Original Broadway Cast of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Vow
[Tom]
Do you think he saw us?
[Huck]
If he'd had we'd both be dead
[Tom]
We'd better tell somebody
[Huck]
Get that thought out of your head
[Tom]
Why not?
[Huck]
Cause Joe would kill us, that's why
[Tom]
Not if they hang him
[Huck]
Well what if they don't, huh?
What if he gets away?
If he knew that we'd had see him
He'd track us down somehow
So we gotta swear to never tell
We gotta take a vow
Cause a vow means never starting now
Can you tell anybody anyhow?
You must keep your lips together
Not breathe a word forever
And not even one except for is allowed
Cause a vow means never starting now
[Tom]
I got some paper and charcoal
[Huck]
Pick your finger with this pin
Till you draw a little blood
And I'll do the same and then we'll mix them up real good
[Tom]
"Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Do hereby swear to keep mum forever
If they ever tell
May their eyeballs burst into flames
And may they drop down dead and rot"
[Huck]
Ew
That's good
[Tom]
It's poetry
Now give me your thumb
"H. F."
That's for Huck Finn
And "T.S."-Tom Sawyer
There, sealed in blood
[Together]
And a vow means never, starting now