Pocahontas lyrics

[Ratcliffe]

The gold of Cortés

The jewels of Pizarro

Will seem like mere trinkets

By this time tomorrow

The gold we find here

Will dwarf them by far

Oh, with all ya got in ya, boys

Dig up Virginia, boys

Mine, boys, mine ev'ry mountain

And dig, boys, dig 'til ya drop

Grab a pick, boys

Quick, boys

Shove in a shovel

Uncover those lovely

Pebbles that sparkle and shine

[Ratcliffe]

What can you expect

From filthy little heathens?

Their whole disgusting race is like a curse

Their skin's a hellish red

They're only good when dead

They're vermin, as I said

And worse

[English Settlers]

They're savages! Savages!

[Ratcliffe]

Barely even human

[English Settlers]

Savages! Savages!

[Ratcliffe]

Drive them from our shore!

They're not like you and me

[Pocahontas]

Is there nothing I can do?

Will this really be the end?

Is it only death that waits

Just around the riverbend?

[Ratcliffe]

This will be the day ...

(Let's go men!)

[Powhatan]

This will be the morning ...

(Bring out the prisoner)

[English Settlers and Native Americans]

We will see them dying in the dust

[Pocahontas]

I don't know what I can do

[Men]

In sixteen hundred seven

We sail the open sea

For glory, God, and gold

And The Virginia Company

For the New World is like heaven

And we'll all be rich and free

Or so we have been told

By The Virginia Company

For glory, God and gold

And The Virginia Company

On the beaches of Virginny

There's diamonds like debris

There's silver rivers flow

And gold you pick right off a tree

[Pocahontas]

You think I'm an ignorant savage

And you've been so many places

I guess it must be so

But still I cannot see

If the savage one is me

How can there be so much that you don't know?

You don't know ...

You think you own whatever land you land on

The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

[Pocahontas]

What I love most about rivers is:

You can't step in the same river twice

The water's always changing, always flowing

But people, I guess, can't live like that

We all must pay a price

To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing

What's around the riverbend

Waiting just around the riverbend

I look once more

Just around the riverbend

Beyond the shore

If I never knew you
If I never felt this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be
And if I never held you
I would never have a clue
How at last I'd find in you
The missing part of me

In this world so full of fear
Full of rage and lies
I can see the true so clear
In your eyes
So dry your eyes

And I'm so grateful to you
I'd have lived my whole life through
Lost forever

[Native Americans]

Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega

Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega

Hega hega ya-hi-ye-hega

Ya-hi-ye-ne-he hega

Steady as the beating drum

Singing to the cedar flute

Seasons go and seasons come

Bring the corn and bear the fruit

By the waters sweet and clean

Where the mighty sturgeon lives

Plant the squash and reap the bean

All the earth our mother gives

O Great Spirit, hear our song