(The ENGINEER is making his way furtively through the city. SOLDIERS seem to be everywhere.)ENGINEER If you want to die in bed Follow my example When you see a cloud ahead It’s time to show your class Hit the door before They make a target of your ass If you want to die in bed…
(The ENGINEER, in a peasant clothes, is brought back to the city from a re-education camp by THUY’s soldiers. THUY instructs him to find KIM in exchange for his freedom) (The ENGINEER tracks down KIM and leads THUY to her. Once more, she rejects his love declaring that she’s sworn herself to CHRIS; the enraged…
ENGINEER coo-coo princess, look who’s here your resurrected Engineer don’t ask me how I tracked you down who has the sharpest nose in town? I’m here to throw a rope before you drownfor men, will always be men you change the regime the lust doesn’t stop you and I will team up again together we’ll…
KIM: Last night I watched him sleeping, my body pressed to him. And then he started speaking. The name I heard him speak was Kim… Yes, I know that this was years ago, but when moonlight fills my room I know you are here, still. I still- I still believe you will return. I know…
(It is three years later. Saigon has been renamed Ho Chi Minh City. A street pageant is celebrating the glorious victory of North Vietnam and the Third Anniversary of Reunification.) FIRST GROUP On silent feet it came Breathing a sheet of flame, it came Closing in on its rightful prey Burning a hundred years away The morning…
CHRIS In a place that won’t let us feel In a life where nothing seems real I have found you I have found you KIM In a world that’s moving to fast In a world where nothing can last I will hold you I will hold you CHRIS Our lives will change when tomorrow comes…
(The door opens. A stranger enters.) THUY You’re here. It’s true It is as I was told This man, and you For how much were you sold? Our vows! Our name! You squander them on swine And worse! The shame! Before your family’s shrine CHRIS This girl is mine! THUY Yours? CHRIS Now THUY What!…
THUY you’re here, at last I’ve come to take you home all night, I ran I made it through the line Kim, tell your friends, it’s time to go away this life, it ends you’re safe with me CHRIS this girl is mine! THUY yours? CHRIS now THUY you? TOGETHER who are you? KIM stop!…
[GIRLS] One of us girls is moving on One girl will get out of saigon [GIGI] So now who’s really Miss Saigon [GIRLS] Tv and stereo she gets And Elvis Presley on cassettes [KIM and CHRIS enter] [GIRLS] Look how he bought her a new dress You did a job on him I guess [KIM]…
[At another location, CHRIS and the ENGINEER] [ENGINEER] My friend We had a deal for Kim, but that’s on ice I’m sorry, sergeant, but I’ve changed the price I need a visa from your embassy You get me that, you’ll get the girl for free [CHRIS] Cut the crap, this money’s all I got I…