The Secret Garden - The House Upon the Hill Lyrics |
1991 Broadway The Secret Garden the Musical - The House Upon the Hill Lyrics
(spoken) I've never seen a child sit so still or look so old.
DREAMERS: High on a hill sits a big old house With something wrong inside it. Spirits haunt the halls And make no effort now to hide it.
What will put their souls to rest And stop their ceaseless sighing? Why do they call out children's names And speak of one who's crying?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken) Well, you're right not to care. Why you're being brought to Misselthwaite I'll never know. Your uncle isn't going to trouble himself about you, that's sure and certain. He never troubles himself about anyone.
DREAMERS: And the master hears the whispers On the stairways dark and still, And the spirits speak of secrets In the house upon the hill.
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken) He's a hunchback, you see. And a sour young man he was, and got no good of all his money and big place till he were married.
MARY: (spoken) To my mother's sister?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken) Her name was Lily. And she was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade of grass that she wanted. Nobody thought she'd marry him, but marry him she did, and it wasn't for his money either. But then when she died.
MARY How did she die?
MRS. MEDLOCK It made him worse than ever. He travels most of the time now. It's his brother, Dr. Craven, who makes all the decisions these days.
DREAMERS: High on a hill sits a big old house With something wrong inside it. Someone died and someone's left Alone and can't abide it.
There in the house lives a lonely Man still haunted by her beauty. Asking what a life can be where Where naught remains but duty.
MARY: (spoken) Is it always so ugly here?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken) It's the moor. Miles and miles of wild land that nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom, and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep.
MARY: (spoken) What is that awful howling sound?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken) That's the wind, blowing through the bushes. They call it wuthering, that sound. But look there, that tiny light far across there. That'll be the gate it will.
DREAMERS: And the master hears the whispers On the stairways dark and still. And the spirits speak of secrets In the house upon the hill.
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The Secret Garden the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS Opening There's a Girl (Part I) The House Upon the Hill There's a Girl (Part II) I Heard Someone Crying If I Had A Fine White Horse A Girl in the Valley It's a Maze Winter's on the Wing Show Me the Key A Bit of Earth Storm I Lily's Eyes Storm II Round-Shouldered Man Final Storm The Girl I Mean to Be The House Upon the Hill (reprise) Quartet There's a Man Race You to the Top of the Morning It's a Maze (reprise) Wick Come to My Garden Come Spirit, Come Charm A Bit of Earth (reprise) Disappear Hold On Letter Song Where in the World? How Could I Ever Know? Finale: Come to My Garden (reprise)
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