Once on This Island the Musical Songs Lyrics



Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The show includes elements of the Romeo and Juliet story and elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes.

Broadway production (1990)
Once on This Island: the Musical Songs with Lyrics

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1 Once on This Island - PLOT SYNOPSIS
2 Once on This Island - We Dance Lyrics
3 Once on This Island - One Small Girl Lyrics
4 Once on This Island - Waiting for Life Lyrics
5 Once on This Island - And the Gods Heard Her Prayer Lyrics
6 Once on This Island - Rain Lyrics
7 Once on This Island - Pray Lyrics
8 Once on This Island - Forever Yours Lyrics
9 Once on This Island - The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes Lyrics
10 Once on This Island - Ti Moune Lyrics
11 Once on This Island - Mama Will Provide Lyrics
12 Once on This Island - Some Say Lyrics
13 Once on This Island - The Human Heart Lyrics
14 Once on This Island - Pray (Reprise)
15 Once on This Island - Some Girls Lyrics
16 Once on This Island - The Ball Lyrics
17 Once on This Island - When We Are Wed Lyrics
18 Once on This Island - Forever Yours (Reprise)
19 Once on This Island - A Part of Us Lyrics
20 Once on This Island - Why We Tell the Story Lyrics