Vanessa Williams A Healthy Normal American boy Lyrics:
From Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack

(Reporters asking questions-spoken) Reporter 1:
How does Conrad feel about going into the army?
JA: How does he feel? You ask how he feels. He's
much too shy to tell you so I'll tell you how he
feels. He feels brave and eager, strangely humble.
Proud to be a plain G.I. VW: He would gladly, face
those bullets, for he's not afraid to die. ch: For
he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal
American boy. JA (spoken): And that's why he
volunteered. Reporter 2 (spoken): Volunteered? I
heard he appealed 3 times! VW (spoken):Sing! ch:
We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you
Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not near
us, we're blue/ OH Conrad we love you. Reporter 3
(spoken): What's the picture on you and that
Hollywood star? Are you two engaged? VW (spoken):
Is he engaged? Is Conrad engaged? There's
absolutely nothing to the rumor he's engaged. JA:
She's a real pal., like a sister, but it doens't
mean a thing. And that 18 karat diamond, it was
just a friendship ring. ch: For he's a fine
abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy.
Reporter 4 (spoken): Then why was her husband so
mad? JA (spoken): Sing! ch: We love you Conrad, oh
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yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true.
JA (spoken): Why, I'll never forget Conrad's first
word's when he heard he'd been accepted into the
armed forces. 'Gee Mr. Peterson' he cried eagerly,
'Do you think they'll assign me to one of those
frontline trenches (army talk here I don't know
what they're saying) Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it
true you found Conrad in a reform school? VW &
JA: That is a lie. A lie through and through. I'll
tell you where he came from here's the story and
it's true. VW: He was born in Indo-China. JA: He
was born in old Virginia VW: Son of missionaries
there. JA: On a thousand acre farm. VW: Very poor
and very hungry JA: From a line of wealthy
planters. VW: What a cruel life to bear. JA: (I
can't understand this part but it's something to
do with being rich I'm guessing) VW: Then he
drifted down to Hong Kong JA: (More stuff I don't
get) VW: In a waterfront saloon. JA: In the
moonlight he would croon. VW: That is where we
heard him singing. JA: That's where Conrad started
singing. VW: 'neath that diry Hong Kong moon JA:
'neath that old plantation moon. (while VW and JA
sing "America", chorus sings the conrad
theme song-it's all one big integrated mess) ch:
We love you COnrad, oh yes we do, we love you
Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not near
us, we're blue. Oh Conrad we love you. VW & JA
(over chorus): Oh beautiful for spaceious skies
for amber waves of grain. America, America, g-d
shed his grace on thee. All: For he's a fine
abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy.
Lyrics: A Healthy Normal American boy, Vanessa Williams [end]