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Song Poor Thing
Artist Stephen Sondheim
Album Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2005 Broadway Revival Cast - With New Orchestrations by Sarah Travis)
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[00:00.00] Isn't that a room over the shop?
[00:02.06] If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out?
[00:04.66] People think it's haunted.
[00:06.75] Haunted?
[00:08.64] And who's to say they're wrong? ...
[00:12.71] You see, years ago, something happened up there.
[00:16.05] Something not very nice...
[00:19.55]
[00:21.59] There was a barber and his wife,
[00:25.11] And he was beautiful,
[00:29.19] A proper artist with a knife,
[00:32.47] But they transported him for life.
[00:36.36] And he was beautiful...
[00:41.23] Barker, his name was -- Benjamin Barker.
[00:45.78] What was his crime?
[00:48.05] Foolishness
[00:50.85] He had this wife, you see,
[00:54.62] Pretty little thing,
[00:54.88] Silly little nit
[00:57.17] Had her chance for the moon on a string --
[01:00.73] Poor thing. Poor thing
[01:07.48] There was this Judge, you see,
[01:10.72] Wanted her like mad,
[01:12.24] Every day he’d send her a flower,
[01:14.73] But did she come down from her tower?
[01:18.28] Sat up there and sobbed by the hour,
[01:21.67] Poor fool.
[01:24.78] Ah, but there was worse yet to come,
[01:25.83] Poor thing.
[01:33.49] The Beadle calls on her, all polite,
[01:38.09] Poor thing, poor thing.
[01:40.77] The Judge, he tells her, is all contrite,
[01:44.75] He blames himself for her dreadful plight
[01:48.08] She must come straight to his house tonight!
[01:51.32] Poor thing, poor thing.
[01:57.38] Of course, when she goes there,
[02:00.05] Poor thing, poor thing,
[02:01.53] They're having this ball all in masks.
[02:03.98] There's no one she knows there,
[02:06.23] Poor dear, poor thing,
[02:07.80] She wanders tormented, and drinks,
[02:09.92] Poor thing.
[02:11.06] The Judge has repented, she thinks,
[02:13.06] Poor thing.
[02:14.00] “Oh, where is Judge Turpin?” she asks.
[02:16.67] He was there, all right--
[02:19.81] Only not so contrite!
[02:21.28] She wasn’t no match for such craft, you see,
[02:27.43] And everyone thought it so droll.
[02:29.89] They figured she had to be daft, you see,
[02:33.59] So all of ‘em stood there and laughed, you see,
[02:36.29] Poor soul!
[02:38.40] Poor thing!
[02:42.20]
[02:44.60]
[02:47.96] NOOOOOOOO...
[02:50.28] Would no one have mercy on her?
[02:54.54] So it is you -- Benjamin Barker.
[02:57.14] No, not Barker.
[03:00.84] That man is dead.
[03:02.53] It's Todd now.
[03:04.46] Sweeney Todd ...
[03:06.11] And he will have his revenge.
[00:00.00] Isn' t that a room over the shop?
[00:02.06] If times are so hard, why don' t you rent it out?
[00:04.66] People think it' s haunted.
[00:06.75] Haunted?
[00:08.64] And who' s to say they' re wrong? ...
[00:12.71] You see, years ago, something happened up there.
[00:16.05] Something not very nice...
[00:19.55]
[00:21.59] There was a barber and his wife,
[00:25.11] And he was beautiful,
[00:29.19] A proper artist with a knife,
[00:32.47] But they transported him for life.
[00:36.36] And he was beautiful...
[00:41.23] Barker, his name was Benjamin Barker.
[00:45.78] What was his crime?
[00:48.05] Foolishness
[00:50.85] He had this wife, you see,
[00:54.62] Pretty little thing,
[00:54.88] Silly little nit
[00:57.17] Had her chance for the moon on a string
[01:00.73] Poor thing. Poor thing
[01:07.48] There was this Judge, you see,
[01:10.72] Wanted her like mad,
[01:12.24] Every day he' d send her a flower,
[01:14.73] But did she come down from her tower?
[01:18.28] Sat up there and sobbed by the hour,
[01:21.67] Poor fool.
[01:24.78] Ah, but there was worse yet to come,
[01:25.83] Poor thing.
[01:33.49] The Beadle calls on her, all polite,
[01:38.09] Poor thing, poor thing.
