[STUYVESANT, spoken]
We now enter upon a new era, a future of universal happiness and abundance!

(sung)
One touch of alchemy
Transmutes our age to gold
Would you be rich and free?
Then do as you are told

[ENSEMBLE]
This modern alchemy
Transmutes our age to gold
The man who would be free
Must do as he is told

[STUYVESANT]
No man shall want for food
Nor ditto any wife
All hail the bright, the good
The regimented life!

[ENSEMBLE]
No man shall want for food
Nor ditto any wife
All hail the bright, the good
The regimented life!
[STUYVESANT]
The honeymoon of time
I augur and proclaim
Thе apex of our climb
For burgher and for dame

[ENSEMBLE]
Thе honeymoon of time
He augurs and proclaims
The apex of our climb
For burghers and for dames

[STUYVESANT]
All hail the political honeymoon
Sing the news to hoi polloi
Of each individual man his boon
In an age of strength through joy!

[ENSEMBLE]
All hail the political honeymoon
Sing the news to hoi polloi
Of each individual man his boon
In an age of strength through joy!