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SNOW WHITE (1999)
Lyrics to ALL 19 Songs

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words & music © Ken Lonnquist
 

click on song titles to see video of the 2014 production!

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1.  Fairy Tale Overture

 

We three are Fairies. This is a Fairy Tale

Light and airy...  and sometimes scary tale

Our aging Minstrel dressed up in his leotard

Will do his very best impression of The Bard

“I shall strum the songs anon...”

And now, presenting, for everyone’s delight:

The story of Snow White...

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2. Light In The Shadows

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Make her a beauty, lips red as blood

Hair black as raven, soul pure as snow

And let love's light shine everywhere that she goes

All over this world

Through the dark night 

Make her a light in the shadows!

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3. Light In The Shadows (Reprise)

 

Make her remember when I am gone

how much I loved her

Shining love's light from beyond

Wherever she goes in this world

Whatever befalls

Through the dark night 

I'll be her light in the shadows!

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4. Evil Queenevil

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Minstrel: 

Time was passing, far from slow 

(you know the way these stories go)...

There came a new Queen on the block---and she was quite a shock

 

Servants:

Her nails were long, her smile a sneer, 

her motivation all too clear:

She longed to be the shining light

 

Minstrel: 

(You knew she’d hate Snow White)

 

Minstrel & Servants

She’s mean, she’s green, 

she’s a black magic machine!

She’s shrill until you surrender to her will

Every icy glance---a chill.

Every potion, every pill

she mix-es makes-you ill

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Queen:

Evil Queenevil’s the name 

Servants:

Medieval Deevil’s her game

Queen:

Evil Queenevil---that’s me

Servants:

And we’re her new employees...

Queen:

On your knees! 

Servants:

(intake of breath)

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5. Lullaby

 

Queen:

Look, looking-glass upon the wall

Whose face is fairest of them all?

Mirror:

In all the land none may be seen

Fairer than you, My Lady, Queen

 

Queen:

All is well... in harmony soothing as a La-la-la-la-lullaby

Mirror, Fairies & Servants:

La-la-la-la-lullaby...

Queen:

La-la-la-la-lullaby

Mirror, Fairies & Servants:

La-la-la-la-lull-a-by

Queen:

There’s no harm in spell or charm if it’s pleasing to the eye

So goodnight...

Mirror, Fairies & Servants join:

with lullaby

 

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​6. Lullaby (Gone Wrong)

 

Queen:

Look, looking-glass upon the wall

Whose face is fairest of them all?

Mirror:

My lady, you are fair, tis true

But Snow White fairer is than you

Queen:

“Gak!”

 

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​​7. Moon's Sphere

 

Huntsman

I cannot, as I ought, what the Queen commands me

With this knife take your life. No... the thought unmans me 

 

Snow White

I shall run into the woods

Following the moon’s sphere... the moon’s sphere

Huntsman: 

And I shall kill a bear instead with it’s heart still dripping red

As a token for the Queen to prove I’ve done this wicked thing

 

Snow White

Through the trees, through the wood, swiftly will I wander

Pathways wild, ill or good, I’ve no time to ponder

But I shall not be afraid 

Following the moon’s sphere... the moon’s sphere

Though there may be wolves and bears come to take me unawares

Fang and claw for flesh and bone

In this forest all alone...

 

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​​8. Seven

 

Snow White:

Seven little chairs and seven little plates

Seven little spoons and forks and knives

Seven little mugs for seven little mates

To lift up in a toast to seven wives

(Spoken) “Oh, no. They must be bachelors“

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Seven little blankets, seven little beds

Seven little hooks upon the wall

Seven little pillows for seven little heads

Well... that’s my lucky number, after all...

 

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​​9We Are

 

Stone, Bone, Water and Woos​

Fire and Ice and Wind are we...

We are!

Stone, Bone, Water and Woos​

Fire and Ice and Wind are we...

We are!

 

Tromping through the woods

Tromping on our way back home!

Not to be confused

With those pesky Elves and Gnomes!

 

Stone, Bone, Water and Woos​

Fire and Ice and Wind are we...

We are!

 

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10Shoveling

 

Up before the crack of dawn

Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling

Workin’ till the sun is gone

Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling

With no health or dental plan

Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling

Makes ya feel like half a ma...

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Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling! Pickaxe!

Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling! Pickaxe!

Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling! Pickaxe!

Shoveling, shoveling, everybody shoveling! Pickaxe!

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11Gather

 

Dwarves:

Gather ‘round the fire... sundown

Tell a story till it comes back ‘round

While we’re sleeping, please play.

Sing a song about the break of day

 

Snow White:

We grow older every day

Dwarves:

Circles turning children gray

 

Snow White:

Anyone in the world in a window...

Starlit like me

Anyone in the world in a window sees...

Anywhere in the world that the wind blows...

there’s a whisper of me

Anywhere in the world that the wind blows free...

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​12Lullaby (Gone Way Wrong)

 

Queen:

Now, looking-glass upon the wall

Whose face is fairest of them all?

Well? 

