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Song Lyrics
The
Virginia Company
The
Virginia Company (Reprise)
Steady
As The Beating Drum
Steady
As The Beating Drum (Reprise)
Just
Around The Riverbend
Listen
With Your Heart I
Mine,
Mine Mine
Listen
With Your Heart II
Colors
of the Wind
Savages
(Part 1)
Savages
(Part 2)
If
I Never Knew You
The
Virginia Company
Vocals: Chorus
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Men]
In sixteen hundred seven
We sail the open sea
For glory, God, and gold
And The Virginia Company
For the New World is like heaven
And we'll all be rich and free
Or so we have been told
By The Virginia Company
For glory, God and gold
And The Virginia Company
On the beaches of Virginny
There's diamonds like debris
There's silver rivers flow
And gold you pick right off a tree
With a nugget for my Winnie
And another one for me
And all the rest'll go
To The Virginia Company
It's glory, God and gold
And The Virginia Company
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The
Virginia Company (Reprise)
Vocals: Chorus and John Smith
(Mel Gibson)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Men]
We'll kill ourselves an injun
[Smith]
Or maybe two or three
[Men]
We're stalwart men and bold
Of the Virginia Company
It's glory, God, and gold
And The Virginia Company
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Steady
As The Beating Drum
Vocals: Chorus
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Native Americans]
Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega
Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega
Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega
Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega
Steady as the beating drum
Singing to the cedar flute
Seasons go and seasons come
Bring the corn and bear the fruit
By the waters sweet and clean
Where the mighty sturgeon lives
Plant the squash and reap the bean
All the earth our mother gives
O Great Spirit, hear our song
Help us keep the ancient ways
Keep the sacred fire strong
Walk in balance all our days
Seasons go and seasons come
Steady as the beating drum
Plum to seed to bud to plum
(Hega hega ya-hi-ye hega)
Steady as the beating drum
Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega
Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega
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Steady
As The Beating Drum (Reprise)
Vocals: Powhatan (Jim Cummings)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Chief Powhatan]
As the river cuts his path
Though the river's proud and strong
He will choose the smoothest course
That's why rivers live so long
They're steady ...
As the steady beating drum
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Just
Around The Riverbend
Vocals: Pocahontas (Judy
Kuhn)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Pocahontas]
What I love most about rivers is:
You can't step in the same river
twice
The water's always changing, always
flowing
But people, I guess, can't live
like that
We all must pay a price
To be safe, we lose our chance
of ever knowing
What's around the riverbend
Waiting just around the riverbend
I look once more
Just around the riverbend
Beyond the shore
Where the gulls fly free
Don't know what for
What I dream the day might send
Jut around the riverbend
For me
Coming for me
I feel it there beyond those trees
Or right behind these waterfalls
Can I ignore that sound of distant
drumming
For a handsome sturdy husband
Who builds handsome sturdy walls
And never dreams that something
might be coming?
Just around the riverbend
Just around the riverbend
I look once more
Just around the riverbend
Beyond the shore
Somewhere past the sea
Don't know what for ...
Why do all my dreams extend
Just around the riverbend?
Just around the riverbend
...
Should I choose the smoothest curve
Steady as the beating drum?
Should I marry Kocoum?
Is all my dreaming at an end?
Or do you still wait for me, Dream
Giver
Just around the riverbend?
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With Your Heart I
Vocals: Grandmother Willow
(Linda Hunt), Wind (Bobbi Page)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Voice of the Wind]
Ay ay ay ya
Ay ay ya
[Grandmother Willow]
Que que na-to-ra
You will understand
Listen with your heart
You will understand
Let it break upon you
Like a wave upon the sand
Listen with your heart
You will understand
[Voice of the Wind]
You will understand
...
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Mine,
Mine Mine
Vocals: Ratcliffe (David
Ogden Stiers), John Smith (Mel Gibson) and Chorus
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Ratcliffe]
The gold of Cortés
The jewels of Pizarro
Will seem like mere trinkets
By this time tomorrow
The gold we find here
Will dwarf them by far
Oh, with all ya got in ya, boys
Dig up Virginia, boys
Mine, boys, mine ev'ry mountain
And dig, boys, dig 'til ya drop
Grab a pick, boys
Quick, boys
Shove in a shovel
Uncover those lovely
Pebbles that sparkle and shine
It's gold and it's mine, mine,
mine
[English Settlers]
Dig and dig and dig and diggety
...
