Music by Alan Menken

Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

ENGLISH SETTLERS
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.

For glory, God and gold, and the
Virginia Company.

On the beaches of Virginny,
there's diamonds like debris,
there's silver rivers flow and gold
you pick right off a tree.

With a nugget for my Winnie,
and another one for me,
and all the rest will go to the
Virginia Company.

It's glory, God and gold, and the
Virginia Company.

ENGLISH SETTLERS
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.

WOMEN & MEN
Hega
hega
yahiye hega
yahiye nehe hega.

Hega
hega
yahiye hega
yahiye nehe hega.

WOMEN
Steady as the beating drum
singing to the cedar flute,
seasons go and season come,
bring the corn and bear the fruit.

WOMEN & MEN
By the waters sweet and clean,
where the mighty sturgeon lives,
plant the squash and reap the bean,
all the earth our mother gives.

O 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 season come
steady as the beating drum.
Plum to seed to bud to plum.

Hega
hega
yahiye hega

Steady as the beating drum.

Hega
hega
yahiye hega
yahiye nehe hega.

Hega
hega
yahiye hega
yahiye nehe hega.

Hega
hega.

POWHATAN
As the river cuts his path,
though the river's proud and strong,
he will choose the smoothest course.
That's why rivers live so long.
They're steady as the steady beating drum.

POCAHONTAS
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 river bend,
waiting just around the river bend.

I look once more
just around the river bend
beyond the shore,
where the gulls fly free.
Don't know what for,
what I dream the day might send
just around the river bend
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 handsome sturdy husband
who builds handsome sturdy walls
and never dreams that something might be coming
just around the river bend?
Just around the river bend...

I look once more
just around the river bend
beyond the shore,
somewhere past the sea.
Don't know what for...
why do all my dreams extend
just around the river bend?
Just around the river bend.

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 river bend?

VOICE OF THE WIND
Ay ay ay ya
ay ay ya

GRANDMOTHER WILLOW
Que que natora,
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.

VOICE OF THE WIND
You will understand.

RATCLIFFE
The gold of Cortés,
the jewels of Pizarro
will look 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 ev'ry mountain and
dig, boys,
dig 'til ya 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!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Dig and dig and dig
and diggety
dig and dig and dig
and diggety
dig and dig and dig (WIGGINS: hey nonny nonny. Ho nonny nonny.)
and diggety (RATCLIFFE: Ooh, how I love it!)
dig and dig and dig (WIGGINS: hey nonny nonny. Ho nonny nonny.)
and diggety (RATCLIFFE: Riches for cheap!)
dig and dig and dig (WIGGINS: hey nonny nonny. Ho nonny nonny.)
and diggety (There'll be heaps of it...)
dig and dig and (RATCLIFFE: And I'll be on top of the heap!)
diggety diggety diggety
dig.

RATCLIFFE
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 all be 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
dug, it's
glory they'll gimme,
my dear friend King Jimmy
will probably build me a shrine

RATCLIFFE & WIGGINS
When all of the gold is mine!

ENGLISH 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.

RATCLIFFE
Keep on working, lads,

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Mine.

RATCLIFFE
don't be shirking, lads.

ENGLISH SETTLERS (RATCLIFFE)
Find a mother lode, (Mine, boys,)
then find another load! (Mine me that)
Dig! (gold.)
Dig!
And diggety!
Dig! (Beautiful gold.)
Dig!
For that gold.

ALL
Make this island,
my land.

RATCLIFFE
Make the mounds big, boys.
I'd help you to dig, boys,
but I've got this crick in my spine.

SMITH
This land we behold...

RATCLIFFE
This beauty untold...

SMITH
A man can be bold!

RATCLIFFE
It all can be sold!

MEN
So go for the gold which we know is here,
all the riches here,
from this minute
this land and what's in it
is mine!

RATCLIFFE
And the gold is mine!

MEN
Dig and dig and dig
and diggety dig!
Hey nonny nonny nonny it's mine!

POCAHONTAS
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 ev'ry 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 role 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,
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.

RATCLIFFE
What can you expect from filthy little heathens?
Here's what you get when races are diverse.
Their skin's a hellish red.
They're only good when dead.
They're vermin, as I said,
and worse.

ENGLISH SETTLERS
They're savages!
Savages!

RATCLIFFE
Barely even human!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Savages!
Savages!

RATCLIFFE
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.

ENGLISH SETTLERS
They're savages!
Savages!
Dirty shrieking devils.
Now we sound the drums of war.

POWHATAN
This is what we feared, the pale-face is a demon.
The only thing they feel at all is greed.

KEKATA
Beneath that milky hide
there's emptiness inside.

1 NATIVE AMERICAN
I wonder if they even bleed!

NATIVE AMERICANS
They're savages!
Savages!
Barely even human!
Savages!
Savages!

POWHATAN
Killers at the core.

KEKATA
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!

2 NATIVE AMERICANS
First we deal with this one.

ALL
Then we sound the drums of war!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Savages!
Savages!

BEN
Let's go kill a few, men!

NATIVE AMERICANS
Savages!
Savages!

RATCLIFFE
Now it's up to you, men!

NATIVE AMERICANS
Savages!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Savages!

ALL
Barely even human.
Now we sound the drums of war.

RATCLIFFE
This will be the day...
Let's go men!

POWHATAN
This will be the morning.
Bring out the prisoner.

ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVE AMERICANS
We will see them dying in the dust.

POCAHONTAS
I don't know what I can do,
sill I know I've got to try.

ENGLISH 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.

ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVE AMERICANS
Now we leave 'em blood and bone and rust.

POCAHONTAS
Spirits of the earth and sky,

ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVE AMERICANS
It's them or us.

POCAHONTAS
please don't let it be too late.

ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVE AMERICANS
They're just a bunch of filthy stinking

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Savages!

NATIVE AMERICANS
Savages!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Demons!

NATIVE AMERICANS
Devils!

RATCLIFFE
Kill them!

NATIVE AMERICANS
Savages!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Savages!

RATCLIFFE
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?

ALL
We will sound the drums of war!
Now we sound the drums of war!

RATCLIFFE
Now we see what comes
of trying to be chums.

NATIVE AMERICANS
Now we sound the drums of war!

ENGLISH SETTLERS
Of course it means the drums of war!

POCAHONTAS
Is the death of all I love
carried by the drumming of war?

MALE
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.

FEMALE
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.

MALE
I thought our love would be so beautiful.

FEMALE
Somehow we'd make the whole world bright.

BOTH
I never thought that fear and hate could be so strong,
all they'd leave us were these whispers in the night,
but still my heart is saying we were right.

FEMALE
Oh.

FEMALE (MALE)
If I never knew you, (There's no moment I regret)
If I never knew this 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 had lived at last.)

BOTH
I thought our love would be so beautiful,
somehow we'd make the whole world bright.

FEMALE
I thought our love would be so beautiful,
we'd turn the darkness into light.

BOTH
And still my heart is saying we were right.

MALE
We were right.

MALE (FEMALE)
And if I never knew you, (If I never knew you,)
I'd have lived my whole life through

FEMALE
empty as the sky,

BOTH
never knowing why,
lost forever
if I never knew you.