Lullaby, twilight is spreading
Silver wings over the sky;
Fairy elves are softly treading,
Folding buds as they pass by.
Lullaby, whisper and sigh,
Lullaby, lullaby.

Lullaby, deep in the clover
Drone the bees softly to rest;
Close white lids your dear eyes over,
Mother’s arms shall be your rest.
Lullaby, whisper and sigh,
Lullaby, lullaby.

Voice #1: I heard a bark. Go out and see what it is.

Voice #2: A bark?

Voice #1: Go on and see.

Voice #2: Okay, but it’s awfully dark out here.

(There might be a line here I don’t recall. We see the light from a flashlight shining around. Suddenly, the sound of knocking into something is heard.)

Voice #1: What happened? I heard a bump.

Voice #2: Oh, it’s just me. I tripped over that broken chair.

Voice #1: An old broken chair? Can’t you take that to the dump?

Voice #2: Not in the dark, I can’t. Now leave me alone! (Pause. Light shines around.) Sure is dark out here … (Pause.) Wait a minute? Did you hear a little, tiny bark?

Voice #1: No, I didn’t hear a bark.

Voice #2: Well, I was sure I heard a …

Voice #3: Bark!

Voices #1 and #2: YEEEOOOWWW!

(Light shines on the owner of the third voice –a spotted brown puppy.)

Puppy: Can you give me directions to the park? Rrruff!

[Jay-Z]
This here’s a ballad for all the fallen soldiers
I’ma bout ‘ta show you how a hustlers life (this is life man)
and a soldier’s life, parallel
And the one thing they got in common is pain (forget about me for a second)
Picture split screen
On one side we got a hustler getting ready for the block (human beings)
Other side you got the soldier getting ready for bootcamp (soldiers)
They’re both at war (this is life)
Stay with us

[Chorus]
Did you ever notice, before you think, life goes fast
So don’t you worry, about what you see, it will pass

[Verse 1]
You lost him mama, the wars calling him
Feel its his duty to fall in line with all of them
He’s a soldier
Rose through the ranks as the head of your house hold
Now its time to provide bank
Like he’s supposed tah
Now just remember while he’s going to November
Theres part of him growing up
His shirts soaks up your tears as he holds yah
Your heart beatin so fast speeding his pulse up
Yeah i know it sucks, Life aint a rose bud
A couple of speed bumps
You gotta take your lumps
Off to Bootcamp, the worlds facing terror
Bin Laden been happenin in Manhatten
Crack was anthrax back then, back when
Police was Al’Qaeda to black men
While I was out there hustling sinning with no religion
He was off the wall killing for a living

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
Days turn to nights, nights turn to years
Years turn to “how the fuck we make it in here?”
My barracks average couple fights a day
Get you locked in a hole wont see the light of day
And I feel like I’m just writing my life away
I never thought shit could end up quite this way
There’s a war going on outside no man is safe from
I’m here for the good fight only the fakes run
I’m here for the purple heart, if I cant take one
For my team or my siblings whats my reason for living?
I love my niggas more then anything else
This war’s about my family, me needin the wealth
You dont understand how useless as men we felt
Till you become a 5 star general
Shout out to my niggas that’s locked in jail
P.O.W.’s thats still in the war for real

[Chorus]

Your baby boy is getting grown
So your baby boy is moving on
I’ve gotta chase (gotta chase it)
If I’m gonna make it (gonna make it)
Your baby boy is getting grown
So your baby boy is moving on
I’m gonna make it
Even if I gotta take it (gotta take it)

[Verse 3]
Mama said pray your sons becoming a man
This wars taxin to ’em like Uncle Sam
Hear the noise make the right choice, understand
Every choice that he make he makes it for his fam
It’s death before dishonour
And if hes gone you should honor his memory
Dont cry we all gonna die eventually
But if he’s locked in the penetentiary send him some energy
They all winners to me
(What’s up kid?)

