Bromford's Ark - Part 4 - 12:02 a.m.

Apartment 23 - Fourteenth Floor … and we go from door to door.

Wanda and Waldo Whale from apartment 23 join us one minute later. I do not want to describe them for they are big … ehm … persons, I mean, very big.

Kylie is still grumpy and not amused.

'Apartment 24 is my apartment,' she murmurs. 'What are these beings doing in my apartment? I just took a few days off. And now? Xenia and Xander Xerus? Why now? Why not when I was on my road trip with the llama through the US of A?'

'And how strange are these names?' the llama adds.

'Xerus?' I ask.

'No', the llama replies. 'Xenia and Xander!'

'We are not bashing names here', Waldo Whale says in an ultra-deep singing voice.

And way down we go …

"Bromford Bay"

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland

It may be at the closing of your day

You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh

And see the sun go down on Bromford Bay

Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream

The women in the meadow making hay

And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin

And watch the barefoot gosoons at their play

For the breezes blowin' o'er the sea from Ireland

Are perfumed by the heather as they blow

And the women in the uplands diggin' praties

Speak a language that the strangers do not know

Yet the stangers came and tried to teach us their way

They scorned us just for bein' what we are

But they might as well go chasing after moon beams

Or light a penny candle from a star

And if there's is going to be a life hereafter

And somehow I am sure there's going to be

I will ask my God to let me make my heaven

In that dear land across the Irish sea

Bromford's Arc - Part 3 - 12:01 a.m.

Apartment 24 - Fifteenth Floor … and we go from door to door.

'Llama and Bromford out on an adventure?' I ask. 'The same procedure as last year, Miss Animal?'

'The same procedure as every year, Frank!' the llama answers.

'Wait a minute.' Kylie seems a little bit suspicious. 'Why did it take us almost half an hour to get down here to the fifteenth floor? And why are these people coming out of the apartment? I hope you still remember that this is our apartment, Nigel's and mine. Well, mine, when he is out to university.'

'Xenia and Xander Xerus', the newcomers say.

'Come on, Kylie', I try to explain. 'You know Xenia. We call her Fortune Cookie. She is the one who provides us with all these wise sayings from time to time.'

No, Kylie is not convinced.

And way down we go …


"Bromford Bowl"

Leave me alone
I'm in control
Gonna have a bad time
Rocking at the Bromford Bowl

Blow, daddy, blow
Cause me to weep
Cry, baby, cry
All around the breeding ground muscular dudes

Pass me by
Slap me bye bye

And I don't even have to go
Up in a deconstructed badman
Raging river flow

Melanie asked you for the mission to report two more
I'm made a fool
Next time a cool joke
But I cannot go back to that town
They make fun of me too much
And I cannot go back to that town
Like my brother said before he died
One breaking down

Leave me alone
Nobody home
You've a new brand blue magic cold wedding gown

Not much to say
Cry, baby, cry
But I cannot go back to Shanghai

 

 

Bromford's Ark - Part 2 - 11:30 p.m.

Penthouse…

One minute later the llama opens the wardrobe and takes out a pouch it is going to carry over its' shoulder.

'Stop thinking about present times, dude!' the llama says. 'Let's go out on an adventure.'

Tonight we don't care about the world and its' regulations. Tonight we will go down the apartment house and meet all the residents who are also the owners of the apartments.

'Didn't you do something like that some ten years ago?' the llama asks. 'Ten years ago, before you even met me?'

'Yes,' I say, 'but I was alone then and I started on the First Floor and went from door to door, going upstairs through the house. Now we start here on the rooftop and way down we go.'

'Who are all these people, dude?' the llama asks.

'They are a very nice couple called Zoey and Zachary Zebra, you know.'

'And we are Yvonne and Yves Yak and we are also here for the number.'

Another couple has arrived within the last minute.

'And I hope you still remember your best friend Kylie and her son Nigel', my best friend Kylie says.

And way down we go …

 
"Bromford Song"

We're knights of the round table, we dance whene're we're able.
We do routines, and chorus scenes with footwork imp-e-cable;
We dine well here in Bromford, we eat ham and jam and spam alot.

We're knights of the round table, our shows are for-mid-able
But many times, we're given rhymes, that are quite un-sing-able
We're opera mad in Bromford, we sing from the diaphragm a-lot!

In war we're tough and able,
Quite in-de-fa-ti-gable,
Between our quests, we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable,
It's a busy life in Bromford:

(Bass-Solo): I have to push the pram-a-lot!

Arthur: On second thought, let's not go to Bromford. It is a silly place.