 

Mirror:

My lady, thine is beauty rare,

but Snow White living in the glen

There with the seven little men

is yet a thousand times more fair!

 

Queen:

This is ill... you’re telling me wicked, hateful 

Queen, Minstrel & Servants

Lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lies, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lies

Lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lies, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lies

 

Queen:

Now some harm, through spell or charm

I must bring this lady nigh:

my good-night, last-lullaby...

 

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13. Black Magically

 

Queen:

How I’ll laugh when it is done:

Undisputed “Fairest One”!

For these things do best please me

that befall black-magically

 

Mirror & Servants:

Black-magically, black-magically

Queen:

Black-magically

Mirror & Servants:

Black-magically, black-magically

Queen:

Black-magically

Mirror & Servants:

Black-magically, black-magically

 

Queen:

Look at these moves---I’m wild and wicked!

Stirrin’ up the cauldron

Couple ‘a bat wings and a cricket

Ooh! I think I’ve enthralled one!

(Queen sits in audience member’s lap)

 

Mirror & Servants:

Black magic

Queen:

My favorite recipe:

Stirring up trouble---black magically!

 

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14. Home

 

Dwarves:

Home! We got a home!

We got a home and it’s made of stone

Leave the trees to the Elves and the woodland Gnomes...

We got our own stone home!

Home! Home! Home! Ho-o-ome!

We got a home!

Home! Home! Home! Ho-o-ome!

We got a home in the woods we roam

Not a tree nor a trail is by us unknown

We got our own stone home!

Home! Home! Home! Ho-o-ome!

Home! Home! Home! Ho-o-ome!

 

Snow White:

I say home is less a place than a certain feeling

Any place you’re happiest... that’s home! Home...

 

Dwarves:

Home!

Home! Home! Home! Hoo-oome!

 We got a home!

Home! Home! Home! Hoo-oome!

We got a home and it’s made of stone

Leave the trees to the Elves and the woodland Gnomes...

We got our own stone home! 

Home! Home! Home! Hoo-oome!

Here where our hearts call home!
Home! Home! Home! Hoo-oome!

We got a place called home!

Home!

 

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15. Apples

 

Crone:

Would you like a tasty apple, little girl?

Take a bite from this one: 

the sweetest in all the world

They say if you eat an apple everyday---

Healthy and delicious—

it keeps the Doctor away!

 

Snow White:

Never take a treat from strangers

That’s what I was always taught

Crone:

But an apple holds no dangers

Take my gift... you really ought

Mustn’t hurt a woman’s feelings! 

Mustn’t disrespect a crone!

Youthless, toothless, unappealing... 

take this apple for your own!

 

Yes, that’s right! You smell it... 

bring it to your lips

Such a dreamy apple...

is at your fingertips

 

Crone:

This is truly an apple... to die for!

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16. Remedy

 

Prince:

Lovely maiden under glass 

sleeping as the world goes past

Unaware of smiles or tears, 

untouched by the passing years

Could the kiss of true love be 

offered her as remedy... remedy... remedy?

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17. Light In The Shadows (Duet)

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Prince:

Sweet waking beauty... 

lips red as blood

Hair black as raven’s... pure as the snow

 

Prince & Snow White

Let my love’s light 

shine everywhere that you go

All over this world.

Through the dark night,

I’ll be your light

In the sha-a-adows

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18Remember

 

Snow White:

I have a hard time believin’...

yesterday’s gone

The end of our song has come

and it’s time now for leavin’

Yesterday’s gone...

tomorrow’s on

it’s way in through the door

And what was won’t be anymore,

but I’ll have this song long gone

To remember

 

Dwarves:

We had no way of knowing

how much we’d care

Having you there, but we

see it’s time now for goin’

 

Snow White:

The road stretches on...

soon I’ll be gone, 

 

Snow White & Dwarves:

But wherever I go

I just want you to know

I’ll have this song long gone

to remember.

 

Snow White:

Remember...

 

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19Now The Hungry Lion Roars

Lyrics by William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Minstrel:

Now the hungry lion roars...

and the wolf behowls the moon

Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,

all with weary task fordone

Now the wasted brands do glow...

whilst the screech-owl screeches loud

Puts the wretch that lies in woe

in remembrance of a shroud

Now it is the time of night...

that the graves all gaping wide

Every one lets forth his sprite

in the church-way paths to glide

 

Fairies:

And we fairies, that do run

by the triple Hecate’s team

From the presence of the sun

Minstrel:

following darkness as a dream

Now are frolic

Fairies:

Now are frolic, 

Minstrel:

Not a mouse

Fairies:

Not a mouse

 All:

Shall disturb this hallow’d house

Airy:

I am sent

Others:

I am sent

Merry:

With broom before

Others:

With broom before

 Contrary:

To sweep

Others:

To sweep 

Contrary:

the dust

Others:

the dust 

Contrary:

Behind the door

 Minstrel:

To sweep

Fairies:

to sweep 

Minstrel:

the dust

Fairies:

the dust 

Minstrel:

Behind the door

Good night...

and may the Fairies bring you

sweet slumber...

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