Sweeney Todd - The Barber and His Wife Lyrics

Original Broadway production 1979
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street the Musical - The Barber and His Wife Lyrics

TODD:
There was a barber and his wife
And she was beautiful.
A foolish barber and his wife.
She was his reason and his life,
And she was beautiful.
And she was virtuous.
And he was...
Naive.

There was another man who saw
That she was beautiful.
A pious vulture of the law
Who with a gesture of his claw
Removed the barber from his plate.
Then there was nothing but to wait
And she would fall.
So soft,
So young,
So lost
And oh, so beautiful!

ANTHONY:
The lady, sir - did she succumb?

TODD:
Oh, that was many years ago...
I doubt if anyone would know.

Now, leave me, Anthony, I beg of you.
There's somewhere I must go, something I must find out. Now. And alone.

ANTHONY:
So long then, Mr. Todd.

TODD:
There's a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
And it's filled with people
Who are filled with shit
And the vermin of the world
Inhabit it...

[Thanks to Sam Wilkes for lyrics]


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The Barber and His Wife 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