Day One

"**Day One**" refers to a compilation of songs into one on *Groundhog Day The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)*. It features the first versions of "Small Town, U.S.A.", "Punxsutawney Phil" and "February 2nd"/"There Will Be Sun".

## Chronology

### Next

"Punxsutawney Phil"

"**Small Town, U.S.A.**" is the second song of Act One of *Groundhog Day*.

### Lyrics

**[CLOCK RADIO JINGLE]**

Who is that? (who is that?!)

Emerging from his burrow?

Who can see today what we won't see until tomorrow?

Shaman of the shadows!

**[JINGLE & MALE RADIO DJ]**

Springer of the spring!

**[MALE RADIO DJ]**

*Come on!*

**[JINGLE & MALE RADIO DJ]**

Is it a squirrel?!

Is it a beaver?!

Kinda both, but not quite either!

**[MALE RADIO DJ]**

*That's right woodchuck chuckers, it's -*

**[RADIO DJS]**

*Groundhog Day!*

**[MALE RADIO DJ]**

*We're here live from Gobbler's Knob talking about everything: weather -*

**[FEMALE RADIO DJ]**

*Predictions*

**[MALE RADIO DJ]**

*Temperature -*

**[FEMALE RADIO DJ]**

*The weather -*

**[MALE RADIO DJ]**

*It's just nuts!*

**[FEMALE RADIO DJ]**

*Totally whacky!*

**[MALE RADIO DJ]**

*That's our town on February 2nd.*

**[FEMALE RADIO DJ]**

*I mean what could crazier than groundhogs in February?*

**[RECEPTIONIST]**

*Good morning, this is your wakeup call.*

**[PHIL CONNORS]**

*Thank you.*

**[RECEPTIONIST]**

*Happy Groundhog Day!*

**[PHIL]**

*Yeah, happy Groundhog Day.*

Lumpy bed, ugly curtains,

Pointless erection

Dried flowers, damp towels,

No reception

Small towns, tiny minds,

Big mouths, small ideas

Shallow talk, deep snow,

Cold fronts, big rears

One bar, one store, one clock

One diner, one bank, one cop

I mean, what’s not to like in a quaint little place like this?

Who doesn't dig a crocheted pillowcase like this?

Watercolors of bucolic vistas

Painted by octogenarian spinsters,

And all of the people just getting together

For relentless analysis of the weather

Their dumb superstitions and vacuous chat –

I swear there was a pack of Xanax in this jacket

You couldn't pay me to stay here one more night,

Swear that there is no check you could write that might

Tempt me to stay and wake up in the morning in –

**[CLOCK RADIO]**

Punxsutawney

Ba-da-bup-bup-ba-da-da-ba-dup

**[PHIL]**

There's nothing more depressing than

Small Town U.S.A.

And small don't come much smaller than

Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day

**[CLOCK RADIO]**

Ba-da-bup-bup-ba-da-da-ba-dup

There's nothing more depressing than | **[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

**[PHIL & TOWNSPEOPLE]**

Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day!

**[PHIL]**

I've not a bad word to say about small towns per se,

They're nice for an hour, or at a stretch half a day

And they're perfect for a stop-off on your way,

On your way to somewhere else...

Pretty much anywhere else

And I've no qualm at all with your small-town people,

I admire their balls, getting out of bed at all

To face another day in a shit-hole this small,

All haystacks and horses where there should be golf courses

And one bar, one store, one clock

One diner, one bank, one cop

How can they bear it, to live in a place like this?

Separate from the whole human race like this?

One little store selling plaid shirts and rakes, and it's

Huntin' and fishin' and half-pounder steaks and if

I have a hope of a better career than this,

This is the last time I’m broadcasting here, Jesus

I have been forecasting too many years

To be talking to hicks about magical beavers!

When I'm done, gonna call up the station

And tell them I'm through with this crap

And never again will I wake in the morning in...

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

Punxsutawney

Is a little town with a heart as big as any town

As any small town in the U.S.A.

And there is no town greater than

Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day

**[PHIL]**

Tomorrow I'll wake and I’ll call up the station

And tell them I’m not coming back!

And never again will I wake in the morning in –

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

Every morning I wake to the dawning of –

**[PHIL]**

Never again will I wake in the morning in –

**[PHIL & TOWNSPEOPLE]**

Punxsutawney!

## Chronology

### Next

"February 2nd"/"There Will Be Sun"

"**Punxsutawney Phil**" is the third song of Act One of *Groundhog Day*.

### Lyrics

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

Who is that? (who is that?!)

Emerging from his burrow?

Who can see today what we won't see until tomorrow?

Shaman of the shadows!

Springer of the spring!

Is it a squirrel?! Is it a beaver?!

Kinda both, but not quite either!

All the meteorologists the world has ever known

Cannot match this little guy's uncanny skill

We can guess but we won't know

If we should dress for sun or snow

Until we hear it from ol' Punxsutawney Phil

**[BUSTER]**

Every year for a hundred years

We've bent our heads and lent our ears

To listen to his famed prognostication

Lucky for you, I speak with ease

Both Engerlish and Groundhog-ese!

Please stand-by for imminent translation

**[ELDERS]**

This brown log contain-eth

One groundhog, the famous

Phillip of Punxsutawney

The gifted sniffer of future mornings

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

The nest specimen you will find

Of Rodentia: Sciuridae

Our own uncanny whistle-pig

The ground-est hog that ever lived

A hundred years and he is still

The pride of Punxsutawney!

The prophet of PA!

Prognosticatin' Punxsutawney Phil!

Who is that? (who is that?!)

Emerging from his burrow?

Who can see today what we won't see until tomorrow?

Shaman of the shadows!

Springer of the spring!

Is it a squirrel?! Is it a beaver?!

Kinda both, but not quite either!

All the meteorologists the world has ever known

Cannot match this little guy's uncanny skill

We can guess but we won't know

If we should dress for sun or snow

Until we hear it from ol' Punxsutawney Phil

**[BUSTER]**

*Punxsutawney Phil, seer of seers, prognosticator of prognosticators, has declared in Groundhog-ese that he did indeed see his shadow!*

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

*Ohhhhhh.*

**[BUSTER]**

*Six more weeks of winter!*

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

*Awwwwwww! Yaaaaaay!*

All the meteorologists the world has ever known

Cannot match this little guy's uncanny skill

We can guess but we won't know

If we should dress for sun or snow

Until we hear it from ol' Punxsutawney Phil

## Chronology

### Next

"Small Town, U.S.A."

"**February 2nd**"/"**There Will Be Sun**" (the first half previously titled "**Second of the Second**" in the London production) is the fourth song of Act One of *Groundhog Day*.

### Lyrics

**[TOWNSPEOPLE]**

Tomorrow, spring will come (spring will come), and then

There will be (there will be) blue skies, my friend,

Bright eyes and laughter

Tomorrow, there will be sun

But if not tomorrow,

Perhaps the day aaaaaaaaaaaahhh –