Pocahontas

Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

The Virginia Company
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
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 silver rivers flow and gold you pick right off a tree
With a nugget for my Winnie and another one for me
All the rest'll go to the Virginia Company
It's glory, God, and gold and the Virginia Company

The Virginia Company (Reprise)
We'll kill ourselves an injun or maybe two or three
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 (Main Title)
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
Oh 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
Steady as the beating drum

Steady As The Beating Drum (Reprise)
As the river cuts his path
Though the river's proud and strong
He will chose the smoothest course
That's why rivers live so long
They're steady as the steady beating drum

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
Just 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?

Listen With Your Heart I
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
You will understand

Mine, Mine, Mine
Ratcliff:
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, every mountain
And dig, boys, dig 'til you 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

Settlers:
Dig and dig and dig and diggety
Dig and dig and dig and diggety

Wiggins:
Hey nonny nonny, ho nonny nonny

Ratcliff:
Oh how I love it

Wiggins:
Hey nonny nonny, ho nonny nonny

Ratcliff:
Riches for cheap

Wiggins:
Hey nonny nonny, ho nonny nonny

Ratcliff & Wiggins:
They'll be heaps of it

Ratcliff:
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, duggets
It's glory they'll gimme
My dear friend, King Jimmy
Will probably build me a shrine
When all of that gold is mine

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, mine

All:
Make this island my land

Ratcliff:
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

Ratcliff:
This beauty untold

Smith:
A man can be bold

Ratcliff:
It all can be sold

Listen With Your Heart II
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

Colors Of The Wind
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 sun-sweet 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 does 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 mountain
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)
Ratcliff:
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

Settlers:
They're savages, savages
Barely even human
Savages, savages

Ratcliff:
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

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

Kecata:
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

Kecata:
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

Settlers:
Savages, savages

Ben:
Let's go kill a few, men

Native Americans:
Savages, savages

Ratcliff:
Now it's up to you, men

All:
Savages, savages
Barely even human
Now we sound the drums of war

Savages (Part 2)
Ratcliff:
This will be the day, let's go men

Powhatan:
This will be the morning, bring out the prisoner

Settlers & 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

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

Settlers & Native Americans:
Now we leave 'em blood and bone and dust

Pocahontas:
Spirits of the earth and sky

Settlers & Native Americans:
It's them or us

Pocahontas:
Please don't let it be too late

Settlers & Native Americans:
They're just a bunch of filthy stinking

Settlers:
Savages

Native Americans:
Savages

Settlers:
Demons

Native Americans:
Devils

Ratcliff:
Kill them

Native Americans:
Savages

Settlers:
Savages

Ratcliff:
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

Settlers & Native Americans:
We will sound the drums of war
Now we sound the drums of war

Ratcliff:
Now we see what comes of trying to be chums

Settlers:
Now we sound the drums of war

Native Americans:
Of course it means the drums of war

Pocahontas:
Is the death of all I love
Carried in the drumming of war?

Colors Of The Wind (End Title)
Vanessa Williams
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 sun-sweet 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

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue-corn moon?
Or let the eagle tell you where he's been?
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?

How high does 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 mountain
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

If I Never Knew You (End Title)
Jon Secada & Shanice
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

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

I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we made the whole world bright
I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong
All they'd leave us were these whispers in the night
But still my heart is singing we were right

If I never knew you
There's no moment I regret
If I never knew the 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

I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we'd make the whole world bright
I thought our love would be so beautiful
We'd turn the darkness into light
And still my heart is singing we were right
We were right

And If I never knew you, if I never knew you
I'd have lived my whole life through
Empty as the sky
Never knowing why, lost forever
If I never knew you