The Best of All Possible Worlds by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics

[DR. PANGLOSS]
Let us review
Lesson eleven!

[STUDENTS]
Paragraph two
Axiom seven

[PANGLOSS]
Once one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this is
The best of all possible worlds!

[STUDENTS]
Once one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this is
The best of all possible worlds!

[PANGLOSS]
Pray classify
Pigeons and camels
[MAXIMILLIAN]
Pigeons can fly!

[PAQUETTE]
Camels are mammals!

[PANGLOSS]
There is a reason
For everything under the sun!

[CANDIDE]
There is a season
For everything under the sun!

[MAXIMILLIAN]
Objection!
What about snakes?

[PANGLOSS]
Snakes!
'Twas snake that tempted mother Eve
Because of snake we now believe
That though depraved
We can be saved
From hellfire and damnation
[STUDENTS]
Because of snake's temptation!

[PANGLOSS]
If snake had not seduced our lot
And primed us for salvation
Jehovah could not pardon all
The sins that we call cardinal
Involving bed and bottle!

[ALL]
Now onto Aristotle!

[PANGLOSS]
Mankind is one
All men are brothers!

[STUDENTS]
As you'd have done
Do unto others!

[PANGLOSS]
It's understood in
This best of all possible worlds--

[MAXIMILLIAN]
All's for the good in
This best of all possible worlds!
[CANDIDE]
Objection!
What about war?

[PANGLOSS]
War!
Though war may seem a bloody curse
It is a blessing in reverse
When cannon roar
Both rich and poor
By danger are united!

[STUDENTS]
Till every wrong is righted!

[PANGLOSS]
Philosophers make evident
The point that I have cited
'Tis war makes equal -- as it were --
The noble and the commoner
Thus war improves relations!

[ALL]
Now onto conjugations!

[PANGLOSS]
Amo, amas
Amat, amamus!

[STUDENTS]
Amo, amas
Amat, amamus!

[PANGLOSS]
Proving that this is
The best of all possible worlds
With love and kisses
The best of all possible worlds!

[STUDENTS]
Proving that this is
The best of all possible worlds
With love and kisses
The best of all possible worlds!

[PANGLOSS]
Quod erat demonstrandum!
QED!
Amo, amas
Amat, amamus!

[MAXIMILLIAN] (overlapping)
Quod erat demunstrandum!
QED!
Amo, amas!
Quod erat demonstrandum!

[PAQUETTE] (overlapping)
Quod erat demunstrandum!
QED!
Amo, amas!

[CANDIDE] (overlapping)
Quod erat demonstrandum!
QED!

[CUNEGONDE] (overlapping)
Quod erat demunstrandum!

[ALL]
Quod erat demonstrandum
In this best of all
Possible, possible, possible worlds!
Quod erat demonstrandum!
Q!
E!
D!