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Artist: Oliver
Canonical path: /oliver/its-a-fine-life-reprise
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Its A Fine Life Reprise
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Its A Fine Life Reprise
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SIKES
(spoken) Tell 'em all about us would you?
NANCY
(spoken) No, I won't stand by and see it done, Bill!
FAGIN
(spoken) Why Nancy, you're wonderful tonight. Such talent! What an actress, eh, Bill?
NANCY
(spoken) Am I? Well, take care I don't over do it! 'Cos if I do, I'm goin' to put my mark on some of you, and I don't care if I hang for it!
SIKES
(spoken) You? Do you know who you are, and what you are?
NANCY
(spoken) Oh, yeah, yeah, I know all about that. You don't have to tell me!
SIKES
(spoken) A fine one you are for the boy to make a friend of!
NANCY
(spoken) Lord help me, I am, and I wish I'd of been struck down dead before I lent a hand in brining him back here. 'Cause after tonight, 'e's a liar and a thief and all that's bad. Ain't that enough for you, without beating him to death?
FAGIN
(spoken)Come, come Nancy, civil words. Civil words, eh, Bill?
NANCY
(spoken) Civil words! You deserve them from me, don't you! 'Cause I was out on the streets for you when I was a child half his age, and I've been in the same trade, and the same service for fifteen years and don't you forget it!
SIKES
(spoken) What if you have? It's your living, ain't it?
NANCY
(sung) Some living! Some living!
SIKES
What you deserve you get!
NANCY
No getting! All giving!
FAGIN
Must we have murders yet?
SIKES
There'll be murders! There'll be terror
...Such as you've never seen!
NANCY
Lord help me.
FAGIN
No violence...
SIKES
Watch it, Nancy! Make no error!
FAGIN
Please no violence...Please no scenes
SIKES
There ain't no in-between.
NANCY
Lord help me.
FAGIN
No violence...
SIKES
...In life!
NANCY
If you don't mind making a mate of satan
It's a fine life!
SIKES
Fine life!
FAGIN
My life!...Satan!?
SIKES
No, we don't mind keeping the angels waiting.
It's a fine life.
DODGER
Fine life!
NANCY
Fine life!
FAGIN
Come... ...Beter do as you're told.
SIKES
Watch out!
FAGIN
Bill has got a heart of gold!
SIKES
Get out...
FAGIN
Better not to mess with it...
SIKES
On the job!
FAGIN
Better make the best of it...
SIKES
Shut your gob!
FAGIN
It's a fine...
SIKES
Fine...
DODGER
Fine...
NANCY
Fine...
ALL
...Life!!
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