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
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?
Far too hot, she cried, see, my rose has died
Dig 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
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 who no one sees
There's a girl who's left alone
There's a heart that beats in silence
For the life she's never known
For the life she's never known
HOUSE UPON THE HILL
DREAMERS
High on a 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
Well, you're right not to care
Your uncle certanly isn't going
To trouble himself about you.
DREAMERS
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill
MRS. MEDLOCK
He's a hunchback, you see.
And a sour young man he was,
and got noe good of all his money
and big place til he were married.
MARY
To my aunt Lily?
MRS. MEDLOCK
She were a sweet, pretty thing and he'd
have walked the world over to get here
a blade of grass that she wanted.
When she died, it made him worse than ever.
DREAMERS
High on a 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
Is it always so ugly here?
MRS. MEDLOCK
It's the moor. Miles and miles
of wild land that nothing grows
on but heather and gorse and broom,
and nothin lives on but wild
ponies and sheep.
MARY
What is that awful howling sound?
MRS. MEDLOCK
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 master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill
I HEARD SOMEONE CRYING
LILY
Oooooooooooh
MARY
I heard someone crying
Who tho' 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
LILY
Ooooooooh
ARCHIBALD
I heard someone singing
Who tho' 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
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
LILY
Ooh
I heard someone crying
Tho' 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
MARY AND ARCHIBALD
Maybe I was dreaming of a garden growing far below
Maybe I was dreaming of a life
That I will never know
MARY(LILY) ARCHIBALD
I heard someone crying Lily, where are you, I'm lost without you
Who tho' could it be I can't walk these halls without you
Someone in this house(Ooo...) Lily, where are you, I'm lost wihtout you
Whom no one seems to see(Ooo...) I have searched the world but you're not there
Someone no one seemed to(Ooo...) Come and tell me why you
Hear except for me(Ooo...) Brought me home if you're not here
I heard someone calling My Lily, where are you, I'm lost without you
Maybe it was he Lily, I am lost
(Ooo...) Without you
(Ooo...)
MAJOR HOLMES
I heard someone crying
Who else could it be
Surley it was Mary
Why can no one see
ROSE, CLAIRE, ALICE
Crying for her mother
For the she's never known
ALBERT
So lost
See her lying
In her room alone
LILY
Ooo...
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 off to sea
And land us in an isle of gold
Oh dear, oh dearie me
If I had a chambermaid
I'd take you out to play today
They say that 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 the tree
Or what if 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 bird who speaks to thee
Then come and tell my fine white horse
And me
A GRIL 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 the valley
A girl I hardly knew
A girl at work in her garden
Grew to love me
LILY
From the gate
He called out so kindly
"Lass, wouldst thou 'low me
rest here, 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
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 go, 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 the 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 chambermaids 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 the 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' clean through the night
Come the May I say
The winter's taking flight
Sweeping 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
Rising fast, on fire
Glaring down through 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 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
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 winter walls
See, see now it's starting
And now the mist is liftin' high,
Leavin' bright, blue air
Rollin' clean 'cross the moor
Comes 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 am 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'll 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
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) the key
DICKON
Amd you'll be here to see it
Stand and feel it all the day
Stoop and feel it, stop and hear it
Spring, I say
A BIT OF EARTH
ARCHIBALD
A bit of earth
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 needs
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 1
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
Coming 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!
Aaaaaaaaah
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 hazel 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 ARCHIBALD
She has her eyes She has her eyes
She has Lily's hazel eyes My Lily's hazel eyes
Those eyes that saw me
Those eyes that first I loved so Happy long ago
How can How can
I now forget I now forget
That once I dared That once I dares to be in love
To be alive and whole Alive and whole
In Lily's eyes In Lily's eyes
In Lily's eyes In Lily's eyes
STORM 2
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 tho' 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 crying
FAKIR
I heard someone
AYAH DREAMERS
I heard someone crying Ah
ALICE
Yes, there's someone crying
ROSE
Someone here is crying AH
CLAIRE
Listen, someone's crying
DREAMER WOMEN DREAMER MEN
I heard someone Ah
I heard someone
LILY DREAMERS
I heard someone Ah
Cry 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'm sure 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 overhead
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
Dig it up, and out you go
MAJOR HOLMES
Mistress Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow
CLAIRE DREAMERS
Oh it's dry, she wailed It's a maze this garden
See the iris failed It's a maze of ways
Dig it up, and out you go
FAKIR Something wrong inside it
Mistress Mary
Quite contrary
How does your garden It's a maze this garden
Grow It's a maze of ways
LIEUTENANT WRIGHT FEMALE DREAMERS
Had an early frost High on a hill
MAN AND WOMAN
Now it's gone it's lost Something
Dig it up and out Wrong inside it
You go
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 you garden grow
Had an early frost
Now its 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
There it is! There's the door.
There's the door to the garden.