[Chorus]

You left without saying I love you
And that makes three days in a row
Now that you’re tired of pretending
It’s time that I let you know

I don’t disagree with your feelings
We both need to find a new life
But this ain’t the way we should end it
It’s a bad way of saying goodbye

There must be a better way of sayin` it’s over
Where nobody walks away with tears in their eyes
When you stay ’til regret is all you have left
That’s a bad way of saying goodbye

When I think of you I’ll remember
How you looked at me when we met
But the way that you’re looking at me now
I’ll do my best to forget

It’s not your fault, but it’s not mine
We both made mistakes though we tried
So leaving without saying I’m sorry
Is a bad way of saying goodbye

There must be a better way of saying its over
Where nobody walks away with tears in their eyes
When you stay ’til regret is all you have left
That’s a bad way of saying goodbye

That’s a bad way of saying goodbye

Baby, you’re cool
And even though you’ve never been to school
I know you’re fine
but then you change your mind
Then you start on driftin’
and fall on behind

You’ve been my girl
You’ve been mine
all of the time

A bad night
its gonna be
A bad night
I guarantee
tonight I’ll have
A bad night
I know I shall

ah, ’cause you left me waiting in the corner
and i know you’re never gonna come back for me
and though you said you loved me
and said you needed all of my love
a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad night
its gonna be

A bad night
it’s gonna be
A bad night
I guarantee
tonight I’ll have
A bad night
I know I shall

Maybe if the weather was just a little better
it might not have happened that way
but the situation was gettin’ pretty bad, bad
A bad bad bad bad bad night it’s gonna be

A bad night
it’s gonna be
A bad night
I guarantee
tonight I’ll have
A bad night
I know I shall
I know I shall

I’ve been bound to leave you, we’ve known that for awhile
I’m sure it’s something I can’t do if I can’t leave you with a smile
I don’t know how far I’ll have to go ’til I’m sure those eyes won’t cry
And in my mind I’ve left enough to know that I can’t leave you
With a bad goodbye
Goodbye, easier said than done
Goodbye, there’s no good when you’re the one
Whose goodbye you swore would never come
And in my goodbye you’re finding none

I’m still bound to leave you, I surely don’t know how
My heart won’t let me put you through
What my mind says should happen now
I don’t know where we’ll go from here, there may be no way to fly
And the cloud I’m in just makes it all too clear that I can’t leave you
With a bad goodbye

Goodbye, easier said than done
Goodbye, there’s no good when you’re the one
Whose goodbye you swore would never come
And in my goodbye you’re finding none

How can we be so far between where we are and one more try
And any way I look, I’ve only seen that I can’t leave you
With a bad goodbye

The season is upon us now, a time for gifts and giving
And as the year draws to its close I think about my living
The Christmas time when I was young, the magic and the wonder
But colors dull and candles dim and dark my standing under

Oh, little angel, shining light, you’ve set my soul to dreaming
You’ve given back my joy in life
You filled me with new meaning

A savior King was born that day, a baby just like you
And as the Magi came with gifts, I come with my gift too
That peace on earth fills up your time
That brotherhood surrounds you,
That you may know the warmth of love
And wrap it all around you.

It’s just a wish, a dream I’m told from days when I was young,
Merry Christmas little Zachary Merry Christmas everyone
Merry Christmas little Zachary Merry Christmas everyone

well i know i shouldn’t care but i do and i don’t and i always crack a smile
when i see your punk rock clothes and you try try try but you never fit in and
you’re never going to so pack it up pack it in, so there. steve took three or
four heather took more. she lit a cigarette and they’re walking out the door
with a semi automatic and a ski mask on they look to one another and they say
to themselves “what fun”. well i never want to bother and i never want to
hover over his or her affairs because that’s not fair and it seems to me that
you’re running out of time and it seems to me like you’re never going to do
what’s right jack dropped 21, jill 22. the look in his eye said “brother what
are you going to do with a 9mm and a three piece suit?” they look to one
another and say “hey motherfucker, who’s the fool?”

