Poor Unfortunate Souls lyrics - On the Record

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Album lyrics:
  1. Disc 1
  2. Prologue. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
  3. Prologue. Whistle While You Work / Give a Little Whistle
  4. Can You Feel the Love Tonight / I Won't Say I (I'm in Love) / Let's Get Together
  5. Someday My Prince Will Come / Once Upon a Dream
  6. The Walrus and the Carpenter / I Wan'na Be Like You
  7. Prince Ali
  8. I Just Can't Wait to Be King / Lavender Blue
  9. When She Loved Me
  10. Minnie's Yoo-Hoo
  11. Heigh-Ho
  12. The Work Song
  13. I'm Wishing / One Song
  14. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!
  15. So This is Love
  16. A Whole New World
  17. The Second Star to the Right
  18. Under the Sea
  19. Part of Your World
  20. Poor Unfortunate Souls
  21. Kiss the Girl
  22. Reflection
  23. Bella Notte / Les Poissons
  24. Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat / The Siamese Cat Song / The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room
  25. He's a Tramp
  26. Higitus Figitus/Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious/Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee/Following The Leader/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/The Dwarf's Yodel Song (The Silly Song)/Hakuna Matata/Mickey Mouse March
  27. Disc 2
  28. Let's Go Fly a Kite
  29. I Will Go Sailing No More / Just Around the Riverbend / Strangers Like Me
  30. Colors of the Wind
  31. When I See an Elephant Fly
  32. Look Out for Mr. Stork
  33. Pink Elephants on Parade
  34. Baby Mine
  35. The Bells of Notre Dame
  36. Out There
  37. Something There / Beauty and the Beast
  38. A Change in Me
  39. Be Our Guest
  40. Will the Sun Ever Shine Again
  41. You've Got A Friend in Me
  42. If I Never Knew You
  43. You'll Be in My Heart
  44. When You Wish Upon a Star
  45. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (reprise)
  46. The Bare Necessities / A Spoonful of Sugar / It's a Small World 
  47. Mickey Mouse March / Colonel Hathi's March / Cruella De Vil/A Spoonful Of Sugar / Winnie The Pooh / I've Got No Strings

Poor Unfortunate Souls lyrics

Poor Unfortunate Souls


Ursula:
The only way to get what you want...
...is to become a human yourself!

Ariel:
(Gasps with excitement) Can you do that?

Ursula:
My dear, sweet child,
That's what I do...
It's what I live for...
To help unfortunate merfolk,
Like yourself...
Poor souls with no one else to turn to...

I admit that in the past I've been a nasty
They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch
But you'll find that nowadays
I've mended all my ways
Repented, seen the light and made a switch
True?
Yes!

And I fortunately know a little magic
It's a talent that I always have possessed
And here lately, please don't laugh
I use it on behalf
Of the miserable, lonely and depressed
(Pathetic)

Poor unfortunate souls
In pain
In need
This one longing to be thinner
That one wants to get the girl
And do I help them?
Yes, indeed
Those poor unfortunate souls
So sad
So true
They come flocking to my cauldron
Crying, "Spells, Ursula please!"
And I help them?
Yes, I do

Now it's happened once or twice
Someone couldn't pay the price
And I'm afraid I had to rake 'em 'cross the coals
Yes, I've had the odd complaint
But on the whole I've been a saint...
To those poor unfortunate souls

Ursula:
Have we got a deal?

Ariel:
If I become human...
I'll never be with my father or sisters again.
Ursula:
But, you'll have, your man. (laughs slyly)
Life's full of tough choices, isn't it? (laughs slyly)
Oh!
And there is, one, more, thing!
We haven't discussed the subject of payment.

Ariel: But I don't have any -

Ursula:
I'm not asking much.
Just a token, really!
A trifle!
What I want
from you is . . .
...Your voice.

Ariel:
But without my voice, how can I -

Ursula:
You'll have your looks!
Your pretty face!
And don't underestimate
The importance of ... body language!
Ha!

The men up there don't like a lot of blabber
They think a girl who gossips is a bore
Yes, on land it's much preferred
For ladies not to say a word
And after all, dear, what is idle prattle for?

Come on, they're not all that impressed with conversation
True gentlemen avoid it when they can
But they dote and swoon and fawn
On a lady who's withdrawn
It's she who holds her tongue who gets her man

Come on, you poor unfortunate soul
Go ahead!
Make your choice!
I'm a very busy woman
And I haven't got all day
It won't cost much:
Just your voice!

You poor unfortunate soul!
It's sad,
But true!
If you want to cross a bridge, my sweet
You've got to pay the toll
Take a gulp and take a breath
And go ahead and sign the scroll!
(Flotsam, Jetsam, now I've got her, boys)
The boss is on a roll

This poor unfortunate soul...
Last Update: June, 25th 2013


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