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MRS. LOVETT:
There was a barber and his wife,
And he was beautiful
A proper artist with a knife,
But they transported him for life.
And he was beautiful...

(spoken) Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker.
TODD: What was his crime?
LOVETT: Foolishness.

He had this wife, y'see,
Pretty little thing,
Silly little nit,
Had her chance for the moon on a string.
Poor thing.
Poor thing.
There were these two, y'see,
Wanted her like mad,
One of 'em a judge, t'other one his beadle!
Every day they'd nudge and they'd wheedle!
But she wouldn't budge from her needle!
Too bad,
Pure thing.
So they merely shipped the poor blighter off south, they did,
Leavin' 'er with nothing but grief and a year-old kid!
Did she use her head even then? Oh no, God forbid!
Poor fool!
Ah, but there was worse yet to come, poor thing...

(spoken) Johanna... That was the baby's name, pretty little Johanna.
TODD: Go on.
LOVETT: My, you do like a good story, don't you?

Well, Beadle calls on her all polite,
Poor thing,
Poor thing!
The judge, he tells her is all contrite,
He blames himself for her dreadful plight,
She must come straight to his house tonight,
Poor thing,
Poor thing!

Of course when she goes there, poor thing, poor thing,
They're 'avin' this ball all in masks!
There's no one she knows there, poor dear, poor thing!
She wanders tormented and drinks, poor thing!
The judge has repented, she thinks, poor thing!
'Oh, where is Judge Turpin,' she asks...
'E was there alright,
Only not so contrite!

She wasn't no match for such craft, y'see,
And everyone thought it so droll.
They figured she had to be daft, y'see,
So all of them stood there and laughed, y'see!
Poor soul!
Poor thing!
Last Update: December, 24th 2013

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Prologue)
  3. No Place Like London
  4. The Barber and His Wife
  5. The Worst Pies in London
  6. Poor Thing
  7. My Friends
  8. Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Reprise)
  9. Green Finch and Linnet Bird
  10. Ah, Miss
  11. Johanna
  12. Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
  13. The Contest
  14. Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned
  15. Wait
  16. Pirelli's Death
  17. Johanna (Judge's Song): Mea Culpa
  18. Kiss Me
  19. Ladies and their Sensibilities
  20. Pretty Women
  21. Epiphany
  22. A Little Priest
  23. Act 2
  24. God, That's Good
  25. Johanna (Quartet)
  26. By the Sea
  27. Wigmaker's Sequence
  28. Not While I'm Around
  29. Parlor Songs
  30. Final Sequence
  31. Finale

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