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Opening
LILY:
Clusters of crocus
Purple and gold
Blankets of pansies
Up from the cold
Lilies and iris
Safe from the chill
Safe in my garden
Snowdrops so still
FAKIR:
Ah
A'o jadu ke mausam
A'o garmiyo ke din
A'o mantra tantra yantra
Us ki bimari hata'o
CHILDREN'S VOICES:
Mistress Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
Not so well, she said, see, the lily's dead
Pull it up, and out you go
Mistress Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
Had an early frost, now it's gone, it's lost
Dig it up, you're out, you're up
You're out, you're up
And out you go
There's a Girl
DREAMERS:
Can it be a dream
Surely it must seem
Like a frightful dream
How can this be true
Won't her mother come
Come, wake her up to play
Won't her father say
Here's a rose for you
There's a girl whom no one sees
There's a girl whose left alone
There's a heart that beats in silence
For the life she's never known
For the life she's never known
The House Upon the Hill:
DREAMERS:
High on the hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it
Spirits haunt the halls
And make no effort now to hide it
What will put their souls to rest
And stop their ceaseless sighing
Why do they call out children's names
And speak of one who's crying
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
Well you're right not to care.
You're uncle certaintly isn't going
to trouble himself about you.
DREAMERS:
And the masters hear the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
He's a hunchback, you see
And a sour young man he was,
and got no good of all his money
and big place till her were married.
MARY: (spoken)
To my Aunt Lily?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
She were a sweet, pretty thing and he'd
have walked the world over to get her
a blade of glass that she wanted.
When she died, it made him worse than ever.
DREAMERS:
High on the hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it
Someone died and someone's left
Alone and can't abide it
There in the house is a lonely man
Still haunted by her beauty
Asking what a life can be
Where naught remains but duty
MARY: (spoken)
Is it always so ugly here?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
It's the moor. Miles and miles
of wild land that nothing grows
on but Heather and Gorse and Broom,
and nothing lives on but wild
ponies and sheep.
MARY: (spoken)
What is that awful howling sound?
MRS. MEDLOCK: (spoken)
That's the wind blowing through the bushes.
They call it wuthering that sound.
But look there, that tiny light
far across there.
That'll be the gate it will.
DREAMERS:
And the masters hear the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill
I Heard Someone Crying
MARY (LILY):
(Ooooo.....)
I heard someone crying
Who though could it be
Maybe it was mother
Calling out, come see
Maybe it was father
All alone, and lost and cold
I heard someone crying
Maybe it was me (oooo...)
ARCHIBALD:
I heard someone singing
Who though could it be
Maybe it was Lily
Calling out to me
Maybe she's not gone
So far away as I've been told
I heard someone singing
Maybe it was she
MARY (LILY):
Maybe it was someone I could
Find and have a cup of tea
Maybe it was someone who
Could bring the tea and come find me (oooo...)
LILY:
I heard someone crying
Though I can't say who
Someone in this house
With nothing left to do
Sounded like a father
Left alone his love grown cold
I heard someone crying
Maybe it was you
ARCHIBALD AND MARY:
Maybe I was dreaming of a garden growing far below
Maybe I was dreaming of a life
That I will never know
MARY (LILY):
I heard someone calling
Who though could it be
Someone in this house (oooo...)
Whom no one seems to see (oooo...)
Someone no one seemed to (oooo...)
Hear except for me (oooo...)
I heard someone calling
Maybe it was he
(oooo...)
(oooo...)
ARCHIBALD:
Lily, where are you, I'm lost without you
I can't walk these halls without you
Lily, where are you, I'm lost without you
I've searched the world but you're not there
Come and tell me why you
Brought me home if you're not here
My Lily, where are you, I'm lost without you
Lily, I am lost
Without you
MAJOR HOLMES, LTS. WRIGHT AND SHAW:
I heard someone crying
Who else could it be
Surely it was Mary
Why can no one see
ROSE, CLAIRE, AND ALICE:
Crying for her mother
For the life she's never known
ALBERT
So lost
See her lying
In her room alone
Lily:
Oooo....
