Editing the Music for our production

We decied that the song 'The Dog Days are Over' is too long for our production so we asked the head of the music department in our school to help us cut out certain parts of the song.

The lines that are in bold are the chorus' and verses we have decided to cut out:

happiness, hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
With every bubble she sank with a drink
and washed it away down the kitchen sink

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming so you better run

Run fast for your mother run fast for your father
Run for your children and your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Can’t carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
the dog days are done
Can’t you hear the horsesCuz here they come

And I never wanted anything from you
Except everything you hadand what was left after that too. oh.

Happiness it hurt like a bullet in the mind
Struck from a great height
by someone who should know better than that
The dog days are over
The dog days are gone
can you hear the horses
Cuz here they come

Run fast for your mother and fast for your father
Run for your children for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Can’t carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are gone
Can you hear the horses because here they come


The dog days are over
The dog days are gone
Can you hear the horses because here they come

This has cut down the song by a significant amount which will make this production easier to complete in the time we have.