Dig and dig and dig and diggety
...
[Wiggins]
Hey nonny nonny
Ho nonny nonny
[Ratcliffe]
Oh, how I love it!
Riches for Cheap!
[Wiggins]
There'll be heaps of it
...
[Ratcliffe]
And I'll be on top of the heap!
My rivals back home
It's not that I'm bitter
But think how they'll squirm
When they see how I glitter!
The ladies at court
Will be all a-twitter
The king will reward me
He'll knight me ... no, lord me!
It's mine, mine, mind
For the taking
It's mine, boys
Mine me that gold!
With those nuggets dug ...
It's glory they'll gimme
My dear friend, King Jimmy
Will probably build me a shrine
When all of the gold is mine
[English Settlers]
Dig and dig and dig and diggety
Dig and dig and dig and diggety-dig!
[Smith]
All of my life, I have searched
for a land
Like this one
A wilder, more challenging country
I couldn't desing
Hundreds of dangers await
And I don't plan to miss one
In a land I can claim
A land I can tame
The greatest adventure is mine!
[Ratcliffe and English Settlers
together]
[Ratcliffe]
Keep on working, lands
Don't be shirking, lands
Mine, boys, mind
Mine me that gold
Beautiful gold
[English Settlers]
Mine
Find a mother lode
Then find another load!
Dig! Dig! and diggety
Dig! Dig! for that gold
[All]
Make this island
My land!
[Ratcliffe]
Make the mounds big, boys
I'd help you to dig, boys
But I've got this crick in me spine
[Smith]
This land we behold ...
[Ratcliffe]
This beauty untold ...
[Smith]
A man can be bold!
It all can be sold!
[Ratcliffe and English Settlers
together]
[Ratcliffe]
And the gold
Is ...
Mine!
Mine!
Mine!
Mine!
[English Settlers]
So go for the gold
We know which is here
All the riches here
From this minute
This land and what's in it is
Mine!
[Ratcliffe]
Dig and dig and diggety-dig!
Hey nonny nonny nonny it's mine!
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With Your Heart II
Vocals: Grandmother Willow
(Linda Hunt), Wind (Bobbi Page)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Voice of the Wind]
Ay ay ay ya
Ay ay ya
[Grandmother Willow]
Que que na-to-ra
You will understand
Listen with your heart
You will understand
Let it break upon you
Like a wave upon the sand
Listen with your heart
You will understand
[Voice of the Wind]
You will understand ...
Colors
of the Wind
Vocals: Pocahontas (Judy
Kuhn)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Pocahontas]
You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
Now can there be so much that you
don't know?
You don't know ...
You think you own whatever land
you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing
you can claim
But I know every rock and tree
and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a
name
You think the only people who are
people
Are the people who look and think
like you
But if you walk the footsteps of
a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew
you never knew
Have you ever heard the wolf cry
to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why
he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices
of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors
of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors
of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails
of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries
of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all
around you
And for once, never wonder what
they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are
my brothers
The heron and the otter are my
friends
And we are all connected to each
other
In a circle, in a hoop that never
ends
How high will the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll
never know
And you'll never hear the wolf
cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper
skinned
We need to sing with all the voices
of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors
of the wind
You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors
of the wind
Savages
(Part 1)
Vocals: Ratcliffe (David
Ogden Stiers), Powhatan (Jim Cummings) and Chorus
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Ratcliffe]
What can you expect
From filthy little heathens?
Their whole disgusting race is
like a curse
Their skin's a hellish red
They're only good when dead
They're vermin, as I said
And worse
[English Settlers]
They're savages! Savages!
[Ratcliffe]
Barely even human
[English Settlers]
Savages! Savages!
[Ratcliffe]
Drive them from our shore!
They're not like you and me
Which means they must be evil
We must sound the drums of war!
[English Settlers]
They're savages! Savages!
Dirty redskin devils!
Now we sound the drums of war!
