Poor Unfortunate Souls

Poor Unfortunate Souls is a song from The Little Mermaid sung by Ursula The Sea Witch.

Lyrics


 Ursula:  I admit that in the past I've been a nasty

 They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch

 But you'll find that nowadays I've mended all my ways

 Repented, seen the light, and made a switch (True? Yes)

 And I fortunately know a little magic

 It's a talent that I always have possessed

 And here lately, please don't laugh

 I use it on behalf

 Of the miserable, lonely and depressed (Pathetic)

 Poor unfortunate souls

 In pain, in need

 This one longing to be thinner

 That one wants to get the girl

 And do I help them? Yes, indeed

 Those poor unfortunate souls

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> So sad, so true

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> They come flocking to my cauldron

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Crying, "Spells, Ursula, please!"

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> And I help them? Yes I do

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Now it's happened once or twice

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Someone couldn't pay the price

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> And I'm afraid I had to rake 'em 'cross the coals

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Yes I've had the odd complaint

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> But on the whole I've been a saint

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> To those poor unfortunate souls

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> The men up there don't like a lot of blabber

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> They think a girl who gossips is a bore

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Yes, on land it's much preferred for ladies not to say a word

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> And after all, dear, what is idle prattle for?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Come on, they're not all that impressed with conversation

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> True gentlemen avoid it when they can

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> But they dote and swoon and fawn

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> On a lady who's with drawn

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> It's she who holds her tongue who get's a man

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Come on, you poor unfortunate soul

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Go ahead! Make your choice!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> I'm a very busy woman, and I haven't got all day

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> It won't cost much. Just your voice!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> You poor unfortunate soul

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> It's sad but true

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> If you want to cross the bridge, my sweet, you've got the pay the toll

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Take a gulp and take a breath, and go ahead and sign the scroll

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Flotsam, Jetsam, now I've got her, boys

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> The boss is on a roll

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> THIS POOR UNFORTUNATE SOUL!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"> Beluga Sevrgua, come winds of the Caspian Sea Larynxes Glacydis Ad max Laryngitis la voce to me

<p class="MsoNormal"> (Now Sing)