Original Broadway Cast of The Little Mermaid
If Only - Triton’s Lament
TRITON (spoken)
She needs her mother, Sebastian
And so do I
(sung)
If only she were here
She'd know just what to say
She'd firmly and yet gently help the girl to find her way
She'd know what to forbid
And what we must allow
She'd have the strength and patience that I lack, somehow
Oh, what I would give to have her back right -