Wonders Of The World - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Ta-da!

Oh yes indeed!

And now, Mirabile dictu et curibus pluribus unum!

Or to use the vernacular

Behold Professor Marvel’s Magical Lantern

To see the wonders of the world you won’t need to go too far from home

Not too far at all

Dorothy there are other ways

To see the world, so shift your gaze

To this extravagant appliance

Mainly magic, slightly science

With no stressful travel plans

As you don’t have to move from Kansas, see?

The unabridged assembled wonders of the world

Fly the coop and cross the ocean

Time and distance set in motion

Grab this chance to wander yonder

All the earth is ours to ponder

From the poles to the equator

No one could provide a greater view

There’s the Nile, now some don’t give a hoot

That it’s the longest river

But we know in miles of course it’s four-one-eighty

Seas to source

It’s nature at it’s most prolific

Pyramids are quite terrific too

So welcome to the waiting wonders of the world

Sometimes we may feel something simply can’t be real

Like a road beneath your feet that’s paved with gold

I would be inclined to maintain an open mind

For truth is very strange if truth be told

There’s old popacatepetl

New York City, glass and metal

Everest unconquered mountain

Over five miles high and countin'

Here’s the arctic pole and polar bears

And northern lights and solar flares

A myriad exquisite wonders of the world

Imagine red and blue on the mountains of Peru

And Sahara sands of yellow burning white

In jungles black and green fearsome creatures never seen

Other than right now- oh!

That’s not right!

I’m so sorry, that was from my private collection

Moving rapidly along

We don’t have to take it slowly

Here’s Tibet, remote and holy

Angel falls in Venezuela

Eiffel Tower, humpback whale!

A moment feeling all the thrills

Of being near the seven hills of Rome

Oh so many sights to savour

This has merely been a flavour

Maybe time for one more wonder

Very strange it looks like thunder

But the point that I’m conveying

Is you see it all while staying home

And home is one of many wonders of the world

The unabridged assembled wonders of the world

Professor Marvel’s patent wonders of the world