The Sad Tale Of The Beauxhommes - Once On This Island Ensemble/Gerry Mcintyre

作词：Lynn Ahrens

作曲：Stephen Flaherty

The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes

A history lesson

The boy's name was Daniel Beauxhomme

A boy from another world

Another people A people descended for the French

Some say some say

Some say some say

Four generations past

In the time of Napoleon

There came to this island

A Frenchman Armand

Armand Armand

And he built a great fortune

And he built a grand mansion

And he wed a fine lady

So pale and so blonde

Armand

But Armand took his pleasure

With the women who served him

Black peasant girls from

The village beyond

Armand

And the loveliest one

Bore the Frenchman a son

Such a fine peasant son

For Armand

A beautiful child the pale color

Of coffee mixed with cream

The beautiful one the beautiful son

Beauxhomme

They named him

Beauxhomme

Beauxhomme

The beautiful one the beautiful son

Beauxhomme

And the boy grew to be a man

And the great war began

Blacks fought against French

And the hated Napoleon

They fought for their island

And finally won

We won we won

And Armand sailed for France

By the seat of his pants

Driven out by his beautiful son

The beautiful one

The beautiful son

Beauxhomme Beauxhomme

What was his is now mine

The Beautiful one

The beautiful son

Beauxhomme Beauxhomme

But Armand left behind a terrible

Terrible curse

I curse my son

I curse my only son

I curse his sons

All of his sons

Generations

All Beauxhomme yet unborn

In advance

Your black blood will keep you

Forever on this island

While your hearts yearn forever for France

The unlucky one the unlucky son

Beauxhomme Beauxhomme

From bad blood to worse

The name of the curse

Beauxhomme

The despise us for our blackness

It reminds them where they're from

The sad sad tale

Of the Beauxhomme

Beauxhomme