If I Had a Fine White Horse
MARTHA:
If I had a fine white horse
I'd take you for a ride today
But since I have no fine white horse
Inside I'll have to stay
And empty all the chamber pots
And scrub the floors and such
But what's there to do on a fine white horse
It seems to me not much
If I had a wooden boat
I'd take you for a sail today
But since I have no wooden boat
Inside I'll have to stay
And catch and kill the mice
And pluck the chickens for the cook
But what's there to do on a wooden boat
But sit up straight and look
And worry our boat will start to drift
And float us out to sea
And land us on an isle of gold
Oh dear, oh dearie me
If I had a chamber maid
I'd take you out to play today
They say out there's a maze where
Once you enter, there you stay
For certain we'd get lost
And they'd come looking for our bones
And find us sometime late next week
And bring us tea and scones
But what if there's a clan of
Trolls-a-campin' 'neath a tree
Or what of there's a pirate's cave
Oh dear, oh dear
Oh dearie me
If I wasn't so afraid
I'd take you out the door today
But talking birds and tales of
Fairies keep me scared away
And yes, I promised not to tell what
Else is there, although
If in the maze you chance to see
A garden guarded by a tree
And meet a girl who speaks to thee
Then come and tell me fine white horse
And me
A Girl in the Valley
LILY:
A man who came to my valley
A man I hardly knew
A man who came to my garden
Grew to love me
ARCHIBALD:
A girl I saw in a valley
A girl I hardly knew
A girl at work in a garden
Grew to love me
LILY:
From the gate
He called out so kindly
"Lass wouldst thou 'low me
Rest her, I've ridden quite far"
ARCHIBALD:
"Share my tea"
She bade me so gently
Oatcakes and cream
Sweet plums in a jar
LILY:
And every day to my garden
This man, who might he be
Came bearing baskets of roses
For he loved me
ARCHIBALD:
All I own I'd give her
LILY:
Just a garden
ARCHIBALD:
All I would ask is never to
LILY:
Never to leave
LILY AND ARCHIBALD:
Say you'll have me
Safe you will keep me
Where you would lead me
There
ARCHIBALD:
I would
LILY AND ARCHIBALD:
There I would, There I would
There I would go
A man (girl) who came to my valley
A man (girl) I hardly knew
A man (girl) who gave me a garden
Grew to love me
It's a Maze
BEN:
Plant a hedge, cut it back
Dig a hole, try to fill it
Plant a rose, tie it back
Find a mole, try to kill it
It's a maze, this garden, it's a maze of ways
Any man can spend his day
It's a maze, this garden, it's a maze of paths
But a soul can find his way
For an old man knows how a year it goes
How the cold hard ground in the spring comes 'round
How the seeds take hold and the ferns unfold
How an English garden grows
MARY:
Skip, skipped the ladies to the master's gate
Sip, sipped the ladies while the master ate
Tip, toed the chambermaid and stole their pearls
Snip, snipped the gardener and cut off their curls
DICKON:
Come along, love, come fly away, fly along
Come along, fly away home
Come along, love, you've come a long way
You've flown all the day, come fly away home
BEN:
Miss a step, trip and fall
Miss the path, meet the wall
Miss the way, miss a turn
Gettin' lost's how you learn
It's a maze, this garden, it's a maze of paths
Meant to lead a man astray
Take a left, and then, turning left again's
How a soul can find the way
For an old man knows, how a year it goes
How the cold hard ground in the spring comes 'round
How in time it shows how a garden grows
How an english garden grows
How the roses climb
How sublime the time
When an English garden grows
Winter's On the Wing:
DICKON:
Winter's on the wing
Here's a fine spring morn
Comin' clear through the night
Come the may, i say
Winter's taking flight
Sweepin' dark cold air
Out to sea, spring is born
Comes the day, I say
And you'll be here to see it
Stand and breathe it all the day
Stoop and feel it, stop and hear it
Spring, I say
And now the sun is climbin' high
Riding fast, on fire
