copyright 2000   		  (The wire fence parts like a curtain and Johnny and Gertrud come down to the footlights with straw hats and canes., like a couple of hoofers in a Music Hall revue.)

JOHNNY & GERTRUD

YOU CAN FIND US IN MANHATTAN,
YOU CAN FIND US IN RANGOON.
YOU CAN FIND US ANY PLACE
WHERE THERE AIN’T A MASTER RACE
THOUGH THERE MAY BE ONE THERE SOON.

YOU CAN FIND US IN CALCUTTA
OR IN CAPE COD AMONG THE DUNES.
BY THE FOUR WINDS WE’VE BEEN SCATTERED
LEAVING EVERYTHING THAT MATTERED
IN THE HANDS OF THUGS AND GOONS.

NOW WE HAVEN’T GOT A HOMELAND
AND IT’S LIKE WE NEVER HAD.
JUST A NATION CALLED A FATHERLAND
RUN BY A DAD WHO’S MAD AS A HATTER
WHICH IS WHY WE HAD TO SCATTER.

YOU CAN FIND US IN BARBADOS
OR ROLLING IN THE BRITISH ISLES.
HAD TO LEAVE OUR DEAR BERLIN
‘CAUSE WE NEVER DID BEGIN
TO LEARN OUR GOOSESTEPS AND SEIG HEILS.

GERTRUD

(as Johnny does a bad soft-shoe dance)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Four and Twenty Black Sheep are a group of German emigres who were forced to flee their country owing to the rise of Nazism. Won’t you dig deeply into your pockets and contribute generously to the cause of restoring civilized government to the German people?

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