Stephen Sondheim

No Place Like London (tradução)

Stephen Sondheim

Sweeney Todd


Eu naveguei pelo mundo e contemplei suas maravilhas


De Dardanelos até as montanhas do Peru

Mas não há lugar como Londres


[Sweeney]

Não, não há lugar como Londres!


[Anthony]

Senhor Todd?


[Sweeney]

Você é jovem

A vida tem sido boa com você

Você aprenderá...


Há um buraco no mundo como um grande poço negro

E a ralé do mundo o habita

E seus costumes não valem nada

Esse lugar atende pelo nome de Londres


No topo do buraco ficam os poucos privilegiados

Zombando da ralé no solitário zoológico

Transformando a beleza em sujeira e ganância

Eu também naveguei pelo mundo e vi suas maravilhas

Mas a crueldade do homem é notável como o Peru

Mas não há lugar como Londres!


[Fala]

- Está bem, senhor Todd?

- Agradeço a preocupação. Minha mente está perturbada. Nessas ruas familiares, sinto que há assombrações em todos os cantos.

- Assombrações?

- Fantasmas.


[Música/Sweeney]

Havia um barbeiro e sua esposa

E ela era linda

Um barbeiro tolo e sua esposa

Ela era sua razão e sua vida

E ela era linda

E ela era boa

E ele era ingênuo

Mas havia outro homem que viu

Que ela era linda

Um predador corrupto da lei

Que com um gesto de sua garra

Tirou o barbeiro de sua vida!

E era só esperar!

E ela cairia!

Tão suave!

Tão jovem!

Tão perdida!

Oh, tão linda!


[Anthony]

A dama, senhor

O que aconteceu?


[Sweeney]

Oh isso foi há muitos anos

Eu duvido que alguém saiba.


[Fala]

- Gostaria de te agradecer, Anthony. Se não tivesse me encontrado eu ainda estaria perdido no mar.

- Quando vou te ver de novo?

- Se quiser me ver, vai me achar na rua Fleet.

- Até lá, meu amigo.


[Música/Sweeney]


Há um buraco no mundo como um grande poço negro

E ele está repleto de pessoas que não valem nada!

E a ralé do mundo mora nesse lugar!


































































































No Place Like London


Antony


I have sailed the world

beheld its wonders

from the dardinells,

to the mountains of Peru,

But there's no place like London!

I feel home again...

I could hear the city bells ring...

Whatever would I do?

No there's...


Sweeney Todd


No place like London...


Antony (spoken)


Mr. Todd, sir


Sweeney Todd


You are young...

Life has been kind to you...

You will learn.

(Spoken) 'Tis here we go our seperate ways.

Farewell Antony.

I will not soon forget the good ship bountiful, nor the young man who saved my life.


Antony


(Spoken) There's no cause to thank me for that, sir.

It would have been a poor Christian indeed who would have spotted you

pinching and tossing on that raft and not given the alarm.


Sweeney Todd


(Spoken)

There's many a Christian would've done just that and not lost a winks sleep over it either.


Beggar Woman


(Sung) Alms, alms for a miserable woman, on a miserable chilly mornin'!

Thank ya, sir, thank ya...

How would ya like a little muff,

dear a little jig-jig,

a little bounce around the bush!

Wouldn't ya like to push me parsley?

It looks to me, dear, that you've got plenty there to push!

Alms, alms for a pitiful woman...

what's got wandering wits?

Hey! DOn't I know you, mister?


Sweeney Todd


Must you glare at me, woman?

Off with you!

Off I say!


Beggar Woman


Then how would ya like to split me muff?

Mister, we'll go jig-jig!

A little...


Sweeney Todd


Off I said!

To the devil with you!


Beggar Woman


Alms, alms for a pitiful woman!


Antony (Spoken)


Pardon me, sir, but there's no need to fear the likes of her,

she's only a half-crazed beggar woman...

London's full of them.


Sweeney Todd (spoken)


I beg your indulgance, boy, my mind is far from easy.

For in the once familiar streets I feel a chill of ghostly shadows everywhere.

Forgive me.


Antony (spoken)


There is nothing to forgive.


Sweeney Todd (spoken)


Farewell, Antony.


Antony (spoken)


Mr. Todd, before we part...


Sweeney Todd (spoken)


What is it?


Antony (spoken)


I have honored my promise never to question you.

Whatever brought you to that sorry shipwreck is your affair and yet, over

many weeks of our voyage home,

I've come to think of you as a friend,

and if trouble lies ahead for you in London, if you

need any help...or money.


Sweeney Todd (spoken)


No!

(sung)

There's a whole in the world like a great black pit

and the vermin of the world inhabit it

and its morals aren't worth what a pin can spit

and it goes by the name of London.

At the top of the hole sit the previlaged few

Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo

turning beauty to filth and greed...

I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,

for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru

but there's no place like London!

--

There was a barber and his wife

and she was beautiful...

a foolish barber and his wife.

She was his reason for his life...

and she was beautiful, and she was virtuous.

And he was nieve.

There was another man who saw

that she was beautiful...

A biased vulture of the law

who, with a gesture of his claw

removed the barber from his plate!

And there was nothing but to wait!

And she would fall!

So soft!

So young!

So lost and oh so beautiful!


Antony (spoken)


The lady, sir, did she, sir, come?


Sweeney Todd (sung)


Ah, that was many years ago...

I doubt if anyone would know.

(spoken)

Now leave me, Antony.

There is somewhere I must go,

something i must find out.

Now, and alone.


Antony (spoken)


But surely we will meet again before I am off to Plymouth?


Sweeney Todd (spoken)


If you want you may well find me around Fleet Street. I wouldn't wander.

(sung)

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit

and it's filled with people who are filled with shit!

And the vermin of the world inhabit it!

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