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Diamond Mine
From the musical A
Little Princess (Lyrics in bold are part of the abbreviated
recording)
Music by Richard Link
Lyrics by Tegan McLane
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CAPTAIN CREWE (Spoken)
My dearest Sara, I am writing to you from South Africa, with extraordinary
news: My boyhood friend, Tom Carrisford, has invited me to invest in his
new venture in South Africa. We shall soon have an enormous fortune, little
Sara! I have become a partner in a diamond mine…
MISS MINCHIN, SCHOOLGIRLS
A diamond mine!
CAPTAIN CREWE
Dear Sara, Precious Sara…
A diamond mine
Is a curious thing
A long way from
A diamond ring
Not really a cave
More a giant pit
The men descend,
Are swallowed by it
Above the pit
Is a web of rope
Something to cling to
Something that gives them hope
Dear Sara, Precious Sara…
Read between the lines
Like the men who work the mines
Only then will you discover
By chance, perhaps, uncover
All around you
The truth of a father’s love—you’re
Like a diamond, mine
You are like a diamond, mine
ALL
Read between the lines
Like diamonds in their mines,
Words may be concealing
Just hinting, not revealing
All around you
Hard and sparkling feelings
Like a diamond, mine
MISS MINCHIN
A diamond mine
Is a marvelous thing
A long way from
A diamond ring
Not just a fortune
Now the stuff of… fame
I knew she was special
From the moment she came
Since she came
To this, my school
I must take advantage
I’d be a fool..
(Obsequious, to Sara) Dear Sara, Precious Sara…
ALL
Read between the lines
Like diamonds in their mines,
Words may be concealing
Just hinting, not revealing
All around you
Hard and sparkling feelings
Like a diamond, mine
CAPTAIN CREWE
A diamond mine
Is a dangerous thing
ALL
A long way from
A diamond ring
CAPTAIN CREWE
I had a fine stone
That I almost sent
But on the way up
Met with ‘accident’
From the ‘accident’
Rough workers brave
Bore me to safety
And friendship gave
ALL
Dear Sara, Precious Sara…
Read between the lines
Like diamonds in their mines,
Words may be concealing
Just hinting, not revealing
All around you
CAPTAIN CREWE
Rough and precious beings
Like a diamond, mine
ALL
All around you,
Are hard and sparkling feelings
Rough and precious beings
Like diamonds,
Yours and mine
Look closely for the diamonds,
In between the lines
Diamonds
In
Their
Mines
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Copyright © 2002 Children’s Musical Theater
San Jose.
Music by Richard Link, Lyrics by Tegan McLane.
Performed by:
Adam Campbell, Captain Crewe
Richard Link, piano
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