Tommy
Scene 7: 22 Heathfield Gardens
(Uncle Ernie is met at the door by Mrs. Walker, who is
getting ready to go out with Mr. Walker for the evening.
As Ernie sinks into the sofa, Mrs. Walker anxiously goes
on dressing in the bedroom.)
Do You Think It's Alright
Mrs Walker:
Do you think it's alright
To leave the boy with Uncle Ernie?
Do you think it's alright?
He's had a few too many tonight!
Do you think it's alright?
Mr. Walker:
I think it's alright.
Yes I think it's alright
Mrs Walker
D'you think it's alright?
Yes I think it's alright
( Uncle Ernie sprawls drunkenly on the sofa
next to
Tommy who's rocking back and forth. The Walkers
kiss Tommy goodnight and walk out the door.)
Mrs Walker
Do you think it's alright
To leave the boy with Uncle Ernie?
There's something about this
I really don't like! Mr. Walker:
Do you think it's alright?
I think it's alright.
D'you think it's alright? Yes I think it's alright
Yes I think it's alright
(Still sitting on the sofa next to Tommy, Uncle Ernie
doesn't touch him, hardly looks at him. He only
glances over occasionally to make sure that Tommy
can't hear or understand him.)
Fiddle about
Uncle Ernie:
I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie
I'm glad you won't see or hear me
As I fiddle about,
Fiddle about
Fiddle about!
Your mother left me here to mind you
Now I'm doing what I want to…
Fiddling about,
Fiddling about,
Fiddle about!
Down with the bedclothes,
Up with the nightshirt!
Fiddle about
Fiddle about
Fiddle about!
Ensemble:
Fiddle about
Fiddle about
Fiddle about!
Uncle Ernie:
You won't shout as I fiddle about.
(Ernie picks Tommy up and carries him to the
bed which begins to spin demonically.)
Uncle Ernie & Ensemble:
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle
Fiddle!
(There is the sound of a slamming door and
everything stops. The Walkers have come back.
Uncle Ernie rushes through the bedroom door, finger
to his lips to hush them, and leaves. Tommy crosses
to the front of the room past his parents to stare at
himself in the mirror. The 10 year old Tommy suddenly
sees his older self in the mirror.)
See me, Feel
Me (reprise)
(Everything else fades into darkness and all we see
is the ten-year old Tommy gazing at the older
Tommy in the wardrobe mirror.)
Tommy (to 10 year old Tommy)
See me, feel me,
Touch me, heal me,
See me, feel me,
Touch me, heal me.
