The Virginia Company (Menken / Schwartz)

In 1607 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

Hm hm hm hm hm hm hm .....
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
with a nugget for my Winnie and another one for me
and all the rest'll go to The Virginia Company
it's glory, God and gold and The Virginia Company

Reprise:
We'll kill ourselves an injun or maybe two or three
We're stalwart men and bold of the Virginia Company
hm hm hm hm hm hm hm ....
it's glory, God, and gold and The Virginia Company

Steady as the beating drum (Menken / Schwartz)

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

Oh Great Spirit, hear our song
help us keep the ancient ways
keep the sacred fire strong
walk in balance all our days

Seasons go and seasons come
steady as the beating drum
plum to seed to bud to plum
steady as the beating drum

Reprise:
As the river cuts his path
though the river's proud and strong
he will choose the smoothest course
that's why rivers live so long
they're steady, as the steady beating drum

Just around the riverbend (Menken / Schwartz)

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 where the gulls fly free
don't know what for what I dream the day might send
jut around the riverbend for me
coming for me

I feel it there beyond those trees
or right behind these waterfalls
can I ignore that sound of distant drumming
for a handsome sturdy husband
who builds handsome sturdy walls
and never dreams that something might be coming ?
just around the riverbend
just around the riverbend

I look once more just around the riverbend
beyond the shore, somewhere past the sea
don't know what for, why do all my dreams extend
just around the riverbend ?
just around the riverbend

Should I choose the smoothest curve
steady as the beating drum ?
should I marry Kocoum ?
is all my dreaming at an end ?
or do you still wait for me, dream giver
just around the riverbend ?

Listen with your heart (Menken / Schwartz)

Que que na-to-ra, you will understand
listen with your heart, you will understand
let it break upon you, like a wave upon the sand

Listen with your heart, you will understand
(you will understand)

(Parts of the lyrics will be sung again later in the movie)

Mine mine mine (Menken / Schwartz)

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
it's gold and it's mine, mine, mine

Dig and dig and dig and diggety
dig and dig and dig and diggety
dig and dig and dig and diggety .... (cont.)

Hey nonny nonny, ho nonny nonny
oh, how I love it
hey nonny nonny, ho nonny nonny
riches for cheap
hey nonny nonny, ho nonny nonny
there'll be heaps of it
and I'll be on top of the heap
(....and we dig and we dig and we dig)

My rivals back home, it's not that I'm bitter
but think how they'll squirm when they see how I glitter
the ladies at court will be all a' twitter (ohh)
the king will reward me, he'll knight me
no, lord me, when

It's mine, mine, mine for the taking
it's mine, boys, mine me that gold
with those nuggets dug it
it's glory they'll gimme
my dear friend, King Jimmy
will probably build me a shrine
when all of the gold is mine

Dig and dig and dig and diggety
dig and dig and dig and diggety - dig

All of my life, I have searched for a land like this one
a wilder, more challenging country I couldn't desing
hundreds of dangers await and I don't plan to miss one
in a land I can claim, a land I can tame
the greatest adventure is mine - keep on working, lads
mine - don't be shirking, lads
mine, boys (find a mother lode)
mine (then find another load)

Bring me the gold (dig, dig and diggety)
beautiful gold (dig, dig for that gold)
make this island my land
make the mounds big, boys (dig)
I'd help you to dig, boys (dig)
but I've got this crick in me spine
this land we behold
this beauty untold
a man can be bold
it all can be sold
(so go for the gold)
(we know which is here) is
(all the riches here) mine
(from this minute) mine
(this land and what's in it)
is mine (dig and dig and diggety - dig)
(hey nonny nonny nonny it's mine)

Colors of the wind (Menken / Schwartz)

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
now 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

You think the only people who are people
are the people who look and think like you
but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
you'll learn things you never knew you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned ?
can you sing with all the voices of the mountains ?
can you paint with all the colors of the wind ?
can you paint with all the colors of the wind ?

Come, run the hidden pine trails of the forest
come, taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
come, roll in all the riches all around you
and for once, never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
the heron and the otter are my friends
and we are all connected to each other
in a circle, in a hoop that never ends

How high will the sycamore grow ?
Iif you cut it down, then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
for whether we are white or copper skinned
we need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
we need to paint with all the colors of the wind

You can own the Earth and still
all you'll own is Earth until
you can paint with all the colors of the wind

Savages (Menken / Schwartz)

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

They're savages, savages
barely even human
savages, savages
drive them from our shore
they're not like you and me
which means they must be evi
we must sound the drums of war

They're savages, savages
dirty redskin devils
now we sound the drums of war

This is what we feared, the paleface is a demon
the only thing they feel at all is greed
beneath that milky hide
there's emptiness inside
I wonder if they even bleed

They're savages, savages
barely even human
savages, savages
killers at the core
they're different from us
which means they can't be trusted
we must sound the drums of war

They're savages, savages
first we deal with this one
then we sound the drums of war

Savages, savages
let's go kill a few, men
savages, savages
now it's up to you, men
savages, savages
barely even human
now we sound the drums of war

Reprise:
This will be the day - let's go, men
this will be the morning - bring out the prisoner

(We will see them dying in the dust)
I don't know what I can do
still, I know I've got to try
(now we make 'em pay)
eagle, help my feet to fly
(now without a warning)
mountain, help my heart be great
(now we leave 'em blood and bone and rust)
spirits of the earth and sky
(it's them or us - they're just a bunch of filthy, stinking ...)
please don't let it be to late

Savages, savages
demons, devils ,kill them
savages, savages
what are we waiting for ?
destroy their evil race
until there's not a trace left

How loud (we will sound the drums of war)
are the drums of war (now, we sound the drums of war)
now we see what comes
of trying to be chums
(now we sound the drums of ...)
is the death of all I love
carried in the drumming of ... ?
... WAR - NO !

Jon Secada & Shanice - If I never knew you (Menken / Schwartz)

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 truth 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 if I never knew you

If I never knew you
I'd be safe but half as real
never knowing I could feel
a love so strong and true

I'm so grateful to you
I'd have lived my whole life through
lost forever if I never knew you

I thought our love would be so beautiful
somehow we made the whole world bright
I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong
all they'd leave us where these whispers in the night
but still my heart is singing we were right

If I never knew you
if I never knew this love
I would have no inkling of
how precious life can be

There's no moment I regret
since the moment that we met
if our time has gone too fast
I've lived at last

I thought our love would be so beautiful
somehow we'd make the whole world bright
I thought our love would be so beautiful
we'd turn the darkness into light
and still my heart is singing we were right, we were right

And If I never knew you
I'd have lived my whole life through
empty as the sky
never knowing why
lost forever if I never knew you