Stephen Schwartz
Savages
[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
Which means they must be evil
We must sound the drums of war

[ENGLISH SETTLERS]
They're savages, savages
Dirty shrieking devils
[RATCLIFFE & ENGLISH SETTLERS]
Now we sound the drums of war

[POWHATAN]
This is what we feared
The paleface is a demon
The only thing they feel at all is greed

[KEKATA]
Beneath that milky hide
There's emptiness inside

[NATIVES]
I wonder if they even bleed
They're savages, savages

[POWHATAN & NATIVES]
Barely even human

[NATIVES]
Savages, savages

[POWHATAN]
Killers at the core

[KEKATA]
They're different from us
Which means they can't be trusted
[POWHATAN]
We must sound the drums of war

[NATIVES]
They're savages, savages
First we deal with this one
Then we sound the drums of war

[ENGLISH SETTLERS]
Savages, savages

[BEN]
Let's go get a few, men

[NATIVES]
Savages, savages

[RATCLIFFE]
Now it's up to you, men

[ALL]
Savages, savages
Barely even human
Now we sound the drums of war

[INSTRUMENTAL]
[RATCLIFFE]
This will be the day
(Spoken)
Let's go men

[POWHATAN]
This will be the morning
(Spoken)
Bring out the prisoner

[NATIVES]
We will see them dying in the dust

[POCAHONTAS]
I don't know what I can do
Still I know I've got to try

[RATCLIFFE & ENGLISH SETTLERS]
Now we make them pay

[POCAHONTAS]
Eagle help my feet to fly

[NATIVES]
Now without a warning

[POCAHONTAS]
Mountain help my heart be great

[NATIVES]
Now we leave 'em blood and bone and rust

[POCAHONTAS]
Spirits of the Earth and Sky

[ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVES]
It's them or us

[POCAHONTAS]
Please don't let it be too late

[ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVES]
They're just a bunch of filthy, stinking

[NATIVES]
Savages

[ENGLISH SETTLERS]
Savages

[NATIVES]
Demons

[ENGLISH SETTLERS]
Devils

[RATCLIFFE]
Kill them

[NATIVES]
Savages

[ENGLISH SETTLERS]
Savages

[RATCLIFFE]
What are we waiting for?

[RATCLIFFE, ENGLISH SETTLERS, & NATIVES]
Destroy their evil race until there's not a trace left

[POCAHONTAS]
How loud are the drums of the war?

[RATCLIFFE, ENGLISH SETTLERS, & NATIVES]
We will sound the drums of war
Savages, Savages
Now we sound the drums of war
Savages, Savages

[ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVES]
Now we see what comes of trying to be chums
Now we sound the drums of ...

[POCAHONTAS]
Is this the death of all I love carried in the drumming of

[ENGLISH SETTLERS & NATIVES]
War