Once On This Island - We Dance lyrics

WOMAN Asaka, grow me a garden MAN Please Agwe, don't flood my garden TWO YOUNG WOMEN Erzulie, who will my love be? ALL Papa Ge don't come around me WOMAN(spoken) Ah, such powerful, such temperamental gods Rule our island ASAKA Asaka, Mother of the Earth AGWE Agwe, God of Water ERZULIE Erzulie, beautiful Goddess of Love PAPA GE And Papa Ge, sly Demon of d**h WOMEN Asaka, grow me a garden MEN Please Agwe, don't flood my garden WOMEN Erzulie, who will my love be? ALL Papa Ge don't come around me Please Agwe don't flood my garden Asaka grow me a garden... WOMEN MEN We dance We dance ALL To the music of the gods The music of the breezes through The green plaintain The murmur of the river and The roar of rain And if the Gods decide to Send a hurricane WOMEN We dance... MEN We dance ALL To their everchanging moods WOMAN(ASAKA) We know the gods are happy When the green things grow MAN(AGWE) They're angry when the river Starts to overflow ALL And since we never know Which way the winds will blow... ALL We dance to the earth We dance to the water The Gods awake and we take no chance Our hearts hear the song Our feet move along And to the music of the Gods We dance! ANDREA(spoken) On the other side of the island, safe behind High walls and iron gates, the grands hommes Dance to a different tune ALL La la la la la la la DANIEL The drink champagne. Entertain tourists at Their fine hotels. And tell their servants "Polish up the Mercedes!" ALL La la la la la la la

MAN Two different worlds Never meant to meet MAN The peasants labor WOMAN The grands hommes... eat! ANDREA AND DANIEL ALL OTHERS How fine Our clothes are! We dance How fast We drive! We dance We dance at parties... ALL While we are dancing Just to stay alive... WOMEN MEN We dance We dance ALL What else is there to do? MAN But plant the seed And pull the weed And chop the cane TWO WOMEN And bear the child And bear the load And bear the pain THREE WOMEN, TWO MEN ANd as the rich go racing To their own refrain ALL We dance to the earth We dance to the water The Gods awake and we take no chance Our hearts hear the song Our feet move along And to the music of the Gods We dance to the earth We dance to the water The Gods awake and we take No chance... PAPA GE ALL OTHERS Two different Worlds. Ooh la Never meant To meet. Ooh la But if the gods move Our feet... ALL We dance! We dance! We dance! MAN(spoken) Once on this island, there was a terrible Storm! MAN Many huts washed away! Many peasants Drowned by Agwe's angry waters! WOMAN But one small girl Caught his attention LITTLE TI MOUNE Aaaahh! MAN(Agwe) And she was spared. An orphan, plucked From the flood by Agwe WOMAN(Asaka) Sheltered in a tree by Asaka WOMAN(Erzulie) And sent on a journey by the gods. A journey That would test the strength of love... MAN(Papa Ge) Against the power of d**h... MAN, WOMAN(Erzulie, Papa Ge) On this island of two different worlds! ALL The story of Ti Moune!