[01:40.77] The Judge, he tells her, is all contrite,
[01:44.75] He blames himself for her dreadful plight
[01:48.08] She must come straight to his house tonight!
[01:51.32] Poor thing, poor thing.
[01:57.38] Of course, when she goes there,
[02:00.05] Poor thing, poor thing,
[02:01.53] They' re having this ball all in masks.
[02:03.98] There' s no one she knows there,
[02:06.23] Poor dear, poor thing,
[02:07.80] She wanders tormented, and drinks,
[02:09.92] Poor thing.
[02:11.06] The Judge has repented, she thinks,
[02:13.06] Poor thing.
[02:14.00] " Oh, where is Judge Turpin?" she asks.
[02:16.67] He was there, all right
[02:19.81] Only not so contrite!
[02:21.28] She wasn' t no match for such craft, you see,
[02:27.43] And everyone thought it so droll.
[02:29.89] They figured she had to be daft, you see,
[02:33.59] So all of ' em stood there and laughed, you see,
[02:36.29] Poor soul!
[02:38.40] Poor thing!
[02:42.20]
[02:44.60]
[02:47.96] NOOOOOOOO...
[02:50.28] Would no one have mercy on her?
[02:54.54] So it is you Benjamin Barker.
[02:57.14] No, not Barker.
[03:00.84] That man is dead.
[03:02.53] It' s Todd now.
[03:04.46] Sweeney Todd ...
[03:06.11] And he will have his revenge.
[00:00.00] Isn' t that a room over the shop?
[00:02.06] If times are so hard, why don' t you rent it out?
[00:04.66] People think it' s haunted.
[00:06.75] Haunted?
[00:08.64] And who' s to say they' re wrong? ...
[00:12.71] You see, years ago, something happened up there.
[00:16.05] Something not very nice...
[00:19.55]
[00:21.59] There was a barber and his wife,
[00:25.11] And he was beautiful,
[00:29.19] A proper artist with a knife,
[00:32.47] But they transported him for life.
[00:36.36] And he was beautiful...
[00:41.23] Barker, his name was Benjamin Barker.
[00:45.78] What was his crime?
[00:48.05] Foolishness
[00:50.85] He had this wife, you see,
[00:54.62] Pretty little thing,
[00:54.88] Silly little nit
[00:57.17] Had her chance for the moon on a string
[01:00.73] Poor thing. Poor thing
[01:07.48] There was this Judge, you see,
[01:10.72] Wanted her like mad,
[01:12.24] Every day he' d send her a flower,
[01:14.73] But did she come down from her tower?
[01:18.28] Sat up there and sobbed by the hour,
[01:21.67] Poor fool.
[01:24.78] Ah, but there was worse yet to come,
[01:25.83] Poor thing.
[01:33.49] The Beadle calls on her, all polite,
[01:38.09] Poor thing, poor thing.
[01:40.77] The Judge, he tells her, is all contrite,
[01:44.75] He blames himself for her dreadful plight
[01:48.08] She must come straight to his house tonight!
[01:51.32] Poor thing, poor thing.
[01:57.38] Of course, when she goes there,
[02:00.05] Poor thing, poor thing,
[02:01.53] They' re having this ball all in masks.
[02:03.98] There' s no one she knows there,
[02:06.23] Poor dear, poor thing,
[02:07.80] She wanders tormented, and drinks,
[02:09.92] Poor thing.
[02:11.06] The Judge has repented, she thinks,
[02:13.06] Poor thing.
[02:14.00] " Oh, where is Judge Turpin?" she asks.
[02:16.67] He was there, all right
[02:19.81] Only not so contrite!
[02:21.28] She wasn' t no match for such craft, you see,
[02:27.43] And everyone thought it so droll.
[02:29.89] They figured she had to be daft, you see,
[02:33.59] So all of ' em stood there and laughed, you see,
[02:36.29] Poor soul!
[02:38.40] Poor thing!
[02:42.20]
[02:44.60]
[02:47.96] NOOOOOOOO...
[02:50.28] Would no one have mercy on her?
[02:54.54] So it is you Benjamin Barker.
[02:57.14] No, not Barker.
[03:00.84] That man is dead.
[03:02.53] It' s Todd now.
[03:04.46] Sweeney Todd ...
[03:06.11] And he will have his revenge.
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