Willy Russell Bright New Day
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Oh, bright new day!
We're movin' away
[MICKEY]
Mam, what's up?
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
We're startin' all over again
[FEMALE VOICE]
???
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Oh, bright new day!
We're movin' away
[FEMALE NEIGHBOUR]
Sammy!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Where nobody's heard of our name
[SAMMY]
I never done nothin'! Honest, mam!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Where we can begin again
Feel we can win and then
Live just like living should be
Got a new situation
A new destination
No reputation followin' me!
[CHILDREN]
What is it? What is it?
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
We're getting out
We're moving house
We're startin' all over again
[CHILDREN]
Yeah!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
We're leaving this mess
For our new address
[MRS JOHNSTON & CHILDREN]
65 Skelmersdale Lane
[MICKEY]
Where's that, mam?
[SAMMY]
Is that in the country?
[DONNA MARIE]
What's it like there?
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Where the air is so pure you get drunk just by breathing
The washing stays clean on the line
And there's space for the kids
'Cause the garden's that big
It'll take you a week just to reach the far side
(spoken)
Come on Sammy, Mickey, you've all gorra help
Er, please excuse us, we've gorra pack
We're movin'
(sung)
[MALE NEIGHBOUR]
What did she say?
[MALE NEIGHBOURS]
They're movin' away
Praise the Lord, He has delivered us at last!
[MALE NEIGHBOUR]
They're getting out
[MALE NEIGHBOURS]
They're moving house
Life won't be the same as in the past
[MALE NEIGHBOUR]
I can safely predict a sharp drop in the crime rate
[MALE NEIGHBOUR]
It'll be calm and peaceful 'round 'ere
[MALE NEIGHBOUR]
I know I might even ???
[MALE NEIGHBOURS]
??? without fear
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Just pack up the bags
We're leaving the rags
The wobbly wardrobe
Chest of drawers that doesn't close
The two-legged chair
The carpet so bare
You wouldn't see it if wasn't for the holes
Now that we're movin'
Now that we're improvin'
Let's just wash our hands of this lot
It's no longer fitting for me to be sitting
On a sofa I know for a fact was knocked off
We might get a car
Be all la-dee-dah
[SAMMY & MICKEY]
Beep beep!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Go driving out to the sands
[DONNA MARIE]
Mickey! Sammy! The sands, yeah!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
And at the weekend
A gentleman friend
Might take me dancing to the local bands
We'll have a front room
And then if it should happen
His Holiness flies in from Rome
He can sit there with me
Eating toast, drinking tea
In the sort of surroundings that remind him of home
(spoken)
[MICKEY]
It's like the country, isn't it, mam?
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
You'll be alright out here, son. Away from the muck and the dirt and the bloody trouble. I could dance - come 'ere!
[MICKEY]
Get off! Get off!
(sung)
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Oh, bright new day
We're movin' away
We're startin' all over again
[COMPANY]
All over again!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Oh, bright new day
We're movin' away
Where nobody's heard of our name
(spoken)
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
What're you laughin' at?
[MICKEY]
I'm not laughin', I'm smilin'. I haven't seen you happy like this for ages, mam!
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
I am happy now, son. But, hey, where's the others?
[MICKEY]
They went into that field over there, mam
[MRS JOHNSTONE]
Sammy. Sammy, get off that bleedin' cow before I kill ya! Christ, what's our Donna Marie stepped into? Sammy, that cow's a bull! Come 'ere the pair of ya!
(sung)
Now we can begin again
Feel we can win and then
Live just like living should be
Got a new situation
A new destination
No reputation followin' me!
[COMPANY]
We're gettin' out
We're movin' house
We're goin' away
We're gettin' out today
Gettin' out today
We've movin', movin' movin', we're movin', we're movin'
Movin' house
We're goin' away
Oh, bright new day!
