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Theme
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Trust your feet in Price and Son
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Our work is tried and true
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Practical, Pragmatical
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Steadfast and Sturdy Too
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If you stroll or saunter, amble, walk, jog, hop or run
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The prudent shoe for you to choose is
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Price and Son
Mr. Price
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You might think beauty comes in spring and sparrow
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Or when the sun rise, hit’s the morning dew
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But if you walk the straight and narrow
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You’ll find the elegance and comfort is a—
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Do you know what the most beautiful thing in the world is Charlie?
Young Charlie
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A shoe.
Mr. Price
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The most beautiful thing in the world.
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie,
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That I know.
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Sing it Charlie!
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
Mr. Price
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Charlie, it’s beautiful
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Four generations have paved the way before you
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You’ll be next in line when my time is through
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And there’s a saying handed down I’ve found of value
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That you can tell about the fella from his-
Young Charlie
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Shoe!
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The most beautiful thing in the world
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie,
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That I know!
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I know!
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The most beautiful thing in the world
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie
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It’s beautiful!
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It’s beautiful!
Young Charlie
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But what if I don’t want to make shoes?
Mr Price
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You’re a right funny kid, you are.
Instrumental
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Ooh...
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Ahh...
Chorus
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie,
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That I know!
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I know!
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie,
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It’s beautiful!
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It’s beautiful!
Young Lola
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Feels like I’m dancing across the high wire
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Or bravely soaring off into the blue
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Just like a rocket lifts with sparks and fire
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Feels like the magic never ends inside these-
Lola's Father
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Take those things off your feet and get inside here! Stupid boy!
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Nicola
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Charlie, here are the shoes I told you about.
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Come have a look-see.
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Aren’t they the most necessary things ever?
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If you want to slip a ring on my finger,
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You’ll first slip these shoes on my feet.
Charlie
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It’s a tad posh for life in North Hampton, wouldn’t you say?
Nicola
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Then good thing we’re moving to London.
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And won’t they make a fittin farewell to the stink of cattle farms and tanin leather?
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Oh we may have been born in a small factory town,
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But we sure as hell don’t have to die there.
Charlie
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You see the price? There’s three months rent.
Nicola
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Pinch or pay for em, that is up to you,
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But these shoes are in my future.
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To new beginnings
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Hello to sunny days
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We’re upward mobile now
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Goodbye to small-town ways
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Till it’s impossible to find
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A trace of what we left behind
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And a defining element is in these
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Shoes.
Chorus
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world,
Nicola
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Charlie, that I know!
Chorus
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I know!
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie
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It’s beautiful!
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It’s beautiful!
Mr. Price
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Your life, your future, is right here at this factory!
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You belong here!
Charlie
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No Dad, I belong with Nicola in London.
Mr. Price
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No, you belong here.
Charlie
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Will you toast my journey?
Mr. Price
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But to leave your home and family for a job shopping in London!
Charlie
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Marketing, Dad.
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Richard Bailey has offered Nicola and me positions marketing real estate.
Mr. Price
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You’re breaking my heart, Charlie.
Charlie
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To you, Dad.
Mr. Price
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Shoes can protect a man’s journey,
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But only his heart can choose the path.
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And so a toast to our own Charlie.
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May you never fail to point your shoes back home.
Chorus Nicola/Charlie
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To Charlie! It’s beautiful
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It’s beautiful
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To Charlie! Beautiful
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It’s beautiful
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To Charlie!
Mr. Price
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These shoes are symbols of our family’s history!
Nicola
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These shoes will carry me to where I want to be!
Young Lola Mr. Price Nicola
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Feel’s like I’m dancing!
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These shoes are symbols of our family’s history
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These shoes will carry me where I want to be
Young Lola
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Don’t you go anywhere, cuz' you belong to me!
Charlie
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You all do realize you’re talking about shoes?
Chorus
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The most beautiful thing in the world
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie, its
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Beautiful (Beautiful)
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Beautiful (Beautiful)
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Beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie,
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That I know!
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I know!
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The most beautiful thing in the world!
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The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie
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It’s beautiful
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It’s beautiful
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It’s beautiful
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Its beau...ti...ful.