[C-Murder]

How many of my TRU niggas actually get a second chance at life,
at their dreams? not many, huh

Started off as a street thug, just hangin’ and thuggin’
’89 went to jail for druggin’ and muggin’
poppin plea’s ain’t no fuckin’ way for me
porbation for 10 years don’t mean you’re free
I know my TRU motherfuckin’ niggas know how I feel
this shit’s real I wish my brother wouldn’t of got killed
for me to realize the game is wicked
shit can’t even trust the niggas that I used to hang with
huh, but I remember what my brother told me
I know a real bitch by the way she hold me
I love my TRU niggas like I love money
if you fuck with no limit you never find nothin’ funny
and I take it to the grave with me
if you shoot first bitch you better make sure you hit me
cuz I’m known for choppin’ keys on my mom’s table
I split a hundred G’s with my niggas Kane and Abel
fast money fast bitches is what I live for
until I caught a fuckin’ bullet in the back, bra
they thought I was dead but I’m still in it
I’m back to life back on top ain’t no limit

(Chorus)
Back to life (from the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (some youngsters on the streets tryin’ get paid)
from the cradle to the grave
just some youngsters on the streets tryin’ get paid
Back to life (from the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (some youngsters on the streets tryin’ get paid)

[Master P]

Tattoo hennessy and weed
grew up in the project with killers and G’s
the Last Don is known for slangin’ and bangin’
thug niggas 3rd ward Cali know where we hangin’
ghetto’s soliders mercenary we rhyme
this game is life or death and its your soul or mine
we don’t play no games boy just tryin’ get paid
hope I get rich before they dig my grave
so many penetentary chances feds and demons
so many homies in the ghetto with their soul in strim
in god we trust ain’t no man gone harm me
my best friend be my lady cuz these fools are fonies
take heed I been beyond and back
I live my life through the lord, my homey, the greed and the back
I said: (Ughhhhhhh)

(Chorus)
Back to life (from the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (some youngsters on the streets tryin’ get paid)
from the cradle to the grave
just some youngsters on the streets tryin’ get paid

[Silkk the Shocker]

you couldn’t tell me nutin’
a little ghetto child runnin’ wild
shed tears trough years made it hard to smile
imagine homies dieing while you’re standin’ right there
my reality’s your worst nightmare
and now I’m trapped in the whole fuckin’ world of sin
Kill or be killed hit down by the hands of his best friend
you gotta know if you wanna live there’s rules to this shit
you can’t break ’em if you wanna be rich
and when my homey died and didn’t come back
I knew it was on nigga stressed god blessed
got his name on a tombstone
some of my prayers go out to my homies that walked that path
I spray paint your name on the wall and I sit back and laugh
you gotta make decisions make ’em all with precision
try to make moves and avoid prison
I remember the first time I laughed at the penetentary steel
when the told me spread lift the car I knew it was real
now I was just out there tryin’ gain some strength
birds came to me one night told me Silkk you gotta change your life
but it was all or nothin’ could never settle for second
gotta make the whole world feel my presence (Ughhhhh)
i told my homey don’t cry if I close my eyes,
(but Silkk the Shocker you too young to die)

(Chorus)
Back to life (from the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (some younsters on the streets tryin’ get paid)
from the cradle to the grave
just some youngsters on the streets tryin’ get paid
Back to life (from

When Johnny Jones was serenading Mary,
He sure could quote a lot of poetry,
But he?d much rather tell her,
What he learned in his speller,
When they both attended PS 33!

A ~ You?re adorable . . .
B ~ You?re so beautiful . . .
C ~ You?re a cutie full of charms . . .
D ~ You?re a darling and . . .
E ~ You?re exciting . . .
F ~ You?re a feather in my arms . . .
G ~ You look good to me . . .
H ~ You?re so heavenly . . .
I ~ You?re the one I idolize . . .
J ~ We?re like Jack and Jill . . .
K ~ You?re so kiss-able . . .
L ~ Is the love-light in your eyes . . .
M, N, O, P . . .
You could go on all day . . .
Mmmmmmm!
Q, R, S, T . . .
Alphabetically speaking you?re OK!
U ~ Made my life complete . . .
V ~ Means you?re awfully sweet . . .
W, X, Y, Z . . .
It?s fun to wonder through,
The alphabet with you,
To tell . . . ( us what ? )
I mean . . . ( Uh Huh! )
To tell you what you mean to me!
( We love you alphabetically! )

Music and Lyrics by Sidney Lipman, Fred Wise
and Buddy Kaye, 1948