Lyrics Scene: A Train Platform in Yorkshire / The House Upon the Hill - Daisy Eagan , The Secret Garden Ensemble

Mary Lennox? I'm your uncle's housekeeper
I suppose you'd like to know somewhat about where you're going

Would I?

Well don't you care about your new home then?

It's doesn't matter whether I care or not

Now, in all my years
I've never seen a child sit so still or look so old

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

Well you're right not to care
You're uncle certainly isn't going to trouble himself about you

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

He's a hunchback you see, and a sour young man he was
And got no good of all his money and big place 'til he were married

To my Aunt Lily?

She were a sweet pretty thing
And he'd've walked the world over to get her the blade of grass that she wanted
When she died, it made him worse than ever

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 is a lonely man
Still haunted by her beauty
Asking what a life can be
Where naught remains but duty

Is it always so ugly here?

It's the moor
Miles and miles of wild land that
Nothing grows on but heather and grose and broom
And nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep

But what is that awful howling sound?

That's the wind blowing through the bushes
They call it whuthering, that sound
But look there
That tiny light far across there, that'll be the gate it will

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

Mary Lennox, this is Doctor Craven, your uncle's brother

How do you do?

You are to take her to her room
He doesn't want to see her

Very good, Doctor
There you are then, Mary
Good night