Scene 1 

(cotton eyed joe starts playing before the scene starts)  

Ensamble:  
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 

I'd been married a long time ago 

 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 

 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 

I'd been married a long time ago 

 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
 He came to town like a midwinter storm 
 
He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong 
 
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun 
 
But all he had come for was having some fun 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
I'd been married a long time ago 

 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
 I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
He brought disaster wherever he went 
 
The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent 
 
They all ran away so nobody would know 
 
And left only men 'cause of Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 

 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe 
 
I'd been married a long time ago 
 
Where did you come from, where did you go? 
 
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? 
 
 
 
Jonas:  
 Here’s your water sir, do you need more time to look over your 
menu? 
 
Sir:  
Uh yes please 
 
Jonas:  
Okay i'll be over when your ready 
 
Sir:  
Okay thank you 
 
(Jonas walks away and goes to another table as the left spotlight 
turns off and the right turns on to show a kid in a red nike hoodie 
and jeans with headphones in, walking on the sidewalk with his eyes 
closed while singing out loud to the tune of cotton eyed joe. The 
lights switch back and we see Jonas taking orders.) 
 
Jonas:  
Ma’am, i already told you, we don't sell, spaghetti-” 
 
Boss:  
Jonas I’ll take care of this, you go take out the trash for me 
 
Jonas:  
Yes, sir, good luck 
 
Boss:  
I’ll need it 
  
(Jonas goes to take out the trash and as she walks out of the 
restaurant, the right spotlight turns on so that the audience can see 
the entire stage. The ambulance made of a shopping cart, and 
drywood hits the boy. Jonas sees this and rushes over to see if 
there’s anyway she can help.) 
  
Jonas:  
Is he okay?! 
 
Paramedic:  
He just seems unconscious, but we should take him in just in case  
 
Jonas:  
Okay well 
 
(Jonas’s help was cut short by a woman yelling what seemed to be 
the kids name.) 
 
Woman:  
Johnny! 
 
(The woman ran over to the boy and cradled him before crying and 
introducing herself too as karen.) 
 
Karen:  
My name is Karen! That boy is my son!   
 
 (the paramedics got the boy into the ambulance as Karen followed, 
still crying and screaming hysterically. By now johnny was already 
awake and yelling at his mom to calm down because she’s 
“embarrassing” him) 
 
Jonas:  
Huh alright. Time to go home I guess 
 
Scene 2 
(stage goes to switch to the left light to show a dinner table in a 
kitchen with jonas and her family eating dinner and talking jonas’s 
mom just got done talking to her dad when the conversation switched 
to jonas) 
Matt:  
Guess whos home? 
 
Jonas:  
shut up dad 
 
Jill: 
Don't talk to your father like that 
 
Jonas: 
Yeah yeah alright 
 
Matt:  
So how was work, Jonas? 
 
Jonas: 
 It was fine ya know? 
 
Matt: 
Ah yeah I’m sure 
 
Jill: 
Take your shoes off you’re making the carpet dirty 
 
Jonas: 
Mom its fine  
 
Matt: 
Don't talk to your mother like that. But seriously why do we have 
to take our shoes off its kinda dumb 
 
(jill then smacked matt with a spatula and Jonas ran upstairs 
laughing. She then went to her desk to do some of her homework.) 
 
Jonas: well im hungry 
 
(she went downstairs to find food because she hungry. She found 
cheez itz s and the souls of the innocent which was the name of a 
cereal) 
 
Matt: no we cant eat just yet.   
Its not dinner and your mom would kill us 
 
 
Jonas: 
 no it’s fine everything’s fine 
 
Jill:  
its time to eat! 
  
Matt: 
Alright finally! 
 
Jonas: 
Yesssssssssssssssss 
 
Matt:  
you sound like a snake 
 
Jonas: 
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 
 
Jill:  
alright you two 
 
Matt:  
Ugh work sucked. People are so ignorant 
 
Jill: 
Yes i know 
 
(jonas laughs) 
 
Matt: 
I mean it! We almost killed a patient because someone put ginger 
ale inside of the IV 
 
Jill:  
Well I’m sure you'll get the figured out honey. Jonas? How was 
your day?   
 
(jonas put her fork down to continue the conversation) 
 
Jonas:  
It was fine. I saw a kid get hit with a bus today. 
 
(jonas dad choked on his drink while her mom almost spat out her 
taco) 
 
Matt: 
Well, that was unfortunate what happened? 
 
Jonas:  
I don't know i was taking out the trash and he just got hit with an 
ambulance. His mom came over and went with him to the hospital. 
He seemed okay though. 
 
