Wigmaker Sequence: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Sweeney'd Waited Too Long Before" / The Letter

Mr. Todd! Mr. Todd!

I've found her

I found Johanna

You have?

That monster of a judge has had her locked away in Fogg's Asylum

Oh, Mr. Todd

She's in there with those screeching, gibbering maniacs-

A madhouse! A madhouse!

Johanna is as good as rescued

She is?

Where do you suppose all the wigmakers

Of London go to obtain their human hair?

Where?

Bedlam. They get their hair from the lunatics at Bedlam

For the right amount they'll sell you the hair off any madman's head

Come!

We will write a letter arranging a visit

And offering to this Mr Fogg

The highest price for hair of the exact shade of Johanna's

Which I trust you know?

Yellow

No, not exact enough

I must make you into a credible wigmaker - and quickly

There's tawny and there's golden saffron

There's flaxen and there's blonde

Repeat that. Repeat that!

Yes, Mr. Todd

Well?

There's tawny and there's golden saffron

There's flaxen and there's blonde

Good

There's coarse and fine

There's straight and curly

There's grey, there's white (There's coarse and fine)

There's ash, there's pearly (There's straight and curly)

There's corn-yellow (There's grey, there's white)

Buff and ochre and (There's ash, there's pearly)

Straw and apricot (There's corn-yellow)

Sweeney'd waited too long before-

"Ah, but never again," he swore

Fortune arrived. "Sweeney!" it sang

Sweeney was ready, and Sweeney sprang

Sweeney's problems went up in smoke

All resolved with a single stroke

Sweeney was sharp, Sweeney was burning

Sweeney began the engines turning

Sweeney's problems went up in smoke (Sweeney!)

All resolved with a single stroke (With a single stroke)

By Sweeney!

Sweeney, Sweeney, Sweeney, Sweeney