Cast
Arthur - Rickie Sorenson
Merlin - Karl Swenson
Archimedes - Junius Matthews
Madam Mim/Granny Squirrel - Martha Wentworth
Sir Ector - Sebatian Cabot
Sir Pelinore - Alan Napier
Kay - Norman Alden
Little Squirrel - Ginny Tyler
USA - December 25, 1963
Japan - July 18, 1964
Mexico - December 10, 1964
Sweden - December 14, 1964
France - December 16, 1964
West Germany - December 17, 1964
Italy - December 23, 1964
Denmark - December 16, 1964
Norway - December 26, 1964
Finland - December 17, 1965
Spain - December 20, 1965
USA - December 22, 1972 (re-release)
Italy - December 14, 1973 (re-release)
Finland - April 16, 1976 (re-release)
West Germany - October 6, 1978 (re-release)
USA - March 11, 1983 (re-release)
USA - March 25, 1983 (re-release)
Norway - May 3, 2000 (re-release)
Academy Award - Nominee (Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment) 1964
Dutch - Merlijn de Tovenaar
French - Merlin l'Enchanteur
German - Die Hexe und der Zauberer/Merlin und Mim
Italian - La Spada nella Roccia
Spanish - Merlin el Encantador
Swedish - Svärdet i Stenen/Pysen, Trollkarlen och Svärdet
"Mad Madam Mim"
"Higitus! Figitus!"
"A Most Bedfuddling Thing"
"That's What Makes the World Go Round"
"The Sword in the Stone"
Higitus Figitus zumbabazing
I want your attention ev'rything!
We're packing to leave come on let's go
books are always the first you know
Hockety pockety wockety wack
abracabra dabra nack
Shrink in size very small
we've got to save enough room for all
Higitus Figitus migitus mum
pres-ti-dig-i-ton-i-um!
Cicero you belong to the "C's"
alphabethical order please
Ali-i-ca-fez bal-a-ca-zez
malacamez meripides
diminish diminish dictionary
those words in your vocabulary
Hockety pockety wockety wack
that's the way we have to pack.
Higitus Figitus migitus mum
pres-ti-dig-i-ton-i-um!
Higitus Figitus zoomacazam
don't get in a trafic jam
Sugar bowl you're getting rough
the poor old tea set's cracked enough
Hockety pockety wockety wack
odds and ends and bric a brac
Higitus Figitus migitus mum,
pres-ti-dig-i-ton-i-um.
Higitus Figitus migitus mum,
pres-ti-dig-i-ton-i-um!
With only a touch
I have the power
zim zaba rim bim
to wither a flower
I find delight in the gruesome and grim
'Cause I'm the magnificent, marvelous, mad Madam Mim
I can be huge
fill a whole house
I can be tiny,
small as a mouse
black sorcery is my dish of tea
it comes easy to me 'cause I'm the
magnificent, marvelous, mad Madam Mim!
I can be beautiful, lovely and fair
Silvery voice, long purple hair
la la la la la, la la la la la
la la la la la
but it's only skin deep
for zim zaberim zim
I'm an ugly old creep
Magnificent, marvelous, mad, mad, mad, mad Madam Mim!
It's a state of being, a frame of mind
It's a most befuddling thing
And to every being of every kind
It is discombooberating
You're wasting time resisting
You'll find the more you do
The more she'll keep insisting
Her him has
got to be you
It's a rough game anyone knows
There are no rules, anything goes
There's no logical explanation
For this discombooberation
It's a most bemuddling, most befuddling thing
There's no sensible explanation
For this discombooberation
It's a most hodge-podgical
Most illogical
Most confusiling
Most bemuddling
Most befuddling
Thing!
A legend is sung of when England was young
And knights were brave and bold
The good king had died
And no one could decide
Who was rightful heir to the throne
It seemed that the land would be torn by a war
Or saved by a miracle alone
And that miracle appeared in London town
The sword in the stone.
"That's What Makes the World Go Round"
Left and right
Like day and night
That's what makes the world go round
In and out
Thin and stout
That's what makes the world go round
For every up there is a down
For every square there is a round
For every high there is a low
For every to there is a fro
To and fro
Stop and go
That's what makes the world go round
You must set your sights upon the heights
Don't be a mediocrity
Don't just wait and trust to fate
And say, that's how it's meant to be
It's up to you how far you go
If you don't try you'll never know
And so my lad as I've explained
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
You see my boy it's nature's way
Upon the weak the strong ones prey
The human life it's also true
The strong will try to conquer you
That is what you must expect
Unless you use your intellect
Brains and brawn, weak and strong
That's what makes the world go round