Poor Thing [Original Cast Recording]
Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou
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Isn't that a room up there over the pie shop? If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out? That should bring in something Up there? Oh, no, I don't go near it People think it's haunted You see, years ago, something happened up there, something not very nice. There was a barber and his wife And he was beautiful A proper artist with a knife But they transported him for life And he was beautiful Barker, his name was Benjamin Barker Transported? What was his crime? Foolishness He had this wife, you see Pretty little thing Silly little nit Had her chance for the moon on a string Poor thing Poor thing There were these two, you see Wanted her like mad One of 'em a Judge T'other one his Beadle! Every day they'd nudge And they'd wheedle! But she wouldn't budge From her needle Too bad Pure thing So they merely shipped the poor blighter off south, they did Leaving her with nothing but grief and a year-old kid Did she use her head even then? Oh no, God forbid! Poor fool Ah, but there was worse yet to come Poor thing Johanna, that was the child's name Pretty little Johanna Go on My, you do like a good story, don't you? Well, Beadle calls on her, all polite Poor thing Poor thing The Judge, he tells her, is all contrite He blames himself for her dreadful plight She must come straight to his house tonight! Poor thing Poor thing Of course when she goes there Poor thing, poor thing They're having this ball all in masks There's no one she knows there Poor dear, poor thing She wanders tormented and drinks Poor thing The Judge has repented, she thinks Poor thing "Oh, where is Judge Turpin?" she asks He was there, all right Only not so contrite! She wasn't no match for such craft, you see And everyone thought it so droll They figured she had to be daft, you see So all of 'em stood there and laughed, you see Poor soul! Poor thing! No! Would no one have mercy on her? So it is you, Benjamin Barker!
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Written by: Stephen Sondheim
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