Poor Thing

Sweeney Todd: "You got a room over the shop, haven't you?

If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out?"

Mrs. Lovett: "People think it's haunted."

Sweeney Todd: "Haunted?"

Mrs. Lovett: "Yeah.

And who's to say they're wrong?

You see, years ago something happened up here.

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."

Sweeney Todd: "What was his crime?"

Mrs. Lovett: "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 was this judge, you see

Wanted her like mad

Every day he sent her a flower

But did she come down from her tower

Sat up there and sulked by the hour

Poor fool

Ah, but there was worse yet to come, poor thing

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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 havin' 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 alright

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 them stood there and laughed, you see

Poor soul

Poor thing

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Sweeney Todd: "NO!"

Would no one have mercy on her?"

Mrs. Lovett: "So it is you. Benjamin Barker."

Sweeney Todd: "No! Not Barker. That man is dead.

It's Todd now - Sweeney Todd.

And he will have his revenge."