ELDER PRICE
You all know the Bible
Is made of testaments old and new
You’ve been told it’s just those two parts,
Or only one if you’re a Jew.
But what if I were to tell you –
There’s a fresh third part out there
Which was found by a hip new prophet
Who had a little…
Donny Osmond flair?
Have you heard of the All-American
Prophet?
The blonde-haired blue-eyed voice
of God!
He didn’t come from the Middle East
Like those other holy men
No, God’s favorite prophet was
All-American!
I’m gonna take you back to Biblical
times, 1823. An American man named
Joe livin’ on a farm in the Holy Land
of Rochester, New York!
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
You mean the Mormon prophet
Joseph Smith?!
ELDER PRICE
That’s right! That young man spoke
to God!
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
He spoke to God?!
ELDER PRICE
And God said, ‘Joe
People really need to know
That the Bible isn’t TWO parts
There’s a part three to The Bible, Joe!
And I, God, have anointed you –
To dig up this part three
Which is buried by a tree
On a hill in your backyard!’
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
Wow! God says go to your backyard
and start digging, that makes perfect
sense!
ELDER PRICE
Joseph Smith went up on that hill
And he dug where he was told!
Deep in the ground, Joseph found
Shining plates of gold!
JOSEPH SMITH
What are these golden plates?
Who buried them here and why?
ELDER PRICE
Then appeared an angel –
His name was Moro-ni!
OFF STAGE VOCALS
Ahhhhh –
MORONI
I am Moroni…
The All-American angel!
My people lived here long,
Long ago!
This is a history of my race
Please read the words within
We were Jews who met with Christ.
But we were
All-American
But don’t let anybody see
These plates except for you…
They are only for you to see…
Even if people ask you to show
the plates to them.
Don’t.
Just copy them on to normal paper.
Even though this might
make them question
If the plates are real or not…
This is sort of what God is
going for…
ELDER PRICE
Joseph took the plates home
And wrote down what he found
inside.
He turned those plates into a book,
Then rushed into town and cried:
JOSEPH SMITH
Hey! God spoke to me and gave me
This blessed ancient tome
He hath commanded me to publish it
And stick it in ev’ry home.
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
Wow! So the Bible is actually a trilogy,
and Book of Mormon is Return Of The
Jedi?! I’M interested.
ELDER PRICE
Now, many people didn’t BELIEVE the
prophet Joseph Smith. They thought
he’d made up this part three
That was buried by a tree
On a hill in his backyard.
TOWNSPEOPLE
Liar!
ELDER PRICE
But Joe said-
JOSEPH SMITH
This is no lie,
I speak to God all the time
And he’s told me to head west!
So I’ll take my part three
From the hill with the tree,
Feel free if you’d like to come along
with me
To the promised land!
TOWNSPEOPLE
The PROMISED LAND?!
JOSEPH SMITH
Paradise!
On the west coast!
Nothing but fruit and fields
As far as the eye can see!
ALL
Have you heard of
The All-American prophet?
He found a brand-new book about
Jesus Christ!
We’re following him to paradise,
We call ourselves Mormon,
And our new religion is –
All-American.
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
How much does it all cost?
ELDER PRICE
The Mormons kept on searching
For that place to settle down
But ev’ry time they thought they
found it
They got kicked out of town
And even though people wanted
To see the golden plates
Joseph never showed ‘em!
GOTSWANA
I have maggots in my scrotum.
ELDER PRICE
Um, okay… Well anyway –
ELDER PRICE
Now comes the part of our story
That gets a little bit sad.
On the way to the promised land,
Mormons made people mad.
Joseph was shot by an angry mob
And knew he’d soon be done
JOSEPH SMITH
You must lead the people now,
My good friend Brigham Young.
Oh God why are you letting
me die
Without having me show people
the plates?
They’ll have no proof I was
telling the truth or not
They’ll have to believe it just cuz.
Oh.
I guess that’s kind of what you
were going for.
Blargggh…
ELDER PRICE
The prophet Joseph Smith died
for what he believed in. But his
followers, they kept heading west.
And Brigham Young led them
to paradise. A sparkling land in
Utah they named Salt Lake City.
And there the Mormons
multiplied! And made big
Mormon families!! Generation
to generation until finally…they
made ME!!! And now it’s my
JOB, TO LEAD YOU WHERE
THOSE EARLY SETTLERS
WERE LED SO LONG AGO!!!
TOWNSPEOPLE & PRICE
& CUNNINGHAM
Have you heard of the
All-American prophet?
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
Kevin Price!
TOWNSPEOPLE & PRICE
& CUNNINGHAM
The next in line to be the voice
of God?!
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
My best friend!
TOWNSPEOPLE & PRICE
& CUNNINGHAM
He’s gonna do something
incredible!
And be Joseph Smith again!
Cuz’ Kevin Price the prophet is
All, all, all,
All-American! –
ELDER CUNNINGHAM
And if you order now we’ll also
Throw in a set of steak knives!
ALL
All-American!
- 专辑：The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- 歌手：Robert Lopez
- 歌曲：All-American Prophet
