Fabulous Places
Composer(s): Leslie Bricusse



Emma:
How You Can Stand There 
And Say What You're Saying
I Just Don't Know! 
I Must Admit 
The Sahara Is One Place 
I'm Praying 
We Just Won't Go! 

Dolittle:
This Is Absolutely Typical Of A Woman! 

Emma:
There Are So Many Fabulous Faraway 
Places To See! 

Dolittle:
She Makes One Pie And Goes Completely Mad! 

Emma:
Such As Mexico, Sweden, Hawaii
Japan And Capri! 

Dolittle:
Been Here Two Minutes And She's Re-Planning The Entire Trip! 

Emma:
There Are So Many Exciting & Wonderful Places! 
Much More Inviting Than Desert Oases! 
Pleasant As Home Is
It Isn't What Rome Is! 
So Why Stay There? 

When There Are So Many 
Fabulous Faraway Places To See! 

Dolittle:
I Didn't Think The Pie Was All That Wonderful! 

Emma:
Why Should Spain And Tahiti And Rio 
Just Be Only Names To You And Me? 

Dolittle:
Is There Any More? 

Emma:
I Feel Certain There Are People 
We'd Be Glad To Know There! 
So Tell Me Why Don't We Get Up And Go There? 
Go To Those Fabulous Places 
Where We Long To Be? 
Go To Bangkok & Hong Kong & Paris & Venice! 
Tokyo & Cairo & Lisbon & London! 
Wonderful Fabulous Places I'm Longing To See! 

Dolittle:
London? 
Do You Really Think We're Going To Find The Great Pink Sea Snail 
Wandering Up And Down Piccadilly! 
Waiting For A Bus? 

Emma:

Oh, You're So Unromantic! 
All I'm Saying Is...... 
There Are So Many 
Simply Incredible Places To See! 

Dolittle:
Not With Great Pink Sea Snails In Them 
There Aren't! 

Emma:
When I Think Of The Warm Caribbean
I See A New World For You And Me!...... 

Dolittle:
The Caribbean Maybe...... 

Matthew:
I'd Give Anything Just To Have 
One Single Day There! 

Emma:
And Once We Get There
I Know That We'll Stay There! 
Stay In Those Fabulous Places 
Where We Long To Be! 
Such As Siam! 

Matthew:
Sienna!  

Tommy:
Vienna! 

Matthew:
Verona!  

Emma:
Java! 

Polynesia:
Jamaica!  

Matthew & Emma:
Bombay! 

Polynesia:
Barcelona!- 

Matthew & Emma:
Ole! 

Polynesia:
Ole! 

Emma:
Show Me Those Fabulous Places 
I'm Longing To See! 

Dolittle:
My Dear Miss Fairfax 
You Seem To Have Entirely Missed The Point! 
I'm Aware There Are Fabulous Places 
Wherever We Sail! 

Emma:
Yes, But Will We See Any Of Them! 

Dolittle:
We Will! 
But The Point Of The Journey Is Science! 
And Finding The Snail! 
An Incomparable Thrill! 
We Will Question The Sharks 
Off The Coast Of Tobago! 
Interview Swamp Life In Tierra Del Fuego! 

Emma:
But That Sounds Horrendous! 

Dolittle:
Oh, No! It's Tremendous! 
And Well Worth While! 
We'll Make Detailed Enquiries 
Of Every Crustacean We Meet! 

Tommy:
Crustacean? 

Dolittle:
Shellfish! - They're Sweet! 
We Will Sail To The Ends Of The Earth - 
Till Our Search For The Snail Is Quite Complete! 

Emma:
I'd Don't Trust You! 

Dolittle:
We'll Interrogate Beetles And Bugs In Nigeria! 
And, If We Have To 
Move On To Siberia! 
Eighty Below 
But A Place 
That We All Ought To See! 

Emma:
But I Haven't Brought The Right Clothes For Siberia! 

Dolittle:
Those Are The Fabulous Places 
You'll Visit With Me! 

Matthew:
Sounds Like We're In For A Good Time! 

Emma:
Well, Siberia Is One Place You'll Never See Me Go! 

Dolittle:
Stick In The Pin! 
Where The Pin Goes 
Then We Go! 

Matthew:
Ireland! 

Emma:
Rumania! 

Tommy:
How 'Bout Transylvania? 

Dolittle:
We'll Chase That Sea Snail From Here To Tasmania! 

Emma:
Show Me Those Fabulous Places 
I'm Longing To See! 

All:
We Will Venture Where 
Only The Brave And Insane Go 
Long As The Snail's 
At The End Of The Rainbow 
We'll See The Fabulous Places 
We're Longing To See!