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Scream and Run Away
This is the song that should have been on the credits of the movie ...
SCREAM AND RUN AWAY
The Count has an eye on his ankle
And lives in a terrible place.
He wants all your money, he's never at all funny,
He wants to remove your face.
And you might be thinking what a romp this is...
But wait till you meet his accomplices!
When you see Count Olaf,
You're suddenly full of
Disgust and despair and dismay;
In the whole of the soul of
Count Olaf there's no love
When you see Count Olaf, count to zero -
Then scream and run away!
Scream, scream, scream, and run away -
Run run run, run run run run
Or die, die die die, die die die die, die die die!
Two women with powdered white faces,
And one long-nosed bald man with warts.
Things worsen and worsen, there's a hook-handed person,
And others with nastier parts.
This evil and unpleasant crew
Complete Count Olaf's acting troupe
The goal of Count Olaf
Is getting control of
The fortunes of urchins and orphans, hooray* --
I mean horrors, Count Olaf
Is no laughing matter:
When you see Count Olaf, count to zero -
Then scream and run away!
Scream, scream, scream, and run away -
Run run run, run run run run
Or die, die die die, die die die die!
Run, run run run, run run run run,
Or die, die die die, die die die die, die die die!
I wish I could provide you with a link to a place where you can actually hear this song, but despite their infinite coolness, HarperCollins removed the "Count Olaf" section of the Snicket site and replaced it with a page devoted to the movie. Boooo. I mean, the movie already HAS its own page, courtesy of Dreamworks/Universal/Nickelodeon/Whatevercompanytheyhiredtomaketheirpage, surely all they needed to do was add a link! Sigh...
I can only hope that, at the conclusion of the series, the Gothic Archies will release a CD of all the songs used on the audio books. They rock.
In my searches, though, I discovered two interesting pages:
This site has guitar chords for the song. (it's in 3/4 time!)
And ... this one has a quiz thingy... Apparently, for me, Olaf will come disguised as a popcorn vendor. His plan will be to kill Sunny & Klaus and kidnap Violet, which is thwarted when Violet invents a ... (that's literally what it said, "when Violet invents a...") The applicable assistant(s) will be a white powdered face woman, no one will die (!), and ...(my favourite)... Escape: I don't. I hide! (It's like the quiz knows me or something.)
*hooray - This is my interpretation... Stephen Merritt, who sings this in the recording, does not have the world's best diction. The only concrete facts about this word are that it has two syllables and that the first vowel is more closed than the second. The best I could come up with, after listening to it obsessively, was "hooray," even though it doesn't make much sense, besides sounding kind of like "horrors." The only place to double-check it would be Daniel Handler's interview on Fresh Air, but alas, he only sings the first verse. Curses!
I promise I'll stop using footnotes. Someday.
SCREAM AND RUN AWAY
The Count has an eye on his ankle
And lives in a terrible place.
He wants all your money, he's never at all funny,
He wants to remove your face.
And you might be thinking what a romp this is...
But wait till you meet his accomplices!
When you see Count Olaf,
You're suddenly full of
Disgust and despair and dismay;
In the whole of the soul of
Count Olaf there's no love
When you see Count Olaf, count to zero -
Then scream and run away!
Scream, scream, scream, and run away -
Run run run, run run run run
Or die, die die die, die die die die, die die die!
Two women with powdered white faces,
And one long-nosed bald man with warts.
Things worsen and worsen, there's a hook-handed person,
And others with nastier parts.
This evil and unpleasant crew
Complete Count Olaf's acting troupe
The goal of Count Olaf
Is getting control of
The fortunes of urchins and orphans, hooray* --
I mean horrors, Count Olaf
Is no laughing matter:
When you see Count Olaf, count to zero -
Then scream and run away!
Scream, scream, scream, and run away -
Run run run, run run run run
Or die, die die die, die die die die!
Run, run run run, run run run run,
Or die, die die die, die die die die, die die die!
I wish I could provide you with a link to a place where you can actually hear this song, but despite their infinite coolness, HarperCollins removed the "Count Olaf" section of the Snicket site and replaced it with a page devoted to the movie. Boooo. I mean, the movie already HAS its own page, courtesy of Dreamworks/Universal/Nickelodeon/Whatevercompanytheyhiredtomaketheirpage, surely all they needed to do was add a link! Sigh...
I can only hope that, at the conclusion of the series, the Gothic Archies will release a CD of all the songs used on the audio books. They rock.
In my searches, though, I discovered two interesting pages:
This site has guitar chords for the song. (it's in 3/4 time!)
And ... this one has a quiz thingy... Apparently, for me, Olaf will come disguised as a popcorn vendor. His plan will be to kill Sunny & Klaus and kidnap Violet, which is thwarted when Violet invents a ... (that's literally what it said, "when Violet invents a...") The applicable assistant(s) will be a white powdered face woman, no one will die (!), and ...(my favourite)... Escape: I don't. I hide! (It's like the quiz knows me or something.)
*hooray - This is my interpretation... Stephen Merritt, who sings this in the recording, does not have the world's best diction. The only concrete facts about this word are that it has two syllables and that the first vowel is more closed than the second. The best I could come up with, after listening to it obsessively, was "hooray," even though it doesn't make much sense, besides sounding kind of like "horrors." The only place to double-check it would be Daniel Handler's interview on Fresh Air, but alas, he only sings the first verse. Curses!
I promise I'll stop using footnotes. Someday.
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