Big Mole / Chapel Scene - Kurt Weill, Herbert Coleman

Is this the little gray house?

Yes, Alex.

And is the nest still in the tree?

Yes.

There it is.

And can I dig in the earth if I want to?

Yes, as much as you wish.

Oh, I like it here.

Mmm.

Big Mole was a digger of the fastest kind

He’d dig in the earth like you think in your mind

When Big Mole came to the side of a hill

Instead of going over, he’d start in to drill

He promised his mother a well in the town

And he brought boiling water from a thousand feet down

Down, down, down, down

Three mile, four miles, five miles down

He can go through rock, he can go through coal

Whenever you come to an oversized hole

Down at the bottom is Big Black Mole

Big Black Mole!

Big Black Mole!

When Mole was a younker they showed him a mine

He said, «I like the idea fine

Let me have that hose, let me have that drill»

If they hadn’t shut if off he’d be boring still

And down at the bottom he chunked all around

'Til he chunked out a city six mile in the ground

Down, down, down, down

Three miles, four miles, five miles down

You can be your pants, you can bet your soul

Whenever you come to a main-sized hole

Down at the bottom is Big Black Mole

Big Black Mole!

Big Black Mole!

Big Mole had a girl who was small and sweet

He promised her diamonds for her hands and feet

He dug so deep and he dug so well

He broke right into the ceiling of hell

And he looked the old devil spang in the eye

And he said, «I'm not coming back here 'til I die!»

Down, down, down, down

Three mile, four miles, five miles down

He can go through rock, he can go through coal

Whenever you come to a sure enough hole

Down at the bottom is Big Black Mole!

Big Black Mole!

Big Black Mole!

Big Black Mole!

Lord of the heart, look down upon

Our earthly pilgrimage

My dear people, my son Absalom will die tomorrow morning at four on the

scaffold, for a murder to which he confessed and of which he was guilty.

If I stay here now, I become a hindrance to you, and not a help.

And so I am resigning from my pastorate at Ndotshéni.

I must go.

Lord of the heart