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It’s A Boy! A Circus Opera

 

 

A music medley featuring 8 tracks from the soundtrack CD.

 

 

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Running time: 6 minutes, 49 seconds

 

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From the Fresh Fruit Records soundtrack CD It's A Boy! A Circus Opera.

Produced and Arranged by Ron Romanovsky, RomanovskyandPhillips.com

Executive Producer: Betty Katz Sperlich, Nurses for the Rights of the Child.

 

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

 

 

Full 16 song CD available for purchase at:

CD Baby

RomanovskyandPhillips.com

 

It's A Boy! A Circus Opera! is a collection of hilarious and poignant songs and music which tells the story of one couple's emotional struggle over whether or not to circumcise their newborn son. Recorded live at the Santa Fe Playhouse, Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 20, 2005.

 

Featured CD tracks and song lyrics

The "It's A Boy! A Circus Opera" music medley features clips from these 8 CD tracks:

 

Track 1: Circus Theme

 

Instrumental

 

Track 5: Perfectly You

MOM:

    

 

Your sweet sweet lips, your perfect nose

Your rosy cheeks, your ten little toes

Your precious little pee-pee, your wondrous eyes

Your tender bottom, your pink chubby thighs

 

DAD:

We've waited so long for you to come

I'm your dad

 

MOM:

And I am your mom

 

BOTH:

And we can see, it's perfectly true

You're perfectly, perfectly you

La la la la ...

 

MOM:

You've got daddy's dimple

 

DAD:

You've got mamma's smile

 

BOTH:

We've been praying for you all this while

And now it's clear we both can see

You're perfect as perfect can be

You're perfectly, perfectly you

 

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

 

 

Track 6: Cleaner Wiener

DOCTOR:

  

Yes! It's a cleaner wiener

Circumcision, no decision

It's protection from infection

Infatuation, masturbation

AIDS, cancer, syphilis

Insanity and bedwetting

 

Well the parents, they are asking

I am merely multi-tasking

It's a service I'm performing

Hygienic, aesthetic, prophylactic and conforming

 

Don't worry

It's a simple procedure

We'll hurry

It won't hurt him for long

Trust me

I'm the authority

And anyway, at three-fifty a pop

How can I stop?

 

Gonna snip it

Gonna clip it

Gonna shred it

Gonna edit

Gonna tame it

Gonna shame it

Gonna male him a cleaner wiener

Gonna make a cleaner wiener!

 

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

 

 

Track 9: Can't Get Over It

2nd YOUNG MAN:

  

I've been robbed, I've been knifed

I've been altered, changed for life

 

Part of me gone for good

Cheated out of my manhood

 

I had no say, I had no voice

You had no right to make that choice

 

A razor blade to my flesh

Amputation of the sex

 

And I can't, no I can't get over it

No, no, no I can't get over it

 

One who rapes, he does time

My butcher's well paid for his crime

Why didn't you hear me scream?

Did you pretend it was just a dream?

 

And I can't, no, I can't get over it

No, no, no I can't get over it

 

One day old, a helpless baby

You let a sadist mutilate me

You should have been the ones to save me

Mom and Dad, you betrayed me

No, no I can't get over it

 

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.  

 

 

Track 11: If Only

MOM:

  

If only my arms could hold you

If only I could enfold you

If only I could protect you

My baby boy

 

If only I could embrace you

If only they wouldn't deface you

If only I could defend you

My darling boy

 

But it's not my thing

It's a guy thing

So I'll let you go

  

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

 

 

Track 13: Just A Nurse

DOCTOR:

You're just a nurse

On shaky ground

Asking for trouble and

Overstepping your bounds

 

Only a nurse

Way out of line

Scaring the parents and

Causing mothers to cry

 

You'd best be careful

Just wait and see

You don't want to tango

With the likes of me

 

So watch out young lady

Or I'll see to it

You will be fired

I guarantee it!

NURSE:

I won't be silenced

Not one more time

Won't be complicit

While you're committing a crime

 

I'm not afraid

Cause I can see

One day soon history

Will have sided with me

 

You're the one scaring

So give me a break!

You're selling fear

And your reasons are fake

 

So don't threaten me

You hypocrite

You're drunk on power

You revel in it!

 

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

 

 

Track 14: What If

DAD:

 

What if circumcision isn't such a good decision?

What if all the reasons given are untrue or

simply lame?

 

MOM:

 

What if there's nothing to it and it's better

just to do it?

Go ahead and put him through it while he

cannot feel the pain

 

DAD:

 

What if?

 

MOM:

 

What if?

 

DAD:

 

What if we don't have him done?

 

MOM:

 

And what if he's the only one?

 

BOTH:

 

And does it matter if a son is different than his dad?

 

DAD:

 

What if has a brother?

 

MOM:

 

Is rejected by a lover?

 

BOTH:

 

As his father and his mother would we feel

that we've been had?

 

DAD:

 

What if, what if?

 

MOM:

 

What if, what if?

 

BOTH:

 

What if they cut off that part and make a

slip and pierce his heart?

And then what if the bleeding starts and

doesn't ever stop?

What if he won't stop crying and what if the

doctor's lying?

Has he talked us into buying something that

we didn't want?

 

DAD:

 

What if, what if, what if...what if, what if...

what if what!?

 

MOM:

 

What if, what if, what if...what if, what if...

what if what!?

 

 

Copyright © 2006 Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich.

Published by Bodacious Music (ASCAP).

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

 

 

Track 16: Reprise

 

Instrumental

 

 

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