Innocence Script Song ‘Sally go round the sun Sally go round the moon Sally go round the sun Sally go round the moon’ Dancer A ‘My name is William Blake’ Dancer B ‘My name is William Blake’ Dancer C ‘My name is William Blake’ Dancer D ‘My name is William Blake’ Dancer E ‘My name is William Blake’ Musician ‘My name is William Blake’ Dancer A ‘Believe me, in the tree I saw, I saw the world burn bright, Starlight Through blue Mama, there are Angels’ Dancer B ‘Believe me, in the tree I saw, I saw the world burn bright, Starlight Through blue Mama, there are Angels’ Dancer C
‘Believe me, in the tree I saw, I saw the world burn bright, Starlight Through blue Mama, there are Angels’ Dancer D ‘Believe me, in the tree I saw, I saw the world burn bright, Starlight Through blue Mama, there are Angels’ Dancer E ‘Believe me, in the tree I saw, I saw the world burn bright, Starlight Through blue Mama, there are Angels’ Dancers ‘And now we close our eyes…’ Dancer B ‘And now we open our eyes We look with more than eyes, see more than eyes can see’ Dancer A ‘And now we close our eyes’ Dancer C ‘And now we open our eyes and see angels flying And now we close our eyes’ Dancer E ‘And now we open our eyes and see children playing’ Song ‘Girls and boys come out to play The moon doth shine as bright as day Leave your houses and leave your sleep Come join your playfellows in the street Come with a whoop and come with a call Up the ladder and down the wall A ha'penny loaf will serve us all’ Dancer A
‘And now we close our eyes’ Dancer E ‘And now we open our eyes and see a tiger’ Song ‘Tyger, Tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes On what wings dare he aspire What the hand dare seize the fire’ Dancer B ‘And now we close our eyes’ Dancer C ‘And now we open our eyes and see innocent lambs’ Song ‘Little lamb who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life and bid thee feed, Hilly bourne and sunny mead. Little lamb I'll tell thee Little lamb I'll tell thee’ Dancer D ‘And now we close our eyes’ Dancer A ‘And now we open our eyes and see a winged angel’ Song ‘Sing a song of sixpence A pocketful of rye Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie When the pie was opened The birds began to sing Now wasn't that a dainty dish To set before a king?
The king was in his counting-house Counting out his money The queen was in the parlour Eating bread and honey The maid was in the garden Hanging out the clothes When down came a blackbird And pecked off her nose She made such a commotion That little Jenny wren Flew down into the garden And popped it back again’ Dancers Encourage children to play birds and tigers Dancer D ‘Little Lamb Here I am Come and lick my white neck Let me pull your soft wool Let me kiss your soft face Little Lamb God bless thee, Little Lamb God bless thee Merrily, Merrily We welcome in the New year’ Dancer A ‘I am William Blake and I am a bird. I am a bird flying through the forest. I am William Blake and I am flying from leaf to leaf. I am William Blake and it is raining. And when it is raining I protect myself and my friends with leaves. We are flying through the forest..... and it is raining. I am William Blake flying from leaf to leaf. I am William Blake in the forest.... and I hear a Tyger. When the Tyger gets closer, I fly with my friends to the middle of the forest. I am William Blake flying through the forest from leaf to leaf. I am William Blake and I hear the Tyger in the forest. I am William Blake picking up the leaves I am a bird I am a leaf I am a tree’
Song ‘The sun doth arise And make happy the skies The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring. The skylark and thrush And the birds of the bush Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound And our sports shall be seen On the echoing green. They laugh at our play And then they all say "Such, such were the joys When we all girls and boys In our youth time were seen On the echoing green". Till the little ones weary No more can be merry The sun doth descend And our sport's at an end. Round the laps of their mothers Many sisters and brothers Like birds in their nest Are ready for rest And our sport's no more seen On the darkening green’ Midway through the song - Dancers – one after the other ‘I see them…’ (in ice cream, in my bed, in a cookie, in the sky, etc) Dancer E ‘I see them here, now, in the room’ Musician ‘I am William Blake. I am an artist. I mix my own colours. I have ready the best carpenter's glue, in a very clean glue pot. The art lies in mixing just the right amount of glue. Glue, glue, glooooo glooooo gloooooooo gloooooooo’ Musician
‘Little fly thy summers play my thoughtless hand has brushed away Am I not a fly like thee? Or art thou not a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing til some blind hand shall brush my my wing If thought is life and strength and breath and the wont of thought is death then am I a happy fly if I live or die’ Dancer D ‘My name is William Blake, and flies make me shake!’ Dancer B ‘My name is William Blake and I catch a butterfly’ Dancers ‘My name is William Blake and I catch a butterfly’ Dancer E leads groups through learning a song, line by line Song ‘I sing you one-o Green grow the rushes-o What is your one-o? One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so’ Dancer B and C ‘He sneaks through streets to feel the bark beneath his cheeks He is a leaf He climbs it's wooden arms, swings up, shelters This is where God makes raindrops he says This is where he bakes cakes. Heaven and earth on a branch You look with more than eyes, see more than eyes can see The world's a busy place with stinted sight The tree holds, leaves fall But they grow back’ Dancer A ‘My name is William Blake and I see a tree
Can you see a tree?’ Dancer A then asks the children questions about what the tree looks like (how tall, how wide, what colour, etc) ‘Let’s all make a tree What’s missing from the tree – leaves!’ Song ‘I sing you one-o Green grow the rushes-o What is your one-o? One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so I sing you two-o Green grow the rushes-o What is your two-o? Two, two the lilywhite boys Clothèd all in green-i-o One is one and all alone And evermore shall be do I sing you three-o Green grow the rushes-o What is your three-o? Three, three the rivals Two, two the lilywhite boys Clothèd all in green-i-o One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so I sing you four-o Green grow the rushes-o What is your four-o? Four for the Gospel makers Three, three the rivals Two, two the lilywhite boys Clothèd all in green-i-o One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so I sing you five-o Green grow the rushes-o What is your five-o? Five for the symbols at your door Four for the Gospel makers Three, three the rivals Two, two the lilywhite boys
Clothèd all in green-i-o One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so’
September 2012