Glaring down thorugh the gloom
Gone the gray, I say
The sun spells the doom
Of the winter's reign
Ice and chill must retire
Come the May, I say
And you'll be here to see it
Stand and breathe it all the day
Stoop and feel it, stop and hear it
Spring, I say
I say, be gone, ye howling gales
Be off ye frosty morns
All ye solid streams begin to thaw
Melt, ye waterfalls
Part, ye frozen witner walls
See, see now it's starting
And now the mist is liftin' high
Leavin' bright, blue air
Rollin' clear cross the moor
Come the May, I say
The storm'll soon be by
Leavin' clear blue sky
Soon the sun will shine
Comes the day, say I
And you'll be here to see it
Stand and breathe it all the day
Stoop and feel it, stop and hear it
Spring, I say
Show Me the Key
MARY:
I
DICKON:
She
MARY:
I'm a girl
DICKON:
She is a lass as took a graidly fancy to thee
Dost tha' fear
MARY:
Tha' mun not fear
DICKON:
She's took thee on for like to vex thee
Nowt o' the soart
MARY:
Nowt o' the soart
DICKON:
She knows fair well, she mun not fright thee
MARY:
Canna tha' show me
DICKON:
Fair better to know her
MARY:
Show me tha' key
DICKON:
Show her tha' key
She's a lass and tha' art right
As needs a spot where she can rest in
MARY:
I mun sit where I'm not be so
Thinkin' thoughts or feel a guest in
DICKON:
Nowt o' the soart
MARY:
Nowt o' the soart
DICKON:
She'd fair be watchin' for the spring
MARY:
I'll not be climbin' up
I'll only be callin' good morning
And fair low I'll sing
DICKON: (spoken)
Well done, Mary!
MARY:
I'll only walk around as like to see it for myself
If tha' canst 'low me visit
I'll speak low e'en to thysel'
Tha'll not be bothered night and day
By wenches racin' 'round
I'll but seem a silent dream
Standin' on the secret ground
I'd but smell the growin' things
Count the roses 'gainst the wall
Hear thy babes when first they peck
Stretch my hand if they should fall
Or if tha' likes, I'll bring thee seeds
Or worms all in a mound
For if tha'll have me for a friend
Tha'll be the first I've found
I'm a lass
DICKON:
A trusty lass
MARY:
That took a graidly fancy to thee
Canna tha' show me
DICKON:
Fair well tha' dost know her
MARY:
Show me tha' key
MARY AND DICKON:
Show me (her) tha' key
DICKON:
And you'll be here to see it
Stand and breathe it all the day
Stoop and feel it, stop and hear it
Spring, I say
A Bit of Earth
ARCHIBALD:
She wants a little bit of earth
She'll plant some seeds
The seeds will grow
The flowers bloom
But is their bounty
What she needs
How can she chance
To love a little bit of earth
Does she not know
The earth is old
And doesn't care if
One small girl wants things to grow
She needs a friend
She needs a father
Brother, sister
Mother's arms
She needs to laugh
She needs to dance
And learn to work
Her girlish charms
She needs a home
The only thing she really needs
I cannot give
Instead she asks
A bit of earth
To make it live
She should have a pony
Gallop 'cross the moor
She should have a doll's house
With a hundred rooms per floor
Why can't she ask for a treasure
Something that money can buy
That won't die
When I'd give her the world
She asks, instead
For some earth
A bit of earth
She wants a little bit of earth
She'll plant some seeds
The seeds will grow
The flowers bloom
Their beauty just the thing she need
She'll grow to love the tender roses
Lilies fair, the iris tall
And then in fall, her bit of earth
Will freeze and kill them all
A bit of earth, a bit of earth
A bit of earth, a bit of earth
Storm I
MAJOR HOLMES:
Close the shutters
And lock the doors
ALBERT:
Brace the windows
As in it pours
FAKIR:
Candles only the ones you carry
LIEUTENANT SHAW:
Watch now
ROSE:
Checking supplies
AYAH AND CLAIRE:
Watching the skies
FEMALE DREAMERS:
Fares well the house that's ready
ALL DREAMERS:
Comin' a terrible storm
Looks like the sea in a gale
Branches are broken in half
Carried aloft like a sail
Not since I was a child
Have I heard such a horrible wail
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah....
