"Glee Club Rehearsal" is a song from the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and the animated TV special of the same name. It is sung by the entire cast, directed by Schroeder. However, by the end of the song, only Schroeder and Snoopy are left singing. "Glee Club Rehearsal" includes the lyrics to the song "Home on the Range" but with the addition of the Peanuts characters arguing with each other while singing it.
The number was scripted in the 1967 Off Broadway, 1968 West End, 1970 U.S. Tour, and 1971 Broadway productions, but was not included on any recordings prior to the 1999 revival.
Lyrics[]
Animated version[]
Sally: Do, re, mi, fa, so la, ti, do. Do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do.
Schroeder: That's very good, Sally. Where is everybody? I told them to be here. If we don't rehearse we can't sing at the assembly tomorrow. Charlie Brown! Linus! Lucy!
Lucy: Give me back my pencil, you blockhead!!
Linus: No! Not 'til you give me back my crayons!
Lucy: That is my best pencil! If you don't give me back my pencil, I'll tell Sally what you said about her!
Schroeder: Stop that! We gotta rehearse! You're late!
Sally: What did you say about me, Linus?
Lucy: He said --
Linus: Lucy...
Schroeder: Stop that!
Charlie Brown: I'm sorry, I'm late, Schroeder, but Snoopy needed --
Schroeder: There is no time to be sorry!
Sally: What did he say?
Lucy: He said that...
Schroeder: Quiet!! Now... remember... this is a mood piece. We must paint a picture... with music and words... and concentrate! Remember. . . adagio con brio!
All: Oh give me a home Where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play...
Lucy: Give me my pencil
All: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
Linus: Not on your life
All: And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Sally: If you don't tell me what you told Lucy I'm just going to scream
Lucy: Give me my pencil you blockhead!!
All: Home, home on the range.
Lucy: Give me my pencil
Linus: No!
All: Where the deer and the antelope play.
Linus: Not until you promise not to tell her
Lucy: What are you trying to do? Stifle my freedom of speech?
All: Where seldom is heard
Lucy: Give me my pencil!
All: A discouraging word
Linus: No promise no pencils!
All: And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Sally: What pencil?
Linus: No!
All: Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Lucy: Give me that pencil!!
Sally: Linus, it just isn't fair!
All: Flows leisurely down the stream
Charlie Brown (to Linus): Why did you take Sally's pencil?
Linus: Aargh! (He storms off)
All: There the graceful, white swan goes gliding along
Sally (to Lucy): What did he call me?
All: Like a maid in a heavenly dream.
Lucy: He said, he said you were... an enigma!
Sally: An enigma?
Charlie Brown: An enigma?
Snoopy: An enigma?
All: Home, home on the range......
Sally: Boy that makes me... What a terrible thing to call a... What's an enigma? Never mind!! (She storms off too)
Charlie Brown, Schroeder and Snoopy: Where the deer and the......
Lucy: What's an enigma?
Charlie Brown, Schroeder and Snoopy: Antelope
Charlie Brown: What's an enigma?
All: Play.
Snoopy: What's an en--
Lucy: Hey!! He's still got my pencil! (Now she storms off)
Charlie Brown and Schroeder: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word...
Schroeder: And the skies are not cloudy all day!
Snoopy: Arooo! Arooo! Arooo!
(Schroeder and Snoopy shake hands at the end of the song)
1999 version[]
Schroeder: Of course it's surprising, but I'm sure Lucy knows now that she can't be crabby anymore.
Sally (who is echoing Schroeder): Anymore.
Schroeder: Where is everybody? I told them to be here.
Sally: You told them to be here.
Schroeder: If we don't rehearse we can't sing at the assembly tomorrow.
Sally: Assembly tomorrow.
Schroeder: Charlie Brown!
Sally: Charlie Brown!
Schroeder: Linus!
Sally: Linus!
Schroeder and Sally: Lucy!
Lucy: Give me back my pencil, you blockhead!!
Linus: No! Not until you give me back my crayons!
Lucy: That's my best pencil! If you don't give me back my pencil, I'll tell Sally what you said about her!
Schroeder: Stop that! We gotta rehearse! You're late!
Sally: What did you say about me, Linus?
Lucy: He said -
Linus: Lucy!
Schroeder: Stop that!
Charlie Brown: Sorry I'm late, but Snoopy -
Schroeder: There is no time to be sorry!
Sally: What did he say?
Lucy: He said-
Schroeder: Quiet!! Now remember, this is a mood piece. We must paint a picture with music and words... and concentrate! (He blows the pitch pipe)
All: Ahhhh
Schroeder: Remember. . . adagio con brio!
All: Oh give me a home Where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play...
Lucy: Give me my pencil!
All: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word...
Linus: Not on your life!
All: And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Sally: If you don't tell me what you told Lucy I'm just gonna scream!
Lucy: Give me my pencil you blockhead!! All: Home, home on the range!
Lucy: Give me my pencil!
Linus: No!
All: Where the deer and the antelope play.
Linus: Not unless you promise not to tell her!
Lucy: What are you trying to do? Stifle my freedom of speech?
All: Where seldom is heard
Lucy: Give me my pencil!
All: A discouraging word
Linus: No promise, no pencil!
All: And the skies are not cloudy all day.
(Lucy slips Sally the pencil, and Sally holds it up, teasing Linus)
Sally: What pencil? (She laughs)
Linus: No! All: Oh, give me a land... (Linus grabs the pencil back.)
Linus: Give me that pencil!
All: Where the bright diamond sand...
Sally: Linus, it just isn't fair!
Schroeder: Sing!!!
All: Flows leisurely down the stream!
Charlie Brown (to Linus): Why did you take Sally's pencil?
Linus: Aargh! (storms off)
All: There the graceful white swan goes gliding along...
Sally (to Lucy): What did he call me?
All: Like a maid in a heavenly dream...
Lucy: He said, he said you were... an enigma!
Sally: An enigma?
Charlie Brown: An enigma?
Snoopy: An enigma?
All (except Sally):Home, home on the range...
Sally: Boy that makes me... What a terrible thing to call a... What's an enigma? Never mind! (storms off)
All: Where the deer and the...
Lucy: What's an enigma?
All: Antelope...
Charlie Brown: What's an enigma?
All: Play!
Snoopy: What's an en- (no one else is next to him)
Lucy: Hey! He's still got my pencil! (storms off)
Charlie Brown and Schroeder: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word... (He sees he is alone, and leaves. Schroeder gives up.)
Schroeder: And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Snoopy: Arrro ooo ooo... (blows Schroeder a kiss)
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