The Barber And His Wife

- Len Cariou (1979)

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You are listening to the song The Barber And His Wife by Len Cariou, writer by Stephen Sondheim in album Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street: Original Broadway Cast Recording CD1. The highest quality of audio that you can download is flac . Also, you can play quality at 32kbps, view lyrics and watch more videos related to this song.

Album: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street: Original Broadway Cast Recording CD1.

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There was a barber and his wife
And she was beautiful
A foolish barber and his wife
She was his reason and his life
And she was beautiful
And she was virtuous
And he was
Naive.

There was another man who saw
That she was beautiful
A pious vulture of the law
Who with a gesture of his claw
Removed the barber from his plate
Then there was nothing but to wait
And she would fall
So soft, so young, so lost
And oh, so beautiful!

And the lady, sir did she succumb?

Oh, that was many years ago
I doubt if anyone would know
Now, leave me, Anthony, I beg of you
There's somewhere I must go, something I must find out. Now. And alone
Well, until then, Mr. Todd.

There's a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
And it's filled with people
Who are filled with shit
And the vermin of the world
Inhabit it...