ACT I - A Public Square in Ballyhoo.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus
- "Rustle and bustle and tussle and hustle and create a furore with voice and with muscle, hurry and scurry and flurry and worry..."
- No. 2 - Quartette - Worcestershire, De Brie, Saurbraten and Drinkamutchky
- "As you travel around this world, you say ... Strange! Odd! Queer! ..."
- No. 3 - Entrance of the Bey
- "Blow the trumpets! Beat the little drums and big drums! Welcome to the Bey of Ballyhoo! Sound the gong..."
- No. 4 - Song - Bey and Chorus
- "Allow me to inform you in a manner most official, I'm a man who has a duty to be done; I lower the swollen headed..."
- No. 5 - Song - Nancy
- "Mose Lincoln Lee from Tennessee, for his discourse took this text: Dat half-way doins' aint no account in a dis world or de next..."
- No. 6 - Entrance of Show Girls
- "We've just made a great sensation, all as debutantes you see. Not a circus aggregation ever drew such crowds as we..."
- No. 7 - Song - Muriel, with Vanderhyphen
- "When a little boy's been naughty and his mother finds it out, a spanking breeze comes blowing from the shore..."
- No. 8 - Nancy and Chorus
- "A little Glow-Worm, all alone, lived in a forest dark; a gay young Moth came winging by and heard her soft remark..."
- No. 9 - Serenade - Captain and Chorus
- "A soldier of fortune in far away Venice goes forth with his light guitar; from gondola floating, the hour striking ten..."
- No. 10 - Finale Act I
- "Welcome! How d'ye do? We're glad to see you; come right in, pray do! Pray feel at home! Step inside the Inn! You must be thirsty..."
ACT II - A Room in the Palace.
- No. 11a - Male Chorus and Solo - Worcestershire
- "A health! A health! Our tankards fill with wine so richly flowing; A toast! A toast, to echo still..."
- No. 11b - Entrance of Oriental Girls
- "Zing! zing-zing-zing! zing! zing-zing-zing! Dancing lightly, bending slightly." etc. "We do this thing just to please you..."
- No. 12 - Song - Vanderhyphen
- "There are two eyes to which the sun can not new luster lend; two eyes in which the midnight and the starlight softly blend..."
- No. 13 - Song - Vanderhyphen
- "Each morning when I first get up and thtand upon the floor, I have to thtop and think, how ev'ry thing's a dreadful bore..."
- No. 14 - Cupid's Ramble - Nancy and Girls
- "Cupid is out on a ramble, and to his archery who knows but you may fall a victim; Cupid, you know, is very clever..."
- No. 15 - Stenographers Song - Muriel and Chorus
- "When anything is said to me, I jot it down; (We jot it down.) What I might say instead, you see, I jot it down."
- No. 16 - Military Song - Prince and Chorus
- "I love to hear the rattle of the musketry in battle, or the booming thunder of the canon's roar..."
- No. 17 - Finale Act II
- "Shine on! my Glow-worm, shine out tonight; I'll be your loving Moth, you be my light; just like the little stars, brighter than all..."
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