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Scene: A Train Platform in Yorkshire/The House Upon the Hill
Barbara Rosenblat; Daisy Egan
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Mary Lennox? I'm your uncle's housekeeper
I suppose you'd like to know somewhat about where you're going
Would I?
Well don't you care about your new home then?
It's doesn't matter whether I care or not
Now, in all my years
I've never seen a child sit so still or look so old
High on a hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it
Spirits haunt the halls
And make no effort now to hide it
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What will put their souls to rest
And stop their ceaseless sighing
Why do they call out children's names
And speak of one who's crying
Well you're right not to care
You're uncle certainly isn't going to trouble himself about you
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill
He's a hunchback you see, and a sour young man he was
And got no good of all his money and big place 'til he were married
To my Aunt Lily?
She were a sweet pretty thing
And he'd've walked the world over to get her the blade of grass that she wanted
When she died, it made him worse than ever
High on a hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it
Someone died
And someone's left alone and can't abide it
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There in the house is a lonely man
Still haunted by her beauty
Asking what a life can be
Where naught remains but duty
Is it always so ugly here?
It's the moor
Miles and miles of wild land that
Nothing grows on but heather and grose and broom
And nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep
But what is that awful howling sound?
That's the wind blowing through the bushes
They call it whuthering, that sound
But look there
That tiny light far across there, that'll be the gate it will
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill
Mary Lennox, this is Doctor Craven, your uncle's brother
How do you do?
You are to take her to her room
He doesn't want to see her
Very good, Doctor
There you are then, Mary
Good night
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