The Hunchback

The musical play, "The Hunchback" has been famous for long. I watched it once when I was in my second year of junior high. I like not only the story but also the music and the lyrics. There are always historial comments in the lyrics, which is very touching.


Below is the lyrics of one part, "Notre Dame De Paris act 2 song 1 Florence". The original edition was sung in French, the language in France, in which the story is taken place. But I translated it into English. (Actually, I can not read French. I whatched the Chinese translation and then translated it into Engligh.)


The song was sung by the archbishop and the poet.


p.s. I will write another paragragh or two to introduce the story, even the music later when I have time.




Notre Dame De Paris act2 song 1 Florence


archbishop: Tell me about Florence


And the renaissance


Tell me about Bramate


And the Hell of Dante


poet: In Florence they say


The world is round


And there may be other lands


In this world


Ships are sailing the oceans now


In search of the passage to India


archbishop: Luther will write the New Testament


And we're at the dawn of a divided world


poet: A certain Gutemberg


Has changed the face of the Earth


archbishop: With the presses in Nuremberg


That every second print


poet: Poems on paper


Speeches and tracts


together: Revolutionary ideas


That sweep everything else aside


poet: Small things outnumber big things


Thus literature will be the demise of architecture


archbishop: Schoolbooks will extinguish cathedrals


The Bible will destroy the church and men will kill God


This will destroy that


together: Ships are sailing the oceans now


In search of the passage to India


Luther will rewrite the New Testament


And we're at the dawn of a divided world


This will destroy that


This will destroy that