Pocahontas
I was going to do Aladdin first, but then I remembered that Pocahontas is the cartoon Niki and I quoted the most from, after The Sound of Music (yes, I know that’s not a cartoon!); for that reason, it gets to be second. Remember, Niki: Listen with your heart, you will understand!
Song #1: The Virginia Company
Lyrics:
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
Song #2: Steady as the Beating Drum
Lyrics:
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
Song #3: Just Around the Riverbend
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 course
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?
Song #4: Listen With your Heart
Lyrics:
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
Song #5: Mine, Mine, Mine
Lyrics:
[Ratcliffe]
The gold of Cortes
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!
[Wiggins]
Hey nonny nonny
Ho nonny nonny
[Ratcliffe]
Riches for Cheap!
[English Settlers]
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, mine
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 design
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]
Keep on working, lads
Don’t be shirking, lads
Mine, boys, mine
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!
[Ratcliffe]
It all can be sold!
[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!
Song #6: Colors of the Wind
Lyrics:
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
How 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 mountain?
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
Song #7: Savages
Lyrics:
[Ratcliffe]
What can you expect
From filthy little heathens?
Here’s what you get when the races are diverse
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 shrieking 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!
[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 heart 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 be 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?
Song #8: If I Never Knew You
Lyrics:
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
I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we’d make the whole world bright
I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong
all they’d leave us were these wispers in the night
But still my heart is saying we were right
Oh if I never knew you
There’s no moment I regret
If i never felt this love
Since the moment that we met
I would have no inkling of
If our time has gone too fast
How precious life can be…
I’ve lived at last…
And I’m so grateful to you
I’d have lived my whole life through
Empty as the sky
Never knowing why
Lost forever
If I never knew you.
