Misc Musicals – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - The Barber And His Wife (Guitar)

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There's a hole in the world like a great black pit

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And the vermin of the world inhabit it

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And it's morals aren't worth what a pig could spit

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And it goes by the name of London...

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At the top of the pole sits the privileged few

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making mock of the vermin in the lower zoo

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turning beauty to filth and greed,

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i too have sailed the world and seen it's wonders

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For the cruelty of men is as wonderous as hell

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but there's no place like London

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There was a barber and his wife,

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And she was beautiful.

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A foolish barber and his wife.

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She was his reason and his life,

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And she was beautiful,

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And she was virtuous,

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And he was... naiiiiiive.

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There was another man who saw

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That she was beautiful.

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A pious vulture of the law,

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Who, with a gesture of his claw,

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Removed the barber from his plate,

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Then there was nothing but to wait,

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And she would fall, so soft, so young, so lost

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And oh so beautiful!

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And the lady, sir,

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Did she succumb?

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Oh, that was many years ago...

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I doubt if anyone would know...

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There's a hole in the world like a great black pit

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And it's filled with people who are filled with shit

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And the vermin of the world inhabit it...