OLIVER! SOUNDTRACK LYRICS
Oliver
MR. BUMBLE
For what you are about to receive
May the Lord make you truly thankful.
BOYS
Amen!
OLIVER
(spoken) Please, Sir, I want some more.
MR. BUMBLE
(spoken) What?!
OLIVER
(spoken) Please, Sir, I want some... more.
MR. BUMBLE
(spoken) More!?
WIDOW CORNEY
Catch him!
MR. BUMBLE
Snatch him!
WIDOW CORNEY
Hold him!
MR. BUMBLE
Scold him!
WIDOW CORNEY
Pounce him!
Trounce him!
Pick him up and bounce him!
MR. BUMBLE
Wait!
Before we put the lad to task
May I be so curious as to ask
His name?
BOYS (whispering)
O-li-ver.
WIDOW CORNEY AND MR. BUMBLE
Oliver! Oliver!
MR. BUMBLE
Never beofre has a boy wanted more!
MR. BUMBLE AND WIDOW CORNEY
Oliver! Oliver!
WIDOW CORNEY
Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store.
MR. BUMBLE
There's a dark, thin, winding stairway
Without any bannister
Which we'll throw him down, and feed him on
Cockrouches served in a canister
ALL
Oliver! Oliver!
MR. BUMBLE
What will he do when he's turned black and blue?
He will curse the day
Somebody named him
ALL
O-li-ver!
MR. BUMBLE
Oliver! Oliver!
Never before has a boy wanted more!
Oliver! Oliver!
WIDOW CORNEY
Won't ask for more
When he knows what's in store.
MR. BUMBLE
There's a sooty chimney
Long overdue for a sweeping out
Which we'll push him up,
And one day next year with the rats he'll be creeping out.
ALL
Oliver! Oliver!
MR. BUMBLE
What will he do?
In this terrible stew?
He will rue the day somebody named him...
ALL AND WIDOW CORNEY
O-li-ver!
GOVERNORS
Oliver!
Oliver!
Never before has a boy asked for more
Oliver!
Oliver!
CHAIRMAN
Pray some decorum restore, I implore...
Let us face this case, it's
Unprecedented, quite utterly.
GOVERNORS
He's disgraced this place.
LARGE GOVERNOR
And encouraging others to swallow in gluttony.
ALL
Oliver!...Oliver!
Lock him in gaol
And then put him on sale,
For the highest bid
Glad to be rid
Of
O-li-ver!
WIDOW CORNEY
(spoken) Lock him up! Collect his belongings then bring him back to me
when you've done. To bed, all of you!