Alan Menken
Prologue/Little Shop of Horrors
[A VOICE NOT UNLIKE GOD'S, spoken]
On the twenty-third day of the month of September
In an early year of a decade not too long before our own
The human race suddenly encountered a deadly
Threat to its very existence
And this terrifying enemy surfaced
As such enemies often do
In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Little shop, little shoppa horrors
Little shop, little shoppa terror
Call a cop. Little shoppa horrors
No, oh, oh, no-oh
Little shop, little shoppa horrors
Bop sh-bop, little shoppa terror
Watch 'em drop! Little shoppa horrors
No, oh, oh, no-oh
[CHIFFON]
Shing-a-ling, what a creepy thing
To be happenin'
[GIRLS, spoken]
Lookout, lookout, lookout, lookout
[CHIFFON]
Shang-a-lang, feel the sturm
And drang in the air
[CHIFFON]
Sha-la-la, stop right where you are
Don't you move a thing
[RONETTE]
You better
[GIRLS]
You better
Tellin' you, you better
Tell your mama somethin's gonna
Get her
She better. Ev'rybody better
Beware
[RONETTE]
Come-a, come-a, come-a
[GIRLS]
Little shop, little shoppa horrors
Bop sh-bop, you'll never stop the terror
Little shop, little shoppa horrors
No, oh, oh
No, oh, oh
No, oh, oh, no