Lily the Musical

Words and Music by

John Clarke Palmer*

FIRST ACT

1 Here I Stand – RICK (old)

2 Waiting – RICK (young)

3 I Will Make You Wealthy – DAVE

4 People are Suffering – LILY

5 Everywhere I Go – LILY & RICK

6 Lovin’ in London Town – RICK

7 We are Called to Take Action – LILY’s FATHER

8 You’re Everything to Me – LILY, RICK & FATHER

9 No I Can’t – RICK

10 It is War – LILY

SECOND ACT

11 Modern Living - RICK

12 Eye Candy – LILY

13 Talking Like That – DAVE & RICK

14 Let’s just get High – DAVE & RICK

15 You Sent Your Daughter – THE PROSECUTOR

16 Moving in Shadows - LILY’s FATHER

17 The Fruit of the Revolution – LILY

18 O Mother – RICK

19 Have it All – RICK’s MOTHER

20 Nobody - LILY

21 Here are Ghosts – RICK (old)

Duration 38:40 mins

CAST in order of appearance

THE NARRATOR - Jenny Palmer

RICK (young and old) - John Clarke Palmer

DAVE (Rick’s agent and manager) - Phil King

LILY - Blythe Pepino

LILY’s FATHER - Pete Ev

THE PROSECUTOR - Hywel Dowsell

RICK’s MOTHER - Diana Mitchell

MUSIC PRODUCTION

Recorded and produced by John Clarke Palmer in his studio.

All guitars, basses, keyboards and drums played by John Clarke Palmer with the addition of authentic Cuban percussion played by Yosmany Gonzalez Garcia on tracks 1, 5, 6, 10, 15 & 19 (Guest vocalists recorded themselves remotely and emailed their contributions in due to lockdown restrictions)

Backing Vocals sung by Blythe Pepino and John Clarke Palmer

Narration script developed by Jenny Palmer and John Clarke Palmer with additional story consultation by LL Bowden

*Music on track 18 by Sir Arthur Sullivan

The Story

Lily is a young environment activist who wants to change the world for the better. She meets up with Rick, a naive aspiring guitar player and against her better judgement she falls for his boyish charm. However Lily is under the influence of her father who is a dangerous radical who wants her to carry out industrial sabotage overseas. When Rick finds all this out a disastrous chain of events follows