could soon be called Your Highness!
Put your foulest features on display

{CLOPIN/CROWD]
Be the king of Topsy-Turvy Day

{ESMERALDA]
(spoken)
Come on, you didn't go to all that trouble making that mask for nothing! You get five sous if you win!

{CLOPIN/CROWD]
Topsy-Turvy!
Topsy-Turvy!
Topsy-Turvy!

{CLOPIN]
(spoken)
Ladies and gentlemen, we asked for the ugliest face in Paris, and here he is!

Ev-ery-bo-dy!

{CROWD(CLOPIN)]
Once a year
We throw a party here in town. (Hail to the king!)
Once a year
We turn all Paris upside down. (Oh, what a king!)
Once a year
The ugliest will wear a crown (Girls, give a kiss!)
Once a year
In Topsy-Turvy Day (We never had a king like this and-)

[CLOPIN/CROWD]
It's the day
We do the things that we deplore
For the other
Three-hundred-and-sixty-four
Once a year
We love to drop in
Where the beer
Is never stoppin'
For a chance
To pop some popinjay
And pick a king
Who put the top in
Topsy-Turvy Day!
Topsy-Turvy
Mad and crazy, upsy-daisy
Topsy-Turvy Day!