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Preparations
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Preparations was released on May 19, 2017 by Reprise as a part of the album Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Ah, Anatole
Where are you off to?
[Verse 2]
Pierre, good man
Tonight I go away on an adventure
You'll not be seeing me for some time
I've found a new pleasure
And I'm taking her away
I'll send you a letter from Poland
[Verse 3]
Ha! An elopement
Fool, you are married already
Don't talk to me of that
I will not deprive myself of this one tonight
I take her tonight, lend me fifty rubles?
[Verse 4]
Ah, that's a true sage
Living in the moment
What I wouldn't give to be like him
[Verse 5]
The plan for Natalie Rostova's abduction
Had all been arranged
And the preparations made
On the day that Sonya decided to save her
That was the day
That the game was to be played
[Verse 6]
Natasha was to be on her back porch at ten
Anatole and his troika
Would scoop her up and then they'd ride forty miles
To the village of Kamenka, where an unfrocked priest
Was to make them get wed then back into the troika, off they'd go
Take the Poland highroad to the wedding bed
Passports, horses, ten thousand rubles I have taken from my sister
And another ten thousand raised with Dolokhov's help
[Verse 7]
We were gathered in my study drinking up some tea
Just Anatole, the two wedding witness and me
An abacus and paper money strewn on the desk
Persian rugs and bearskins hanging grotesque
Anatole was walking with his uniform unbuttoned
Walking to and fro
To and fro
To and fro
To and fro
To and fro
To and fro
To and fro
[Verse 8]
Now wait
You better just give it up now
Why don't you, while there's still time?
You'd really better drop it all
Give it up now, while there's still time
Do you know?
[Verse 9]
What, teasing again?
Oh fool, don't talk nonsense
Go to the devil, eh, really?
This is no time for your stupid jokes
[Verse 10]
I am not joking, I am talking sense
This is serious business
A dangerous business
Come here, come here
Come here, Anatole
Why would I joke about it, me of all people?
Who found the priest
Raised the money, got the passports, got the horses?
[Verse 11]
And well, I thank you for it
Do you think that I am not grateful?
[Verse 12]
And now you'll carry her away
But will they let it stop there?
You haven't thought this through, or do you just don't care?
Now listen to me tell it to you one last time
They will take you to the court and convict you for your crime
Already married and you're playing with a little girl
Don't you know?
Don't you think?
Don't you know?
[Verse 13]
Nonsense, nonsense
I'm scowling and grimacing
Didn't I explain it to you?
Didn't I, what?
[Verse 14]
And here Anatole with the stubborn attachment
Small minded people have
For conclusions they've worked out for themselves
Repeated this argument to me for the hundredth time
[Verse 15]
If this marriage isn't valid, then I'm off the hook
But if it is valid, it really doesn't matter
No one abroad is gonna know a thing about it
Isn't that so, now don't you know?
Don't talk to me
Don't, don't
What? What?
Ah, go to hell now, I'm a clutching my hair
It's the very devil here, feel how it beats
[Verse 16]
Ah, mon cher, mon cher
Quel pied et quel regard
What a foot she has
A glance, a goddess
And my handsome lips
Mutter something tender to myself
[Verse 17]
It's time
It's time
Now then, nearly ready?
You're dawdling
The driver is here
The driver is here
Balaga is here
Written by: Dave Malloy
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