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ENGINEER 1
If at first you don't succeed

GRANDPA
Give up!

ENGINEERS
No!

GRANDPA
Yes!

ENGINEERS
No!
Every bursted bubble has a glory!
Each abysmal failure makes a point!
Every glowing path that goes astray,
Shows you how to find a better way.
So every time you stumble never grumble.
Next time you'll bumble even less!

For up from the ashes, up from the ashes,
grow the roses of success!

Grow the roses!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!

Grow the roses!
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!

GRANDPA
Yes, I know but the Baron wants his car to float

ENGINEER
It will!

GRANDPA
And fly?

ENGINEERS
We failed before, we can fail again!
For every big mistake you make be grateful!
Here, here!
That mistake you'll never make again!
No sir!
Every shiny dream that fades and dies,
Generates the steam for two more tries!

GRANDPA
There's magic in the wake of a fiasco!

ENGINEERS
Correct!

GRANDPA
It gives you that chance to second guess!

ENGINEERS
Oh yes!

GRANDPA
Then up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success!

ENGINEERS
Grow the roses!
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!

GRANDPA
Alright then fellas, let's give it a bash!

*Approvals from engineers*

First of all lets try cranking the crankshaft

ENGINEER
CRANK THE CRANKSHAFT! HA HA HA HA HA

GRANDPA
Have you polished the big end?
That's it, keep going

*Explosion*
Don't give up now fellas,
Disaster didn't stymie Louis Pasteur!
Edison took years to see the light!
Alexander Graham knew failure well; he took a lot of knocks to ring that
bell!

ENGINEERS
So when it gets distressing it's a blessing!
Onward and upward you must press!
Yes, Yes, yes, yes, yes, … well maybe!
Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success.
Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes
Roses
Roses
Roses

Those rosy roses!
Roses
Roses

Roses
Roses
Roses
Roses

Grow the roses, grow the roses, rosy roses!
Roses
Grow the roses, grow the roses
Grow the…

Roses of success!
Grow the roses. Those rosy roses
From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!
Success!
Success!
Success!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!