Исполнитель: Elton John

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Песня: Welcome to the New World*
What more could one expect
Of something new?

A feast of saints and sinners
A home spun web of old beginnings
This new world holds the most collective stew
For what indeed could match this pot-pourri

Here the immigrant is plentiful
The pagan Indian colorful
This America seems the ideal spot for me
The German and the Irish flock here with hope and family
And a melody of language fills the streets
Like myself there are the French who bring their old world common sense
While the Spanish bring their fine nobility
Here the tribal garb and manners of the free people of color
Seem strange to me when others are enslaved

This New Orleans, this melting pot is overflowing with cast-offs
Who've been dragged or freely came across the waves
And here there's cheer in the streets as they shout out the windows

Welcome to the new world of the Cajun and the Creole
Welcome to the new world you preening puffed-up Europeans
Shake loose your pious shackles for some good old superstition
And welcome to the new world for a wealth of new beginnings

The port is filled with sailors bent on drunkenness and lechery
Who quest a tavern filled with whores and rum
And while priests run rampant blessing any malcontent confessing
It's apparent they're outnumbered by the scum
The poet and the artist find these mean streets most romantic
Enchanted by the bayou's sticky heat
In such civilized debauchery a society built on sorcery
Could inspire the most illiterate of beasts
And here there's cheer in the streets as they shout out the windows

So I think for me a mansion
On some reputable plantation
Would well be suit this nouvelle pioneer
For I'm sold upon this city
And the grand old Mississippi
And the variations of cuisine that are here


* – Демо-версия композиции Welcome To The New World из мюзикла Lestat

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Чего ещё можно было ожидать
От чего-то нового?

Пир святых и грешников,
Домотканая паутина дерзких начинаний.
Этот новый свет славится всеобщим брожением.
Что может сравниться с этим попурри?
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