Song Lyrics: Pocahontas


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


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


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


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


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?


Listen 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 ...


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!


Listen 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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