The Chocolate Song

from Journeys by Story Theatre

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One of the true stories depicted in our show was the journey of Joachim Esteraicher, the great-great-grandfather of one of the cast members. Joachim lived with his family in Katowice (now a part of Poland). In 1914, he decided to open a chocolate store. He ordered a wagon full of chocolate from Switzerland and waited for it to arrive. But then WWI broke out, and the wagon got stuck somewhere on the way. Joachim decided to go and look for it - and found it Prague. Since it was impossible to get the wagon to back to Katowice, Joachim and his family resettled and started his chocolate business there.

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JOACHIM:
The only lighthouse in these foggy times
The only seed of hope
The only drop of dreams left in my mind
The only chance we’ll cope
Is somewhere on the way
Between now and good old days
The only touch of sweet taste on this bitter plate

COMPANY
How do you find a black horse in the dark
A needle in the hay
I have already given all I’ve got
How come there’s more to pay?
It’s not what we had planned
But there’s no on the other hand
The only touch of sweet taste in a foreign land

JOACHIM:
Somewhere on the railroad in a village or a little town
With some luck and a bit of courage we shall get there safe and sound
Maybe in a city or maybe in the middle of a battlefield
But I won’t ’rest until we find it, I won’t yield

COMPANY
The only lighthouse...

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JOACHIM:
Well I can't move a mountain, can I? So what to say? This is it.
Let’s see how we begin, let’s save the day.

SON:
Let’s have some chocolate!

JOACHIM:
Not exactly our dream
But those hundred towers gleam
Across the river, in the night
And something tells me this is right

COMPANY:
The only lighthouse in these foggy times
The only seed of hope
The only drop of dreams left in my mind
The only chance we’ll cope
Is right here, so let’s start
In what they call the heart
Of Europe, and let’s hope we’ll never part
Let’s see if our new home could be called...

SON
Prague

credits

from Journeys, released September 1, 2020
PERFORMED by Company, Hugh Wallace-Acheson and Daniel Kirschner
PIANO Bara Dockalova
CLARINET Matěj Trejtnar, Ruben Konečný
VIOLIN Sára Konečná, Jáchym Konečný
PERCUSSION Oliver Klain

MUSIC AND LYRICS ©Bara Dockalova
ORCHESTRATION ©Vít Beneš
SCRIPT ©Leah Gaffen
RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED by Daniel Zezula and Studio Vraník, 2019 and 2020
TRACK ARTWORK ©Johana Trejtnar

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Bara Dockalova Prague, Czechia

I teach English through theatre and I write musical plays. I love composing songs that are embedded in a story and help to move it forward. I write folk songs and chansons also, lately more and more in Czech, and I occasionally perform them myself with a band. ... more

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