House Upon the Hill (Piano)

Taken directly from The Secret Garden: The Vocal Score
There is a lot of dialogue in the instrumental parts
I typed all those lyrics.
MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
Now in all my years, I've never seen a child sit so still or look so old

DREAMERS
High on a hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it.
Spirits haunt the halls
And make no effort now to hide it.

What will put their souls to rest
And stop their ceaseless sighing?
Why do they call out children's names
And speak of one who's crying?
Ooo...

MRS MEDLOCK (spoken)
Well, you're right not to care. Why you're being brought to Misselthwaite, I'll never know. Your uncle isn't going to trouble himself about you, that's sure and certain. He never troubles himself about anyone.

DREAMERS
And the Master hears the whispers on the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill.

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
He's a hunchback, you see. And a sour young man he was, and got no good of all his money and big place till he were married.

MARY (spoken)
To my mother's sister?

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
Her name was Lily. And she was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade of grass that she wanted. Nobody thought she'd marry him, but marry him she did, and it wasn't for his money either. But then when she died...

MARY (spoken)
How did she die?

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
It made it worse than ever. He travels most of the time now. It's his brother, Dr. Craven, who makes all the decisions these days.

DREAMERS:
High on a hill sits a big old house
With something wrong inside it
Someone died and someone's left
Alone and can't abide it.

There in the house lives a lonely man
Still haunted by her beauty
Asking what a life can be where
Naught remains but duty.

Oo...

MARY (spoken)
Is it always so ugly here?

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
It's the moor. Miles and mile of wild land that nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom, and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep.

MARY (spoken)
What is that awful howling sound?

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
That's the wind, blowing through the bushes. They call it wuthering, that sound. But look there, that tiny light far across there. That'll be the gate it will.

DREAMERS
And the master hears the whispers
On the stairways dark and still
And the spirits speak of secrets
In the house upon the hill.

DR. CRAVEN (spoken)
For God's sake, Archie. The girls' parents are dead. She's traveled six thousand miles to get here. You are her guardian. The least you can do is be here to greet her.

ARCHIBALD (spoken)
I can't, Neville. I wouldn't know what to say. I'll be upstairs.

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
Mary Lennox, this is Dr. Craven, your uncle's brother.

MARY (spoken)
How do you do.

DR. CRAVEN (spoken)
You're to take her to her room. He doesn't want to see her.

MRS. MEDLOCK (spoken)
Very good, Doctor

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