[HPFGU-Movie] song lyrics?

rvotaw at i-55.com rvotaw at i-55.com
Fri Nov 14 18:04:33 UTC 2003


Ben wrote:

> anyways, i was wondering if anyone has the complete lyrics of that <BR>
> song? if you do, can you please post them? and is it true that the <BR>
> line "something wicked this way comes" is from shakespeare? sorry, 
im <BR>
> not familiar with his writings... :)<BR>

"Something Wicked this Way Comes" is from Shakespeare's MacBeth.  The lyrics 
from the trailer are only part of it, here is (I think) all of it:

Witch 1: Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd
Witch 2: Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin'd
Witch 3: Harper cries: 'Tis time, 'tis time.

Witch 1: Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights hast thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.

All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Witch 2: Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
 
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
 
Witch 3: Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
 
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
 
Witch 2: Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
 
Hectate: O! well done! I commend your pains,
And every one shall share i' the gains.
And now about the cauldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
 
Witch 2: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

Richelle

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