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 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.