The words to Movers and Shakers are from the poem 'Ode' which was written by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881) and Vikki used the first three stanzas for the song to which she wrote the music.
We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone-sea-breakers
Sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
but we are the Movers and the Shakers
Of the world forever, it seems
We, in the ages lying in the buried past of the earth
Built Ninevah with our sighing and Babel itself with our mirth
And we overthrew them, we were prophesying
To the old of the new worlds worth
This is an age that's dying, or it's one that's coming to birth
With wonderful, deathless ditties
We build up the worlds great cities
And out of a fabulous story we fashion an empire's glory
One man with a dream at pleasure can go forth and conquer a crown
But three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down
The full text of the poem 'Ode' can be found at
rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1540.htmlAnd wikipedia has an entry for it at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_(poem)