Sweeney Todd Song Lyrics

No Place Like London

Anthony:

I have sailed the world

beheld its wonders

From the Dardanelles to the

Mountains of Peru,

But there's No Place Like London!

Sweeney Todd:

No there's no place like London

Anthony: (spoken) Mr Todd?

Sweeney Todd: You are young,

Life has been kind to you

You will learn

[Instrumental]

Sweeney Todd:

There's a hole in the world

Like a great black pit and

the vermin of the world inhabit it

and it's morals aren't worth

what a pig could spit

and it goes by the name of London.

At the top of the hole

sit a privileged few

making mock of the

vermin in the lower zoo,

turning beauty into

filth and greed....

I too have sailed the world

and seen its wonders.

For the cruelty of men

is as wondrous as Peru.

But there's No Place Like London!

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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

And 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!

Anthony (spoken)

And the lady sir, did she succumb?

Todd: (sung)

Oh that was many years ago

I doubt if anyone would know......

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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...