Songs for the Odysseus Play
Song 1 -- The Cyclops Home
A rocky coast with golden sand,
You have reached the cyclops' land.
Don't stop here for food to eat,
Human flesh is his favorite meat.
Forty feet tall and herder of sheep
His home is not safe for you to sleep.
Better salt water and stale bread,
Than to see the cyclops being fed.
A giant with one monstrous eye,
Those who meet him will surely die.
He is the god Poseidon's son,
But thinks murder is great fun.
Polyphemus is his name,
A cannibal with bloody shame.
Best to find some other beach,
Far from cyclops awful reach.
Song 2 -- Song of Circe
Brave Odysseus still must roam
With his sailors far from home.
Traveling o'er the ocean's deep,
Will they reach home to safely sleep?
On the blue sea near the setting sun
To a strange land have they now come.
An island rich in lovely trees
Wrapped at night by gentle breeze.
Lovely Circe rules this land
Casting magic with her hand.
Wondrous animals greet you there
But of Circe stranger be ware.
Singing and weaving at her loom
Comes Circe's voice from her room.
Mighty enchanter can she be
Creating spells in mystery.
Song 3 -- Song of the Underworld
(Chorus)
Avoid the land where Hades is King.
No flowers grow here, no birds will sing.
His palace has gold and silver walls
But only shadows walk in the halls.
Better talk softly and hold your breath,
When you cross the Styx, river of Death.
Charon will take you to the other side
But there's no return when you've died.
Down in these caverns gloomy and deep
The ghostly specters now slowly creep.
No love will ever come their way,
No hope to see the light of day.
(Chorus)
Former great heroes must bow their heads
To mighty Hades, King of the Dead.
Blackened beard and a dreadful eye
He rules over all of those who die.
No joy will this land ever bring,
No colorful Fall no verdant Spring.
Only foul darkness and endless gloom,
Enter this land and meet your doom.
(Chorus)