[BENITO, spoken]
Come on!

[COLUMBUS, spoken]
What's the meaning of this?

[BENITO]
This is a mutiny!

[COLUMBUS]
A what?

[BENITO & SAILORS]
A mutiny!

[BENITO]
A nautical rebellion
A wash-out that is tidal
Where you give way without delay
Unless you're suicidal

[COLUMBUS]
But why, by all the saints?
What are your complaints?

[BENITO]
We offer for your mental scrutiny
The reasons for the mutiny
Your believing that the world is round
Is a belief that we believe unsound
Our feet are on the ground
And so far we have found
The world is flat!
Like that!

[BENITO & SAILORS]
Like that! Like that! Like that!

[BENITO]
You believe that we believe you know
There is a land to land on where we go
There's no land westward ho
But you believe it, so
We believe that you should be below
Below

[BENITO & SAILORS]
Below, below

[COOK]
On me the men are venting all their passions
They're tired of eating biscuit and K-rations

[BENITO]
Yes, Commodore, their stomachs are in an ugly mood
On top of getting nowhere, they're fed up with their food
[SAILORS]
On top of getting nowhere we are fed up with the food

[BENITO & SAILORS]
Day and night we brood

[BENITO]
Fed up with the food

Every night we are in tears
When we think of macaroni
And it seems like forty years
Since we tasted minestrone
Long to drink again the vino
With the wife and bambino
So we're going to force
You to change the course
And we sail the foam
Back home!

[BENITO & SAILORS]
If I'm in tears (Every night we are in tears)
It seems like years (When we think of macaroni)
Since I have known the art (And it seems like forty years)
Of eating a la carte (Since we've tasted minestrone)
I miss my bambino (Oh, to drink again the vino)
My vino, and sole mio (With the wife and bambino)
And the sextet from Lucia
[SAILORS]
So we're going to force
You to change the course
And we sail the foam

[BENITO & SAILORS]
Back home!

[SAILORS, spoken, applauding]
Encore. Bravissimo! Encore. Bravissimo!

[COLUMBUS, spoken]
I'll bravissimo you!
You fools!
You sons of sea dogs!
You bilge-watery barnacles!
Have you no honor?
Is nothing sacred to you?

(sung)
Have you no loyalty to royalty?

[SAILORS]
Loyalty to royalty?
What do you mean?

[COLUMBUS]
I mean the Queen
The lovely Isabella

[SAILORS]
Isabella!
What about Queen Isabella?

[COLUMBUS]
Don't you know that sailing west meant
A terrifically expensive investment?
And who do you suppose supplied the means
But Isabella, queen of queens?

[SAILORS]
The queen of queens supplied the means

[COLUMBUS]
Isabella volunteering
Hocked her every bracelet and earring
And if this journey adjourns
We return with no returns
Isabella, queen of queens
Will be without any means
Isabella will be flat
Like that!

[SAILORS]
Like that!

[COLUMBUS & SAILORS]
Like that!

[SAILORS]
Who'd have thought that sailing west meant
A terrifically expensive investment?

[SAILORS & COLUMBUS]
And who do you suppose
Supplied the means (Who do you suppose supplied the means)
But Isabella
Queen of queens? (But Isabella, queen of queens?)

[BENITO, spoken]
Enough! Enough!
Have you forgotten your vino?
Your wife and bambino?
Your sole mio?

(sung)
And the sextet from Lucia?

[SAILORS]
Right!

[BENITO]
Are we mice or men?
Lock him up and then
We can sail the foam
Back home!

[SAILORS]
That is good advice
Are we men or mice?
Let us have no more
Of the commodore
And we sail the foam
Back home

[BENITO]
Your believing that the world is round
Is a belief that we believe unsound
And so we're sailing east
And you are full of yeast
The world is flat

[COLUMBUS]
It's round!

[BENITO]
It's flat!

[COLUMBUS]
It's round!

[BENITO]
Flat!

[COLUMBUS]
Round!

[BENITO]
Flat!

[COLUMBUS & BILL]
Round! Stop!