Lily's Eyes:
NEVILLE:
Strangely quiet, but now the storm
Simply rests to strike again
Standing, waiting, I think of her
I think of her
ARCHIBALD:
Strange, this mary, she leaves the room
Yet remains, she lingers on
Something stirs me to think of her
I think of her
NEVILLE:
From death she casts her spell
All night we hear her sighs
And now a girl has come
Who has her eyes
She has her eyes
The girl has Lily's eyes
Those eyes that saw him happy long ago
Those eyes that gave him life
And hope he'd never known
How can he see the girl
And miss those hazel eyes
ARCHIBALD:
She has her eyes
The girl has Lily's hazel eyes
Those eyes that closed and left me all alone
Those eyes I feel will never ever let me go
How can I see this girl who has her hazel eyes
In Lily's eyes a castle
This house seemed to be
And I, her bravest knight became
My lady fair was she
NEVILLE:
She has her eyes
She has my Lily's hazel eyes
Those eyes that loved my brother -- never me
Those eyes that never saw me
Never knew I longed
To hold her close
To live at last in Lily's eyes
ARCHIBALD:
Imagine me a lover
NEVILLE:
I longed for the day
She'd turn and see me standing there
ARCHIBALD AND NEVILLE:
Would God had let her stay
NEVILLE:
She has her eyes
She has Lily's hazel eyes
Those eyes that first
I loved so
How can
I now forget
That once I dared
To be alive and whole
In Lily's eyes
In Lily's eyes
ARCHIBALD:
She has her eyes
My Lily's hazel eyes
Those eyes that saw me
Happy long ago
How can
I now forget
That once I dared to be in love
Alive and whole
In Lily's eyes
In Lily's eyes
Storm II
MARY:
Someone is crying, just now I heard them
Someone in this house is crying
Why won't they tell me, I know they're lying
Someone here is lost or mad
I must try to find them
Beg them stop so I can sleep
I heard someone crying
Who though could it be
Someone in this house
Whom no one seems to see
Someone no one seems to hear, except for me
I heard someone crying
MARY AND AYAH:
I heard someone crying
ALBERT:
I heard someone
FAKIR:
I heard someone
AYAH:
I heard someone crying
ALICE:
Yes, there's someone crying
ROSE:
Someone here is crying
DREAMERS:
Ah
CLAIRE:
Listen, someone's crying
DREAMER WOMEN:
I heard someone
I heard someone
LILY:
I heard someone
Cry
Round-Shouldered Man
COLIN:
Some nights I dream
That a round-shouldered man
Comes in my room
On a beam of moonlight
He never says what he wants
He just sits with a book in his hands
And then I dream
That the round-shouldered man
Takes me off on a ride
Through the moors by moonlight
He never says where we'll go
We just ride 'cross the hills 'til dawn
And some night I'm going to ask him
Is the night sky black or blue
I know the answer's in his book
Of all that's good and true
And once I dreamed
That the round-shouldered man
Took my hand and we walked
To a secret garden
I never knew where we were
We just sat in the crook of a broken tree
Some night I'm going to ask him
How the old moon turns to new
I know the answer's in his book
Of all that's good and true
I know the answer's in his book
Of all that's good and true
Final Storm
DREAMERS:
Comin' a terrible storm
Shakin' the souls of the dead
Quakin' the floor underfoot
Shakin' the roof over head
Not since I was a child
Have I feared
ROSE:
Mistress mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
