Overture Lyrics - The Blood Brothers

Music: Willy Russell 

Lyrics: Willy Russell 

Book: Willy Russell 

Premiere: Monday, April 11, 1983 

MRS JOHNSTONE 

TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE 

SAY IT'S JUST A STORY 

NARRATOR 

SO DID Y' HEAR THE STORY 

OF THE JOHNSTONE TWINS? 

AS LIKE EACH OTHER AS TWO NEW PINS 

OF ONE WOMB BORN, ON THE SELF SAME DAY, 

HOW ONE WAS KEPT AND ONE GIVEN AWAY? 

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AN' DID YOU NEVER HEAR HOW THE JOHNSTONES DIED, 

NEVER KNOWING THAT THEY SHARED ONE NAME, 

TILL THE DAY THEY DIED, WHEN A MOTHER CRIED 

MY OWN DEAR SONS LIE SLAIN. 

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AN DID Y' NEVER HEAR OF THE MOTHER SO CRUEL, 

THERE'S A STONE IN PLACE OF HER HEART? 

THEN BRING HER ON AND COME JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES 

HOW SHE CAME TO PLAY THIS PART.