Oh tell me Where is it written it is I'm meant to be That I dare To have the chance to pick the fruit of ev'ry Or my share Of ev'ry sweet-imagined
[speaking]those are questions that women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think they're still asking today! I think that's what attracted me to yentl, and why I had I had to make the film...yentl, as some of you know, is the story of a in eastern europe at the turn of the century, when the world of study belonged only to men. but yentl's father, recogn Her thirst for knowledge, taught her secretly. and after his death, in order to her studies, she had had no choice, but go out into the world disguised as a man...
Papa, can you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you see me? Papa, can you me in the night? Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you help me not be at the skies, I seem to see a million eyes Which are yours? Where are you now yesterday Has waved goodbye and closed it's The is so much darker, The wind is so colder The world I see is so bigger Now that I'm Papa, please me Try to me Papa, don't you I had no choice? Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the night is filled with I remember you taught me Ev'ry I've ever read Can all the words in all the Help me to what lies ahead? The trees are so taller And I feel so smaller The moon is twice as And the stars are as bright Papa, how I you Papa, how I you Papa, how I you me goodnight... To go on with the story, em, yentl then meets a boy whom she falls in love with; but it turns out he's already in with another girl, but because of circumstances I can't go into now, they'r Vented from married. and to make a long story short, he asks yentl, who, of course, he thinks is a boy to marry the girl, so he can still see her - not yentl, the other girl! so, the gir The girl get married, and if you want to see how yentl got away with the wedding night, have to rent the video! it's just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story, it's very ni S! anyway, mmm, one night he comes to the house to study. but it's clear that the only thing he really wants to study is her...not yentl...her wife, her...get it? his eyes never leave her f .
Will someone look at me that way? See the way gaze at her, Like slaves they ev'ywhere she goes. Do my forget themselves And do I look at him And smile in a way That what I'm shows? I have the feeling ev'rybody knows And though it's crazy, Still I can't help wond'ring if I'll live to see that day by some miracle of miracles, He'll turn around and at me way...
A of sky Oh tell me Where is the someone who turn and look at me? And want to My ev'ry possibility? The more I - the more I learn. The I learn - the more I realize The I know. step I take - (papa, I've a voice now!)each page I - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I only means The I have to go. What's wrong with more? If you can fly - soar! With all is - why settle for Just a piece of Papa, I can you... Papa, I can see you... Papa, I can you... Papa, me fly! Papa, me fly!
[speaking]thank you! I'm glad you liked that! thank you! you! thank you! oh, that's great! thank you! this current administration has been beset by many problems. but, it's had many accomp Ents, a fact that sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you know? I it is easier to criticize than to praise! so, I'd like to sing this song tonight in celebration of every thing tha and possible in this great country of ours and around the world.