AYAH:
Not so well, she said, see the lily's dead
Pull it up, and out you go
MAJOR HOLMES:
Mistress mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
CLAIRE:
Oh it's dry, she wailed
See the iris failed
Dig it up, and out you go
ALL DREAMERS: (sung simultaneously with Claire)
It's a maze this garden
It's a maze of ways
FAKIR:
Mistress mary
Quite contrary
How does your garden
Grow
ALL DREAMERS: (sung simultaneously with Fakir)
Something wrong inside it
It's a maze this garden
It's a maze of ways
LEIUTENANT WRIGHT:
Had an early frost
Now it's gone it's lost
Dig it up, and out
You go
FEMALE DREAMERS: (sung simultaneously with Lieutenant Wright)
High on a hill
MAN AND WOMAN: (sung simultaneously with Lieutenant Wright)
Something
Wrong is inside it
DREAMERS:
It's a maze this garden
It's a maze of ways
Meant to lead a soul astray
It's a maze this garden
It's a maze of ways
It's a maze this garden
It's a maze of ways
Meant to lead a soul astray
DREAMERS (ALBERT):
Mistress mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
Had an early frost
Now it's gone, it's lost
Dig it up, and out you go (Mary!)
You're out, you go (Mary!)
Out, you go
[Lily hums...come to my garden]
MARY: (spoken)
There it is! There's the door
There's the door to the garden
The Girl I Mean To Be:
MARY:
I need a place where I can go
Where I can whisper what I know
Where I can whisper who I like
And where I go to see them
I need a place where I can hide
Where no one sees my life inside
Where I can make my plans and write them down
So I can read them
A place where I can bid my heart be still
And it will mind me
A place where I can go when I am lost
And there I'll find me
I need a place to spend the day
Where no one says to go or stay
Where I can take my pen and draw
The girl I mean to be
The House Upon the Hill (Transition)
DREAMERS:
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
Of the house upon the hill
Quartet
ARCHIBALD: (spoken)
Last night, I dreamed I walked through the maze to
Lily's garden, and saw Lily and Mary standing there.
Mary, standing right there in Lily's garden. I turned
away... I couldn't watch... I was afraid.
NEVILLE:
Why won't he say what he wants
Why must he speak in dreams
Why can't he see what he wants
To disappear, it seems
He should send this haunted girl far away
Leave his house and lands to me
Archibald:
I watched them walk around the garden
She stood tall, grown strong and bold
Then they turned, and asked my pardon
I couldn't speak, my heart grown cold
Neville:
Why can't he see what he wants
He wants the past undone
Why can't he know what he wants
His losing battles won
To have never loved her
Never known, how complete a loss can be
If she could disappear he'd start again
And live like other men, he could be happy then
If she'd disappear, he could be free
Cut off from pain and loss
A bit like me
ROSE: (spoken)
You can't marry this Archibald. He's a gloomy
miserable cripple who hides himself away in that
horrible house. He can't believe you love him, and
neither can I.
LILY: (spoken)
No one is asking for your approval, Rose.
ROSE: (spoken)
Lily, if you don't care what happens to you, think
about your children. Do you want your children to be
crippled as well?
LILY: (spoken)
I will marry him!
