The Secret Garden - The House Upon the Hill Lyrics

1991 Broadway
The Secret Garden the Musical - The House Upon the Hill Lyrics

(spoken)
I've never seen a child sit so still or look so old.

DREAMERS:
High on a hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it.
Spirits haunt the halls
And make no effort now to hide it.

What will put their souls to rest
And stop their ceaseless sighing?
Why do they call out children's names
And speak of one who's crying?

MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
Well, you're right not to care.
Why you're being brought
to Misselthwaite I'll never know.
Your uncle isn't going
to trouble himself about you,
that's sure and certain.
He never troubles himself about anyone.

DREAMERS:
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still,
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill.

MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
He's a hunchback, you see.
And a sour young man he was,
and got no good of all his money
and big place till he were married.

MARY: (spoken)
To my mother's sister?

MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
Her name was Lily. And she was a sweet,
pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over
to get her a blade of grass that she wanted.
Nobody thought she'd marry him,
but marry him she did,
and it wasn't for his money either.
But then when she died.

MARY
How did she die?

MRS. MEDLOCK
It made him worse than ever.
He travels most of the time now.
It's his brother, Dr. Craven,
who makes all the decisions these days.

DREAMERS:
High on a hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it.
Someone died and someone's left
Alone and can't abide it.

There in the house lives a lonely
Man still haunted by her beauty.
Asking what a life can be where
Where naught remains but duty.

MARY: (spoken)
Is it always so ugly here?

MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
It's the moor.
Miles and miles of wild land that nothing grows on
but heather and gorse and broom,
and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep.

MARY: (spoken)
What is that awful howling sound?

MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
That's the wind, blowing through the bushes.
They call it wuthering, that sound.
But look there, that tiny light far across there.
That'll be the gate it will.

DREAMERS:
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still.
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill.


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The Secret Garden the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Opening
There's a Girl (Part I)
The House Upon the Hill
There's a Girl (Part II)
I Heard Someone Crying
If I Had A Fine White Horse
A Girl in the Valley
It's a Maze
Winter's on the Wing
Show Me the Key
A Bit of Earth
Storm I
Lily's Eyes
Storm II
Round-Shouldered Man
Final Storm
The Girl I Mean to Be
The House Upon the Hill (reprise)
Quartet
There's a Man
Race You to the Top of the Morning
It's a Maze (reprise)
Wick
Come to My Garden
Come Spirit, Come Charm
A Bit of Earth (reprise)
Disappear
Hold On
Letter Song
Where in the World?
How Could I Ever Know?
Finale: Come to My Garden (reprise)