[SOLO]
If you're bent on viewing
Something doing
Come to Florence!
Where is life more active
And attractive
Than in Florence?
Where are people singing
At a swinging
But in Florence?

[ALL]
Everything warrants
Our singing of Florence
So, Florence, we're singing of you
Everything warrants
Our singing of Florence
So, Florence, we're singing of you

[SOLO]
There's artistic treasure
None can measure
Here in Florence
Great is every statue
Looking at you
Here in Florence
And we've gotta lotta
Terracotta
Here in Florence
[ALL]
Praises in torrents
We shower on Florence
Oh, Florence, you always come through!

[WOMEN]
In all of Italy
No brighter star
We're singing prettily
Right where we are

[MEN]
Don't mention Napoli
Venice or Rome
Florence sings happily:
No place like home!

[SOLO]
If you're spending ducats
By the buckets
You're in Florence
All the girls are busty
Life is lusty
Here in Florence
And did you know that Dante
And Chianti
Came from Florence?
[ALL]
Everything warrants
Our singing of Florence
So, Florence, we're singing of you
Everything warrants
Our singing of Florence
So, Florence, we're singing of you

[Short dance follows. It is interrupted by the sound of muffled drum.]

[ALL]
Hear the drum, hear the drum
Beating out his fate
Here they come! Here they come!

[HANGMAN]
I can hardly wait

[ALL]
Hear the drum!
Here they come!

[MAFFIO]
At this point no angel or devil or genie
Can possibly save the neck of Cellini
[ALL]
Here they come! Time to yell
Hail, Cellini and farewell!

[APPRENTICES, MODELS, a LAWYER, and CELLINI march on.]

[APPRENTICES]
Our master
Has met disaster
Our sculptor will sculp no more
But high up
He'll find a tie-up
Redesigning heaven's golden door

[ALL]
He will make completer
The portals of Saint Peter

[MODELS]
The models of Florence
Disciples of grace
All view with abhorrence
What's now taking place

[ALL]
Oh, models of Florence
Your master is through
Your tears fall in torrents
But what can you do?
The fatal bell has rung
The trap will soon be sprung!

[MAGISTRATE, spoken]
Benvenuto Cellini, have you a final say to say? We allow three minutes. 

[MAGISTRATE takes out a sand clock and starts it afresh.]