barbra streisand
don't rain on my parade (reprise)
[the time has returned to the opening scene with fanny in her dressing room remembering her past. it's the day nick gets out of prison after eighteen months. fanny tells ziegfeld she's ready to give up performing if nick asks her. nick arrives and tells her he thinks they should split up. fanny is rocked but pretends this is what she feels also. nick leaves and fanny prepares to face the future without him:] i'll march my band out i'll beat my drum guess we didn't make it at least i didn't fake it. don't tell me not to live just sit and putter life's candy; the sun's a ball of butter. don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade. i'm gonna live and live now get what i want i know how all that the law will allow. hey gorgeous here we go again. well here it goes kid no lookin' back stiff upper nose kid let's give 'em hell brice we'll cry a little later well brice that's life in the the-a-ter! get ready for me world 'cause i'm a "comer," i simply gotta march my heart's a drummer. nobody no nobody is gonna rain on my parade.