NEVILLE:
I can arrange what he wants
He's left it all to me
Now he can have what he wants
Unfettered he will be
Set him free to wander
Through the world
Let him go
His lonely way
ROSE:
Don't do this
Don't wed him
Don't bed him
Don't do this
Set him free
Through the world
Let him go
His lonely way
ARCHIBALD:
And then I longed to join them
Know the peace they feel
Their journey done
Then I woke once more
Without them
Knew I must wander on and on
LILY:
Now that
I love him
I will live
For him
Live just to
Love him
ARCHIBALD:
I
Go
To find
Life
ROSE:
I won't forgive you
Won't see you live there
Lily, I swear
I'll never see you
NEVILLE:
Just to disappear
Is to be free
Cut off from pain
Cut off from pain
I'll help him
disappear
And start again
And live like
Other men
He would be
Happy then
Just to disappear
Is to be free
Disappear
ROSE:
Cut off from pain
Cut off from pain
Now you must
Leave him
Yes, you must leave him
You must believe me
Lily
Promise
Now you must leave him
You
Must believe me
Lily, think about
The children
Lily, think about the children
ARCHIBALD:
Cut off from pain
Cut off from pain
Disappear
Leave loss
Behind me
Live unseen
Disappear
LILY:
Do what you will
Then I'll never
Leave him
Cut off from pain
How can I
Leave him
I'll never leave him
Nor e'er deceive him
Rose
I promised
Never to leave him
No
I won't
Leave him
I will wed
And bear him children
He will love me, love the children
There's a Man (Transition)
ALICE AND CLAIRE:
There's a man whom no one sees
There's a man who lives alone
There's a heart that beats in silence for
The life he's never known
Race You To the Top of the Morning
ARCHIBALD:
When we left off last night
The hideous dragon
Had carried the maid to his cave by moonlight
He gnashed his teeth, and breathed his fire
The heath quaked, and we trembled in fear
I said someone must save the sweet raven-haired maiden
Though surely the cost will be steep
So we lads all drew lots
Our insides tied in knots
And I won and the rest went to sleep
So I picked up my staff
And I followed the trail of his smoke
To the mouth of the cave
And I bid him come out
Yea, forsooth, I did shout
Ye fool dragon be gone or behave
And then under my breath
I uttered a charm said
To make the worst fiend become kind
Knaves and knights of dire plights
Now diminish his sights
And it worked and the dragon went blind
And he charged off the cliff
Howling mad and he died
And the maiden accepted my ring
And then you come along
And were brave, bold and strong
And in thanks every night now I sing
Race you to the top of the morning
Come and sit on my shoulders and ride
Run and hide, I'll come find you
Climb hills to remind you
I love you, my boy at my side
Now another foul dragon's appeared
I must leave you
He's scorching our land with his breath
From his lair, this one taunts me
He dares me, he haunts me
Once again, we must fight to death
would to God I could stay and instead slay your dragon
This beast who sits hunched on your back
Would God I could wrench him away from your bed
Or cut off or tear off his terrible head
Could breathe out my fire on him
'Til he was dead
Or beg him to spare you and take me instead
As it is, I must leave you in care of my brother
The wizard who lives on the hill
Who has promised his art
Will soon pierce through the heart
Of this dragon that's keeping you ill
And I know that your mother, God bless her
Would want you to do as he says and grow strong
And you know that as soon as I can I'll return
So be brave son, and know that I long
To race you to the top of the morning
Come sit on my shoulders and ride
Run and hide, I'll come and find you
Climb hills to remind you
I love you
I love you, my boy at my side
Wick:
DICKON:
When a thing is wick it has a life about it
Maybe not a life like you and me
But somewhere there's a single streak of green inside it
Now come and let me show you what I mean
When a thing is wick it has a light around it
Maybe not a light that you can see
But hiding down below a spark's asleep inside it
Waiting for the right time to be seen
You clear away the dead parts
So the tender buds can form
Loosen up the earth and
Let the roots get warm
Let the roots get warm
Come a mild day, come a warm rain
Come a snowdrop, a-comin' up
Come a lily, come a lilac
Come to call
Callin' all of us to come and see
MARY:
When a thing is wick
And someone cares about it
And comes to work each day
Like you and me
(spoken)
Will it grow?
DICKON: (spoken)
It will.
