Songtext:
From Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack
(Reporters asking questions-spoken)
Reporter 1: How does Conrad feel about going into the army?
JA: How does he feel? You ask how he feels He's much too shy to tell you so I'll tell you how he feels He feels brave and eager, strangely humble Proud to be a plain GI
VW: He would gladly, face those bullets, for he's not afraid to die
ch: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy
JA (spoken): And that's why he volunteered
Reporter 2 (spoken): Volunteered? I heard he appealed 3 times!
VW (spoken):Sing!
ch: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true When you're not near us, we're blue/ OH Conrad we love you
Reporter 3 (spoken): What's the picture on you and that Hollywood star? Are you two engaged?
VW (spoken): Is he engaged? Is Conrad engaged? There's absolutely nothing to the rumor he's engaged
JA: She's a real pal, like a sister, but it doens't mean a thing And that 18 karat diamond, it was just a friendship ring
ch: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy
Reporter 4 (spoken): Then why was her husband so mad?
JA (spoken): Sing!
ch: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true
JA (spoken): Why, I'll never forget Conrad's first word's when he heard he'd been accepted into the armed forces 'Gee Mr Peterson' he cried eagerly, 'Do you think they'll assign me to one of those frontline trenches (army talk here I don't know what they're saying)
Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it true you found Conrad in a reform school?
VW & JA: That is a lie A lie through and through I'll tell you where he
came from here's the story and it's true
VW: He was born in Indo-China
JA: He was born in old Virginia
VW: Son of missionaries there
JA: On a thousand acre farm
VW: Very poor and very hungry
JA: From a line of wealthy planters
VW: What a cruel life to bear
JA: (I can't understand this part but it's something to do with being rich I'm guessing)
VW: Then he drifted down to Hong Kong
JA: (More stuff I don't get)
VW: In a waterfront saloon
JA: In the moonlight he would croon
VW: That is where we heard him singing
JA: That's where Conrad started singing
VW: 'neath that diry Hong Kong moon
JA: 'neath that old plantation moon
(while VW and JA sing "America", chorus sings the conrad theme song-it's all
one big integrated mess)
ch: We love you COnrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true When you're not near us, we're blue Oh Conrad we love you
VW & JA (over chorus): Oh beautiful for spaceious skies for amber waves of grain America, America, g-d shed his grace on thee
All: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy
(Reporters asking questions-spoken)
Reporter 1: How does Conrad feel about going into the army?
JA: How does he feel? You ask how he feels He's much too shy to tell you so I'll tell you how he feels He feels brave and eager, strangely humble Proud to be a plain GI
VW: He would gladly, face those bullets, for he's not afraid to die
ch: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy
JA (spoken): And that's why he volunteered
Reporter 2 (spoken): Volunteered? I heard he appealed 3 times!
VW (spoken):Sing!
ch: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true When you're not near us, we're blue/ OH Conrad we love you
Reporter 3 (spoken): What's the picture on you and that Hollywood star? Are you two engaged?
VW (spoken): Is he engaged? Is Conrad engaged? There's absolutely nothing to the rumor he's engaged
JA: She's a real pal, like a sister, but it doens't mean a thing And that 18 karat diamond, it was just a friendship ring
ch: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy
Reporter 4 (spoken): Then why was her husband so mad?
JA (spoken): Sing!
ch: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true
JA (spoken): Why, I'll never forget Conrad's first word's when he heard he'd been accepted into the armed forces 'Gee Mr Peterson' he cried eagerly, 'Do you think they'll assign me to one of those frontline trenches (army talk here I don't know what they're saying)
Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it true you found Conrad in a reform school?
VW & JA: That is a lie A lie through and through I'll tell you where he
came from here's the story and it's true
VW: He was born in Indo-China
JA: He was born in old Virginia
VW: Son of missionaries there
JA: On a thousand acre farm
VW: Very poor and very hungry
JA: From a line of wealthy planters
VW: What a cruel life to bear
JA: (I can't understand this part but it's something to do with being rich I'm guessing)
VW: Then he drifted down to Hong Kong
JA: (More stuff I don't get)
VW: In a waterfront saloon
JA: In the moonlight he would croon
VW: That is where we heard him singing
JA: That's where Conrad started singing
VW: 'neath that diry Hong Kong moon
JA: 'neath that old plantation moon
(while VW and JA sing "America", chorus sings the conrad theme song-it's all
one big integrated mess)
ch: We love you COnrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true When you're not near us, we're blue Oh Conrad we love you
VW & JA (over chorus): Oh beautiful for spaceious skies for amber waves of grain America, America, g-d shed his grace on thee
All: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy
