The Song
(Call and Response)
Leader:
Who treads the fields so neat and fine,
While masters boast and drink their wine?
Response:
Is he in heaven, Is he in hell?
You’ll never find the Pimpernel.
Leader:
Who slips away when night is deep,
While hounds and riders fail to keep?
Response:
Is he in heaven, Is he in hell?
You’ll never find the Pimpernel.
Leader:
Who laughs behind the mask of gold,
While chains are loosed and stories told?
Response:
Is he in heaven, Is he in hell?
You’ll never find the Pimpernel.
Leader:
Where will you find him, tell me true—
In cotton rows or morning dew?
Response:
Is he in heaven, Is he in hell?
You’ll never find the Pimpernel.
This is the beginning of an ambitious retelling of the Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.
Set in antebellum Kentucky, on a plantation refit by Percy Blakeney to run on steampunk machines designed by the people oppressed by the elite of the day.
Join me as Sir Percy fights alongside his Creole wife, Marguerite, against the establishment forces of a retired Andrew Jackson. Who will wear their mask best?