Muppet Christmas Carol - Marley And Marley
Marley and Marley is a song from The Muppet Christmas Carol.
The ghosts sing about how they were confined with chains after death, relating their many crimes and warning Scrooge that he will share the same fate if he doesn't change his ways.
Lyrics[]
Jacob Marley: It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men.
Robert Marley: And if that spirit goes not forth in life, he is condemned to do so after death.
Jacob Marley: To witness what he can not share, but might have shared and turned to happiness.
Both: We're Marley and Marley. Avarice and greed.
Jacob Marley: We took advantage of the poor. Just ignored the needy.
Both: We specialized in causing pain, spreading fear and doubt.
Robert Marley: And if you could not pay the rent, we simply threw you out.
There was the year we evicted the entire orphanage!
Jacob Marley: I remember the little tykes all standing in the snow bank.
Robert Marley: With their little frostbitten teddy bears!
Both: (laugh) (shudder)
Both: We're Marley and Marley. Our hearts were painted black.
Jacob Marley: We should have known our evil deeds would put us both in shackles
Both: Captive, bound, we're double-ironed, exhausted by the weight
Jacob Marley: As freedom comes from giving love
Robert Marley: So, prison comes with hate
Both: We're Marley and Marley
Ghosts: Whoooooo
Both: We're Marley and Marley
Ghosts: Whoooooo
Waldorf: True, there was something about mankind we loved
Jacob Marley: I think it was their money!
Both: (laugh)
Both: Doomed, Scrooge! You're doomed for all time!
Waldorf: Your future is a horror story, written by your crime
Both: Your chains are forged by what you say and do.
Ghosts: So, have your fun; when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
Waldorf: Funny?
Jacob Marley: Money?
Both: We're Marley and Marley.
Ghosts: Whoooooo.
Both: We're Marley and Marley.
Ghosts: Whoooooo.
Both: We're Marley and Marley and now it's time to part.
Robert Marley: To go back where they keep our kind.
Jacob Marley: The wretched and the heartless.
Robert Marley: The news we shared has got you scared.
Jacob Marley: We're glad that we got through.
Robert Marley: So make amends.
Jacob Marley: And make some friends.
Both: The future's up to you!
(instrumental break)
Both: We're Marley and Marley.
Ghosts: Whoooooo.
Both: We're Marley and Marley
Ghosts: Whoooooo.
Both: We're Marley and Marley
Ghosts: Whoooooo.
Both: Change!
Diesel's Ghostly Christmas[]
Trivia[]
- In Diesel's Ghostly Christmas, it is sung by , who are pretending to be ghosts, along with Emily, by Princess Twilight's ghostly spell. The 2 "ghosts" sing about how they were confined with chains after death, relating their many crimes and warning Diesel that he will share the same fate if he doesn't change his ways and be a very helpful engine.