MARY:
Then have no doubt about it
We'll have the grandest garden ever seen
(spoken)
Oh, Dickon, I want it all to be wick! Would you come and
look at it with me?
DICKON: (spoken)
I'll come every day, rain or shine, if you want me to. All
that garden needs is us to come and wake it up.
MARY: (spoken)
But Dickon, what if we save the garden and then Uncle
Archie takes it back, or Colin wants it?
DICKON: (spoken)
Ay, what a miracle that would be. Gettin' a poor
crippled boy to see his mother's garden.
DICKON AND MARY:
You give a living thing
A little chance to grow
That's how you will know
If she is wick, she'll grow
So grow to greet the morning
Leave the ground below
When a thing is wick
It has a will to grow and grow
MARY:
Come a mild day, come a warm rain
Come a snowdrop, a-comin' up
Come a lily, come a lilac
Come to call
Callin' all the rest to come
DICKON AND MARY:
Callin' all of us to come
Callin' all the world to come
DICKON:
Oh, somewhere there's a single streak of green below
DICKON AND MARY:
And all through the darkest night-time
It's waiting for the right time
When a thing is wick
It will grow
Come To My Garden / Lift Me Up
LILY:
Come to my garden
Nestled in the hill
There I'll keep you
Safe beside me
Come to my garden
Rest there in my arms
There I'll see you
Safely grown and on your way
Stay there in my garden
Where love grows free and wild
Come to my garden
Come, sweet child
COLIN:
Lift me up and lead me to the garden
Where life begins anew
Where I'll find you
And I'll find you love me too
Lift me up and lead me to the garden
Where love grows deep and true
Where I'll tell you
Where I'll show you
My new life, I will live for you
I shall see you in the garden
And spring will come and stay
Lift me up and lead me to the garden
Come, sweet day
LILY:
Come to my garden
Rest there in my arms
There I'll
See you
Safely grown and on your way
I shall see you in my garden
Where loves grows free and wild
Come to my garden
Come, sweet day
Come Spirit, Come Charm
MARY: (spoken)
Come spirit, come charm
Come days that are warm
Come magical spell,
Come help him get well.
DICKON:
Come spirit, come charm
Come days that are warm
Come magical spell
Come help him get well
MARY, DICKON, LILY AND THE DREAMERS:
Spirits far above
Charms aloft, on high
Sweep away the storms
Rumbling 'cross the sky
Speed the rising sun
Make the breeze to blow
Bid the robins sing
Bid the roses grow
ALL:
Come spirit, come charm
Come days that are warm
Come magical spell,
Come help him get well.
A Bit of Earth (Reprise)
ROSE, ALBERT AND LILY:
A bit of earth
A drop of dew, a single stem
Begins to rise
That bit of earth
Is pushed away, the flowers bloom
Before our eyes
For in the earth
A charm's at work
The word is passed
The days are warm
Unfold and grow
The winter's past
We're free from harm
A bit of earth
A bit of earth
Hold On
MARTHA:
What you've got to do is
Finish what you have begun
I don't know just how
But it's not over 'til you've won
When you see the storm is comin'
See the lightning part the skies
It's too late to run
There's terror in your eyes
What you do then is remember
This old thing you heard me say
It's this storm, not you
That's bound to blow away
Hold on
Hold on to someone standin' by
Hold on
Don't even ask how long or why
Child, hold on to what you know is true
Hold on 'til you get through
Child, oh child
Hold on
When you feel your heart is poundin'
Fear a devil's at your door
There's no place to hide
You're frozen to the floor
What you do then is you force yourself
To wake up and you say
It's this dream not me
That's bound to go away
Hold on
Hold on the night will soon be by
Hold on
Until there's nothin' left to try
Child, hold on, there's angels on their way
Hold on and hear them say
Child, oh child
And it doesn't even matter if
The danger and the doom
Come from up above or down below
Or just come flyin' at you
From across the room
When you see a man who's ragin'
And he's jealous and he fears
That you've walked through walls
He's hid behind for years
What you do then is you tell yourself to wait it out
And say it's this day, not me
That's bound to go away
Child, hold on
It's this day, not you
That's bound to go away
Letter Song:
MARY:
D-e-a-r
Uncle Archie
How are you, I'm fine
Everybody else is too
Please come home
[ARCHIBALD APPEARS IN PARIS, READING A LETTER]
ARCHIBALD: (spoken)
Home, I have no home.
