Once on This Island - And the Gods Heard Her Prayer Lyrics

Broadway production (1990)
Once on This Island the Musical - And the Gods Heard Her Prayer Lyrics

(Music by Stephen Flaherty and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens)

[A STORYTELLER]
And the gods heard her prayer.

[ASAKA (spoken)]
The peasant girl wants a grand homme
to carry carry her away!
[sung]
I should...
Find a tree all covered with mangos
Juicy mangos, fat and well-fed
Pick a mango

[AGWE]
A juicy mango

[ERZULIE]
A lovely mango

[PAPA GE]
A poison mango

[ASAKA]
Drop the mango...

[ALL]
BOOM!

[ASAKA]
And knock some sense in her head!

[ALL GODS]
Knock some sense in her head!

[AGWE]
Splash her with a wave!

[PAPA GE]
Scare her half to death!

[ERZULIE]
Give her what she wants?

[ASAKA, AGWE, PAPA GE]
Give her what she...?

[ERZULIE]
give her what she wants
Love has many powers
If the love is true
It can cross the earth [To Asaka]
And withstand the storm [To Agwe]
It can conquer even you [To Papa Ge]

[PAPA GE (spoken)]
Hah! Love conquer death?
Why, I could stop her heart like that!

[ERZULIE (spoken)]
Stop her heart from beating, yes.
But not from loving.
Not if love is what she chooses.

[PAPA GE]
Ridiculous!

[AGWE]
Interesting!

[ASAKA]
More amusing than mangos!

[ALL]
Hmmm... No. Hmmm... A journey!

[ERZULIE]
I will give her strength
When the time is right

[ASAKA]
I will guide her way

[PAPA GE]
I will make her choose!

[AGWE]
And I'll provide the place
Where two different worlds will meet Tonight.

[ALL]
Tonight!

[Thanks to Dani Starr for lyrics]


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Once on This Island the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
We Dance
One Small Girl
Waiting for Life
And the Gods Heard Her Prayer
Rain
Pray
Forever Yours
The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes
Ti Moune
Mama Will Provide
Some Say
The Human Heart
Pray (Reprise)
Some Girls
The Ball
When We Are Wed
Forever Yours (Reprise)
A Part of Us
Why We Tell the Story