Poor Thing

Stephen Sondheim

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Mrs. Lovett

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...
(spoken)
Barker his name was.
Benjamin Barker.

Sweeney Todd (spoken)

Transported? What was his crime?

Mrs. Lovett

Foolishness...
He had this wife, ya see.
Pretty little thing,
silly little nit.
Had her chance for the moon on a string...
Poor thing!
Poor thing!
There were these two, ya see...
Wanted her like mad!
One of them a judge
one of them his beadle!
Everyday they'd nudge and they'd weadle!
Still she wouldn't budge from her needle!
Too bad!
Pure thing!
So they merely shipped them for blighter off south, they did!
Leaving her with nothing but grief and a year old kid!
Did she use her head even then? Oh no, God forbid!
Poor fool!
Ah, but there was worse yet to come!
Poor thing!
(spoken)
Johanna, that was the baby's name. Pretty little Johanna.

Sweeney Todd (spoken)

Go on...

Mrs. Lovett (spoken)

My, but you do like a good story, don't you?
(sung)
Well, Beadle calls on her all poor light
Poor thing!
Poor thing!
The judge, he tells her, is all contright.
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 having this ball all in masks.
There's no one she knows there!
Poor dear!
Poor thing!
She wonders, 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 contright!
She wasn't no match for such craft, ya see.
And everyone thought it so drull.
They figured she had to be daft, ya see.
So all of them stood there and laughed, ya see!
Poor soul!
Poor thing!

Sweeney Todd (spoken)

Would no one have mercy on her!?

Mrs. Lovett (spoken)

So it is you, Benjamin Barker!

Sweeney Todd (spoken)

NOT BARKER! NOT BARKER! (taking her by the neck)
TODD NOW! SWEENEY TODD!

Mrs. Lovett (spoken)

Oh, you poor thing...
You poor thing...
Wait.
See?
When they come for the little girl, I hid 'em.
I thought, "who knows?"
maybe the poor silly blighter will be back again someday and need 'em.
Cracked in the head, wasn't I?
Times as bad as they are I maybe could've got five or ten quid for 'em any day. See?

sweeney todd: "Você tem um quarto em cima da loja, não tem? Se os tempos estão tão difíceis, porque você não o aluga?"
mrs. lovett: "As pessoas dizem que é assombrado."
sweeney todd: "Assombrado?"
mrs. lovett: "Sim. E quem pode dizer que estão errados? Algo aconteceu lá anos atrás. Algo não muito agradável."

Havia um barbeiro e sua esposa
E ele era lindo
Um legítimo artista com a navalha
Mas eles o prenderam por toda a vida
E ele era lindo

"Barker, era seu nome. Benjamin Barker."

sweeney todd: "Qual foi o crime dele?"
mrs. lovett: "Ingênuidade."

Ele tinha essa esposa, você sabe
Bonitinha
Tolinha
Teve sua chance de que tudo desse certo
Pobrezinha
Pobrezinha

Havia esse juíz, você sabe
A queria feito louco
Todos os dia lhe mandava flores
Mas ela não descia de sua torre
Sentava lá e chorava por horas
Bobinha
Ah, mas o pior estava por vir, pobrezinha

Bem, o Beadle foi chamá-la educadamente
Pobrezinha
Pobrezinha
O juíz, ele fala, está arrependido
E se culpa por seu sofrimento
Ela deve ir à sua casa esta noite
Pobrezinha
Pobrezinha

Claro que quando ela chegou lá, pobrezinha, pobrezinha
Estava havendo um baile de máscaras
Não havia ninguém que ela conheçesse, coitadinha, pobrezinha
Ela sente-se atormentada e bebe, pobrezinha
O juíz se arrependeu, ela pensa, pobrezinha
'Oh, onde está o juíz Turpin?' ela se pergunta
Ele estava lá
Mas não tão arrependido

Ela não estava preparada para tanto, você sabe
E todo acharam muito engraçado
Eles acharam que ela devia ser abobalhada, você sabe
E todos começaram a rir, você sabe
Pobre alma
Pobrezinha

sweeney todd: "NÃO! Ninguém teve piedade dela?"
mrs. lovett: "Então é você. Benjamin Barker."
sweeney todd: "Não. Não Barker. Aquele homem morreu. É Todd agora. Sweeney Todd. E ele terá sua vingança."