Musical/ Broadway Lyrics

No Place Like London- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

- Spoken Todd

*- Spoken Antony

*Antony

  Todd

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*I have sailed the world beheld its wonders 

*From the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru 

*But there's no place like London 

No there's no place like London

*- Mr. Todd? 

You are young 

Life has been kind to you 

You will learn

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit 

And the vermin of the world inhabit it 

And its morals aren't worth what a pig can 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 a wondrous as Peru

But there's no place like London

*- Is everything alright Mr. Todd 

 - I beg your indulgence Antony 

 - My mind is far from easy 

 - In these once familiar streets 

 - I feel shadows everywhere 

*- Shadows?

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

*- The lady, sir, did she succumb

Oh that was many years ago

I doubt if anyone would know 

 - I'd like to thank you Antony 

 - If you hadn't spotted me 

 - I'd be lost on the ocean still 

*- Will I see you again

 - You might find me if you like 

- Around fleet street 

- I wouldn't wonder 

*- Till then my friend 

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit

 And its filled with people who are filled with shit

And the vermin of the world inhabit it