[Powhatan]
This is what we feared
The paleface is a demon
The only thing they feel at all
is greed
[Kekata]
Beneath that milky hide
There's emptiness inside
[Native Americans]
I wonder if they even bleed
They're savages! Savages!
Barely even human
Savages! Savages!
[Powhatan]
Killers at the core
[Kekata]
They're different from us
Which means they can't be trusted
[Powhatan]
We must sound the drums of war
[Native Americans]
They're savages! Savages!
First we deal with this one
[All]
Then we sound the drums of war
[English Settlers]
Savages! Savages!
[Ben]
Let's go kill a few, men!
[Native Americans]
Savages! Savages!
[Ratcliffe]
Now it's up to you, men!
[All]
Savages! Savages!
Barely even human!
Now we sound the drums of war!
Savages
(Part 2)
Vocals: Pocahontas (Judy
Kuhn), Ratcliffe (David Ogden Stiers), Powhatan (Jim Cummings) and Chorus
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Pocahontas]
Is there nothing I can do?
Will this really be the end?
Is it only death that waits
Just around the riverbend?
[Ratcliffe]
This will be the day ...
(Let's go men!)
[Powhatan]
This will be the morning ...
(Bring out the prisoner)
[English Settlers and Native Americans]
We will see them dying in the dust
[Pocahontas]
I don't know what I can do
Still, I know I've got to try
[English Settlers]
Now we make 'em pay
[Pocahontas]
Eagle, help my feet to fly
[Native Americans]
Now without a warning ...
[Pocahontas]
Mountain, help my hart be great
[English Settlers and Native
Americans]
Now we leave 'em blood and bone
and rust
[Pocahontas]
Spirits of the earth and sky ...
[English Settlers and Native
Americans]
It's them or us
[Pocahontas]
Please don't let it bee to
late ...
[English Settlers and Native
Americans]
They're just a bunch of
Filthy, stinking
[English Settlers]
Savages!
[Native Americans]
Savages!
[English Settlers]
Demons!
[Native Americans]
Devils!
[Ratcliffe]
Kill them!
[Native Americans]
Savages!
[English Settlers]
Savages!
[Ratcliffe]
What are we waiting for?
[All]
Destroy their evil race
Until there's not a trace left
[Pocahontas]
How loud are the drums of war
[English Settlers and Native
Americans]
We will sound the drums of war
(Savages! Savages!)
Now, we sound the drums of war
(Savages! Savages!)
[Ratcliffe]
Now we see what comes
Of trying to be chums
[Native Americans]
Now we sound the drums ... of ...
war!
[English Settlers]
Of course it means the drums ...
of ... war!
[Pocahontas]
Is the death of all I love
Carried in the drumming of war?
If
I Never Knew You
Vocals: Pocahontas (Shanice),
John Smith (Jon Secada)
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[Smith]
If I never knew you
If I never felt this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be
And if I never held you
I would never have a clue
How at last I'd find in you
The missing part of me
In this world so full of fear
Full of rage and lies
I can see the truth so clear
In your eyes
So dry your eyes
And I'm so grateful to you
I'd have lived my whole life through
Lost forever
If I never knew you
[Pocahontas]
If I never knew you
I'd be safe but half as real
Never knowing I could feel
A love so strong and true
I'm so grateful to you
I'd have lived my whole life through
Lost forever
If I never knew you
[Smith]
I thought our love would be so
beautiful
[Pocahontas]
Somehow we made the whole world
bright
[Both]
I never knew that fear and hate
could be so strong
All they'd leave us where these
whispers in the night
But still my heart is singing
We were right
[Pocahontas]
If I never knew you
If I never knew this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be
[Smith]
There's no moment I regret
Since the moment that we met
If our time has gone too fast
I've lived at last...
[Both]
I thought our love would be so
beautiful
Somehow we'd make the whole world
bright
[Pocahontas]
I thought our love would be so
beautiful
We'd turn the darkness into light
[Both]
And still my heart is singing
We were right
[Smith]
We were right
And If I never knew you
I'd have lived my whole life through
[Pocahontas]
Empty as the sky
[Both]
Never knowing why
Lost forever
If I never knew you
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