Stephen Schwartz - Generations lyrics

[MALE SOLOIST] Generation [STORYTELLERS] Generation [FEMALE SOLOIST] Generation [STORYTELLERS] Generation Generations of Adam [MALE SOLOIST] Son follow father, birth follow birth Spread the people all over the earth [FEMALE SOLOIST] Mamma tell daughter how boy follow girl Spread the people all over the wide wide world [STORYTELLERS] Generations Procreations All the nations Multiplications [SOLOISTS] Beget, Begat, Begot, Begotten [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [SOLOISTS] Helping with the cattle and the kettle and the cotton [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [FEMALE SOLOIST] Generation [STORYTELLERS] Generations Procreations Generations of Adam [MALE SOLOIST] Generation [STORYTELLERS] All the nations Multiplications Generations of Adam [MALE SOLOIST] Cain met a wife on the east side of Eden [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [FEMALE SOLOIST] They did a little lovin' Did a little breedin' [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [SOLOISTS] Enoch, Irad, and Mehujael Lamech come from Mister Methusael [STORYTELLERS] Sheep of Jabal Harp of Jubal Bra** and Iron from the children of Tubal-Cain Generations Multiplications [SOLOISTS] Mountain to valley, ocean to plain Beget, Begat, Begot, Begotten [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [SOLOISTS] Helping with the cattle and the kettle and the cotton [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [FEMALE SOLOIST] Generation [STORYTELLERS] Generations Procreations Generations of Adam [MALE SOLOIST] Generation [STORYTELLERS] All the nations Multiplications Generations of Adam [FEMALE SOLOIST] Seth to Enos, to Cainan [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [MALE SOLOIST] The shoulder of the son for the Father to lean on [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [SOLOISTS] Mahalaleel and Jared Follow in their shoes Another Enoch to bring us to Methuselah [STORYTELLERS] Generations Procreations [SOLOISTS] He lived nine hundred years or so A papa to Lamech Grandpapa to Noah [STORYTELLERS] Noah [SOLOISTS] Noah [STORYTELLERS] Noah Oh Noah You go-a All the way back to the protozoa [MALE SOLOIST] Beget, Begat, Begot, Begotten [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [FEMALE SOLOIST] Helping with the cattle and the kettle and the cotton [STORYTELLERS] Generations of Adam [SOLOISTS] And Noah,in his turn, Sons had he: [SOLOISTS, STORYTELLERS(overlapping)] Shem was one Ham was two Japheth three That's how it should be [SOLOISTS] For son follow father, birth follow birth... [STORYTELLERS] Mamma tell daughter how boy follow girl [SOLOISTS] Spread the people all over the earth... [STORYTELLERS] Spread the people all over the wide wide world [SOLOISTS] Generation [STORYTELLERS] Generation Generations of Adam [SOLOISTS] Generation [STORYTELLERS] All the nations Multiplications Generations of Adam [MALE SOLOIST] Son follow Father [STORYTELLERS] Generation