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Original Broadway production 1979
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street the Musical - Poor Thing Lyrics
TODD:
Isn't that a room up there over the pie shop?
If times are so hard,
Why don't you rent it out?
That should bring in something.
MRS. LOVETT:
Up there? Oh, no one will go near it.
People think it's haunted...
You see - years ago, something happened up there.
Something not very nice.
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...
Barker, his name was - Benjamin Barker.
TODD:
Transported? What was his crime?
MRS. LOVETT:
Foolishness.
He had this wife, you see,
Pretty little thing.
Silly little nit
Had her chance for the moon on a string-
Poor thing. Poor thing.
There were these two, you see,
Wanted her like mad,
One of 'em a judge,
T'other one his beadle
Every day they'd nudge and they'd wheedle.
Still she wouldn't budge from her needle.
Too bad. Pure thing.
So they merely shipped the poor blighter off South they did,
Leaving her 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.
Johanna, that was the child's name...Pretty little Johanna.
TODD:
Go on.
Mrs. 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 havin' 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.
He was there, all right-
Only not so contrite!
She wasn't no match for such craft, you see,
And everyone thought it so droll.
They figured she had to be daft, you see.
So all of 'em stood there and laughed, you see.
Poor soul!
Poor thing!
TODD:
NOOOOOO!!
Would no one have mercy on her?
MRS. LOVETT:
So it is you - Benjamin Barker.
[Thanks to Sam Wilkes for lyrics]
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Poor Thing Lyrics from Sweeney Todd the Musical
Sweeney Todd the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
No Place Like London
The Barber and His Wife
The Worst Pies in London
Poor Thing
My Friends
The Ballad: "Lift Your Razor High, Sweeney!"
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
Ah, Miss
Johanna
Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
Pirelli's Entrance
The Contest
The Ballad: "Sweeney Pondered and Sweeney Planned"
Wait
The Ballad: "His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Strong"
Johanna - Mea Culpa
Kiss Me (Part 1)
Ladies In Their Sensitivities
Kiss Me (Part 2)
Pretty Women
Epiphany
A Little Priest
God, That's Good!
Johanna (Reprise)
By the Sea
Wigmaker Sequence
The Letter
Not While I'm Around
Parlour Songs
The Ballad: "The Engine Roared, The Motor Hissed"
City on Fire/ Searching
The Judge's Return
The Final Scene
Epilogue
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