MARY:
Martha says that you are in Paris
Is that very far away?
ARCHIBALD: (spoken)
It's a house, child. Just a house...
MARY:
Do they have nice girls and boys there?
ARCHIBALD: (spoken)
...and I can't get far enough away from it.
MARY:
Please come home
MARTHA: (spoken)
Now just sign it.
MARY:
Should I say that Colin's well now?
ARCHIBALD:
Streets of Paris, like a maze
MARY:
Should I say that Dr. Craven...
ARCHIBALD:
Sleepless nights and aimless days
MARTHA:
I think what you have is good
Let's get it posted, on it's way
He'll rush home, then you can tell
Him all the rest you have to say
MARY:
Oh kind sir
Uncle Archie
How I wish that you could see
When you come into the garden
Please come home
Yours truly,
ARCHIBALD:
Can't forget
Can't eat or sleep or live
Can't forgive
MARTHA: (spoken)
Well maybe.
MARY:
Sincerely?
MARTHA: (spoken)
Well how about?
MARY:
Your friend, Mary
Where In the World:
ARCHIBALD:
Now I see you in the window
Of a carriage, then a train
Still my mind will not accept that
In your grave you must remain
Now I hear your voice, then turn and
See a stranger's form and face
Must I wander on tormented
Place to place to place to place
Where can I go that you won't find me
Why can't I find a place to hide
Why do you want to chase me, haunt me
Every step there beside me
Where in the world, tell me, where in the world
Can I live without your love
Where on the earth, tell me, where on the earth
Can I stay now that you are gone
Why did I have to meet you, love you
Why can't I rid you from my mind
Why did you have to want me
Won't you let me put my life behind me
How in the world, tell me, how in the world
Can I live without your love
Why on the earth, tell me, why on the earth
Should I stay now that you are gone
Now that you are ...
(spoken)
Lily, is that you?
How Could I Ever Know
LILY:
How could I know I would have to leave you
How could I know I would hurt you so
You were the one I was born to love
Oh, how could I ever know
How could I ever know
How can I say to go on without me
How when I know you still need me so
How can I say not to dream about me
How could I ever know
How could I ever know
Forgive me
Can you forgive me
And hold me in your heart
And find some new way to love me
Now that we're apart
How could I know I would never hold you
Never again in this world
But oh, sure as you breathe
I am there inside you
How could I ever know
How could I ever know
ARCHIBALD:
How can I hope to go without you
How can I know where you'd have me go
How can I bear not to dream about you
How can I let you go
LILY:
How could I ever know
ARCHIBALD:
All I need is
LILY:
Is there in the garden
ARCHIBALD:
All I would ask is
LILY:
Is care for the child of
ARCHIBALD:
Our love
LILY:
Come, go with me
Safe I will keep you
ARCHIBALD:
Where you would lead me
There I would
LILY:
There I would, there we would
LILY AND ARCHIBALD:
There we will go
How, how could I know
Tell me, how, how could I know
Ever to know you will never leave me
How could we ever know
How could I ever know
LILY:
Come to my garden...
Finale
LILY AND THE DREAMERS:
Come to my garden
Nestled in the hill
There I'll keep you safe
Beside me
Come to my garden
Rest there in my arms
There I'll see you
Safely grown and on your way
LILY, ROSE AND ALBERT:
Stay here in the garden
As days grow long and mild
LILY:
Come to the garden
Come, sweet child