Original Cast - What Are the Odds? lyrics

Susan: 4.57 billion years ago A tiny speck appears out in space In the black sits a quietly spinning sphere Where something wack is about to take place Heidi: What are the odds That this planet would be the perfect distance from the sun? What are the odds Scientists say, they're about an octillion to one The first amino acid sits alone in a puddle Feeling lonely and somewhat incomplete And when he least expects it, he suddenly finds himself Metabolizing from the heat Jeff + Hunter: And then to his surprise He suddenly multiplies And every millisecond, He celebrates a new birth All: And soon he makes his way Through all of the oceans He's a part of every plant and dinosaur on the earth Whoa, (spoken) dinosaur Oh, that amino acid is the key that will open the door What are the odds That all this prehistoric fauna gets to have so much fun? What are the odds? Wikipedia says a quinticilliontrillion to one Heidi: A stegosaurus roams around the planet's first chapter Finding pretty flowers to munch Susan: Then a little baby, super cute velociraptor Will grow up to eat the steggy for lunch Jeff: Unbeknownst to all the planet earth's beautiful creatures Something horrible is closing in All: A giant-a** rock crashes into Earth And though it brings the end to an era A new and bizarre one is about to begin Hunter: Hermit crabs and baby turtles Start crawling 'round everywhere And before we know, there are lots of spunky monkeys That are swinging through the jungle air Jeff: The bumblebees start zooming around With the beetles and the dragonflies And then the lizards get together And invent the feather To become the birds in the skies Susan + Heidi: And then the turtles and the monkeys and the beetles and the birds Dominate the biosphere mix All: And soon The Turtles and The Monkees and The Beatles and The Birds Dominate the Billboard Hot 100 Charts in 1966 Hunter: Years whiz by, like, forty milla-skion The earth is running rampant with the human being All: And what are the odds that one girl and one guy Would find one another and unify? Jeff + Hunter: A boy drives a Hot Rod and lives in Escondido He turns 20 and he's ready to roam Susan + Heidi: A girl watches Mod Squad alone in Toledo She, too, gets a hankering All: That it's time to leave home Jeff + Hunter: So she leaves Ohio Susan + Heidi: And he leaves Cali All: They head East to their new domains They meet one night at a bowling alley It's love at first sight at Fantasy Lanes Then one night something happens to them After sharing a malt and french fries This man and this woman get up on each other Something starts to grow And nine months later, something new enters this world And it opens its eyes What are the odds That we would get this world and mix up like a cinnamon bun? What are the odds That we would get through Mussolini and Attila the Hun? What are the odds That we would make it through Andrew Dice Clay and Nora Dunn? What are the odds? Probably about an "anjillion" gazillion to one An "anjillion" gazillion to one Ann Jillian