A Little Priest (Highlights Version) Lyrics & Tabs by Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter
A Little Priest (Highlights Version)
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LOVETT: Seems a downright shame.
TODD: Shame?
LOVETT: Seems an awful waste...
Such a nice, plump frame
Wot's 'is name has...
Had...
Has!
Nor it can't be traced...
Bus'ness needs a lift,
debts to be erased...
Think of it as thrift,
as a gift,
If you get my drift!
Seems an awful waste...
I mean, with the price of meat
If you get my drift!
Seems an awful waste...
I mean, with the price of meat
what it is,
when you get it,
if you get it...
TODD: Hah!
LOVETT: Good, you got it!
Take, for instance, Mrs. Mooney and her pie shop!
Bus'ness never better using only pussycats and toast!
Now, a pussy's good for maybe six or seven at the most!
And I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste!
TODD: Mrs. Lovett, what a charming notion
TODD: Eminently practical
And yet appropriate as always!
Mrs. Lovett, how I've lived without you all these years, I'll never know!How delectable!
Also undetectable! [.soon be comin' for a shave,]
LOVETT: won't they?
Think of
All them
Pies!
TODD: For what's the sound of the world out there?
LOVETT: What, Mr. Todd? What, Mr. Todd? What is that sound?
TODD: Those crunching noises pervading the air!
LOVETT: Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, all around!
TODD: It's man devouring man, my dear!
BOTH: And who are we to deny it in here?
TODD: What is that?
LOVETT: It's priest. Have a little priest.
TODD: Is it really good?
LOVETT: Sir, it's too good, at least!
Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, so it's pretty fresh.
TODD: Awful lot of fat.
LOVETT: Only where it sat.
TODD: Haven't you got poet, or something like that?
LOVETT: No, y'see, the trouble with poet is 'ow do you now it's deceased?
Try the priest!
Lawyer's rather nice.
TODD: If it's for a price.
LOVETT: Order something else, though, to follow, since no one should swallow it twice!
TODD: Anything that's lean.
LOVETT: Well, then, if you're British and loyal, you might enjoy Royal Marine!
Anyway it's clean.
Though of course, the tastes of wherever it's been!
TODD: Is that squire, on the fire?
LOVETT: Mercy no, sir, look closer, you'll notice it's grocer!
TODD: Looks thicker,
more like vicar!
LOVETT: No it has to be grocer.It's green!
TODD: The history of the world, my love.
LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, do a lot of relatives favors!
TODD: Is those below serving those up above!
LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, so there should be plenty of flavors!
TODD: How gratifying for once to know.
BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!
TODD: What is that?
LOVETT: It's fop.
Finest in the shop.
And we have some shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top!
And I've just begun.
Here's the politician, so oily it's served with a doily, have one!
TODD: Put it on a bun.
Well, you never know if it's going to run!
LOVETT: Try the friar, fried is drier!
TODD: No the clergy is really too coarse and too mealy!
LOVETT: Then actor, it's compacter!
TODD: Ah! But always arrives overdone!
I'll come again when you have judge on the menu!
Have charity towards the world, my pet!
LOVETT: Yes, yes, I know, my love!
TODD: We'll take the cuctomers that we can get!
LOVETT: High-born and low, my love!
TODD: We'll not discriminate great from small!
No we'll serve anyone,
meaning anyone BOTH: And to anyone.
At all!
