"The Letter" lyrics

[SOLO BASS:]
Most Honorable Judge Turpin

[SOLO TENOR:]
Most Honorable

[TODD:]
Ha!

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO:]
Honorable!

[SOLO BASS:]
I venture thus to write you this

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS:]
Urgent

[SOLO BARITONE:]
Note to warn you

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS:]
That the hot-blooded

[QUINTET:]
Young

[TODD:]
Ha!

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS:]
Sailor

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO:]
Has abducted your ward Johanna

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS:]
(Johanna!)

[SOLO TENOR:]
(Johanna!)

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO:]
From the institution
Where you

[SOLO TENOR, BARITONE & BASS:]
So wisely

[SOLO SOPRANO & ALTO:]
Confined her

[SOLO BARITONE:]
But, hoping to earn your favor

[SOLO TENOR & BARITONE:]
I have persuaded the boy to lodge her here tonight

[SOLO TENOR, BARITONE & BASS:]
At my tonsorial parlor

[SOLO ALTO, TENOR, BARITONE & BASS:]
In Fleet Street

[QUINTET:]
If you want her again in your arms
Hurry
After the night falls

[SOLO TENOR:]
She will be waiting

[SOLO SOPRANO, ALTO, BARITONE & BASS:]
Waiting...

[SOLO BARITONE & BASS:]
Your obedient humble servant

[TODD:]
Sweeney Todd