Consisting of four parts, "Rumors", "Arrival", "Deployment" and "Saturation", the suite tells of the Moles arriving in the city of the Chubs and immediately being exploited and disregarded by the Chubs.
Everyone was talking. "The moles are coming! The moles are coming!" Indeed they were, tens of thousands of them. It was so exciting. The chubs knew moles were peaceful creatures, even if the stories about Innisfree did still include hideous torture. Chubs would no longer have to make the long trip to the pit edge to glory in the romanticism of Innisfree's adventures. Other chubs, more practical in the ways of commerce, saw an easy way to cut the cost of labor. The moles will need jobs, they thought. The chub mines were on the verge of showing huge profits, they knew.
The hole-workers did arrive, they were cheered and pitied by the chubs who all thought their plight most exciting. The moles were expected to be full of new stories about Innisfree. Many were given jobs, a few were even given good jobs, but most were turned away. The working moles helped the less fortunate, but time would have to improve the situation if the hole-workers were going to survive.[1]
Lyrics[]
Rumors[]
Chub Woman:
I heard a rumor from the east
That the Pit Moles' battles with the beast
Have left them mindless and sick,
That west is where, their fingers say,
Are new found sites that give them something to cling to.
The rumors have them coming here
Believing life is not so harsh.
2nd Chub Woman:
Life not so harsh, indeed.
A hundred thousand refugees?
Chub Man:
The Pit Moles are coming, I heard just today;
Our problems with labor have just been done away with.
The Pit Moles will work hard and we'll barely pay;
So eager to get work, they'll do things just the way we want.
The Pit Moles are thrifty, their gods reassure
That poverty's blissful; they like being destitute.[1]
Deployment[]
Chub:
Need work?
Need work?
Sign here. Sign here.[1]
Saturation[]
Chub:
Sorry! That's all we need now.
Sorry! That's all we need.
No... No... No more work now.
The rest of you please leave.[1]
Dates Preview performance Santa Monica, April 10th 1982 America (October - April 1982) San Francisco, October 26th 1982 · San Francisco, October 27th 1982 · Los Angeles, October 29th 1982 · Los Angeles, October 30th 1982 · Pasadena, October 31st 1982 Europe (May - July 1983) Hannover, May 23rd 1983 · Vienna, May 25th 1983 · Vienna, May 26th 1983 · Munich, May 27th 1983 · Frankfurt, May 28th 1983 · Dusseldorf, May 29th 1983 · Berlin, May 30th 1983 · Copenhagen, June 1st 1983 · Hamburg, June 2nd 1983 · Bochum, June 3rd 1983 · Utrecht, June 4th 1983 · Brussels, June 5th 1983 · Utrecht, June 6th 1983 · Paris, June 7th 1983 · Lyon, June 8th 1983 · Bologna, June 12th 1983 · Milan, June 13th 1983 · Firenze, June 14th 1983 · Barcelona, June 17th 1983 · Valencia, June 18th 1983 · Madrid, June 19th 1983 · Madrid, June 20th 1983 · Madrid, June 21st 1983 · Bordeaux, June 23rd 1983 · Poitiers, June 24th 1983 · Birmingham, June 27th 1983 · London, June 28th 1983 · Liverpool, June 29th 1983 · Edinburgh, June 30th 1983 · Leicester, May 28th 1983 The Uncle Sam Mole Show Washington, D.C., October 7th 1983 (press conference)