Jill: 
Well we’ll pray for him at church in a few days 
 
Matt:  
Yes that’d be nice 
 
(they finished eating and jonas and her mom started to wash the 
dishes. They sang their family song, “it’s raining tacos”) 
Jonas: 
It's raining tacos 
Matt: 
From out of the sky 
Jill: 
Tacos, No need to ask why 
Jonas and matt: 
Just open your mouth and close your eyes 
Matt, jonas, and jill: 
It's raining tacos 
Raining tacos 
out in the street 
Tacos 
All you can eat 
Lettuce and shell 
cheese and meat 
 It's raining tacos 
jonas: 
Yum Yum, Yum Yum Yumity Yum 
matt: 
It's like a dream!!! 
jonas: 
Yum Yum, Yum Yum Yummity Yum 
jill: 
Bring your sour cream!!! 
matt: 
Shell 
jonas: 
Meat 
jill: 
Lettuce 
Mat, jonas, jill 
Cheese 
(clap clap clap clap clap clap clap) 
 matt 
Shell 
jonas: 
Meat 
jill: 
Lettuce 
Jonas, matt, jill: 
Cheese 
Shell 
Meat 
Cheese Cheese Cheese Cheese Cheese 
jonas: 
It's raining tacos...  
Matt, jill: 
(ohhoo) 
jonas: 
Raining tacos.  
Matt, jill: 
(ohhoo) 
jonas: 
Raining Tacos!!!  
 Matt, jill 
(ohhoo!!) 
jonas: 
(It's raining Tacos) 
Matt, jill 
(raining tacos) 
(raining tacos) 
(raining tacos) 
jonas: 
Raining tacos  
Jill, matt 
(shell meat lettuce cheese) 
jonas 
Raining tacos  
Matt, jill 
(cheese cheese cheese cheese) 
Jonas: 
It's raining.. 
Matt, jill. 
(raining tacos...) 
 
(the left side goes black and the right switches to charlie riding his 
bike along the sidewalk with a backpack. We then see the left stage 
lights turn on to show jonas closing her door and running along the 
 same path when she dropped a book. She went to pick it up but 
charlie didn’t see so they crashed into each other) 
 
Scene 3 
 
Charlie: ow 
(he rubbed his head as he pushed the bike off of himself 
 
Jonas: are you kidding me? 
(she got up and looked at her clothes to see they were covered in dirt 
and tire tracks) 
 
Charlie: why are you yelling at me? You're the one who didn't 
realise that you were standing in the middle of the street! 
 
(charlie got up and jonas got angrier) 
 
Jonas: your the biker! You should’ve seen me! 
 
Charlie: yeah well maybe you- 
(charlie was cut off by a neighbor opening their front door) 
 
Neighbor: Hey! You kids! I called the cops on you hoodlums! 
 
(Jonas and Charlie stared at the man for a bit of time but went back 
to bickering and fighting) 
 
Charlie: stop yelling at me! You should’ve at least looked before 
crouching down to grab a dumb book! 
  
Jonas: i'm a pedestrian! Im allowed to! It's your fault! 
 
Jonas: 
You made a fool of me 
But them broken dreams have got to end 
Charlie: 
Hey, woman, you got the blues 
'Cause you ain't got no one else to use 
There's an open road that leads nowhere, 
So just make some miles between here and there 
Jonas: 
There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in 
You took my body and played to win 
Charlie: 
Ha, ha, woman, it's a cryin' shame 
But you ain't got nobody else to blame. 
Evil woman, evil woman, evil woman, 
 Evil woman. 
Jonas: 
Rolled in from another town 
Hit some gold, too hot to settle down 
But a fool and his money soon go separate ways 
And you found a fool lyin' in a daze 
Charlie: 
Ha, ha, woman, what you gonna do? 
Jonas: 
You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you 
Charlie: 
Jonas: 
It's so good that you're feelin' pain 
But you better get your face on board the very next train. 
Charlie: 
Evil woman, evil woman, evil woman, 
(You're an evil woman) evil woman. 
Evil woman, evil woman, evil woman, 
 (You're an evil woman) evil woman. 
Evil woman, how you done me wrong 
But now you're tryin' to wail a different song 
Jonas: 
Ha, ha, funny how you broke me up, 
You made the wine, now you drink a cup 
I came runnin' every time you cried 
Thought I saw love smilin' in your eyes 
Ha, ha, very nice to know 
That you ain't got no place left to go. 
 
Charlie: 
Evil woman, evil woman, evil woman, 
(You're an evil woman) evil woman 
Evil woman, evil woman, 
(You're an evil woman) evil woman 
(Such an evil woman) evil woman 
Evil woman (you're an evil woman) 
Evil woman (such an evil woman) 
Evil woman... 
 
  
 
(before long the cops came to see what was going on) 
 
Officer duke: alright i want both of you to put your hands behind 
your backs and to lean on the hood of this car here 
 
(jonas sighed and listened to the officer by walking over to the police 
car and put her hands behind her back, while charlie looked at the 
officer like he’d just thrown a rock at a baby sparrow) 
 
Charlie: are you kidding me? Why are you arresting me too? 
 
Officer duke: hey boy, stop being a pest and get on the hood 
 
(charlie groans and obeyed the cop) 
 
Officer duke: alright what are your names? 
 
Jonas: Jonas Berkhimer 
 
Charlie: Charlie Quartez 
 
Officer Duke: alright. Jonas, charlie, you both are under arrest for 
disturbance of the peace 
 
(left lights turn on to show the jail cell where jonas and charlie are 
sitting, ignoring each other. The right lights turn on to show the 
other side of the bars 
  
Scene 4 
 
Officer Duke: alright kids, I’m officer Duke, and you kids are lucky 
because no one seems to want to press charges. We’ve called your 
parents and Jonas is it? They said that they'd be here straight away. 
As for Charlie, I couldn’t seem to contact yours.   
 
(Charlie glances down and then looks back at the officer) 
 
Jonas: How long will we be here for? 
 
Charlie