The Ballad of Sweeney Todd Lyrics

2023 West End
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends - The Ballad of Sweeney Todd Lyrics

(from Sweeney Todd)

MICHAEL BALL:
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
His skin was pale and his eye was odd.
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard of again.
He trod a path that few have trod,
Did Sweeney Todd,
The demon barber of Fleet Street.

He kept a shop in London town,
Of fancy clients and good renown.
And what if none of their souls were saved?
They went to their maker impeccably shaved
By Sweeney,
By Sweeney Todd,
The demon barber of Fleet Street.

COMPANY:
Swing your razor wide, Sweeney!
Hold it to the skies!
Freely flows the blood of those
Who moralize!

MICHAEL BALL:
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.

COMPANY:
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.

MICHAEL BALL:
He served a dark and a vengeful god.

COMPANY:
He served a dark and a vengeful god.

MICHAEL BALL:
What happened then - well, that's the play,
And he wouldn't want us to give it away,
Not Sweeney,
Not Sweeney Todd

MICHAEL BALL & COMPANY:
The demon barber of Fleet Street.

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Company
The Little Things You Do Together
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Getting Married Today
Hello Little Girl
Send In the Clowns
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
The Worst Pies in London
My Friends
Pretty Women
A Little Priest
The Ladies Who Lunch
Sunday
Broadway Baby
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
I'm Still Here
Could I Leave You?
Losing My Mind
Not a Day Goes By
Being Alive
Old Friends