Alan Menken — Prologue / Little Shop of Horrors 2003

[NARRATOR, spoken] On the twenty-first day of the month of September In the year of a decade not too long before our own The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence And this terrifying enemy surfaced As such enemies often do In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places [CRYSTAL, RONETTE & CHIFFON, sung] Little Shop, Little Shop o' Horrors Little Shop, Little Shop o' Terror Call a cop Little Shop o' Horrors No-oh-oh-oh-oh-no Little Shop, Little Shop o' Horrors Bop sho'bop Little Shop o' Terror Watch 'em drop Little Shop o' Horrors No-oh-oh-oh-no Shing-a-ling-shing-shing-a-ling-thing What a creepy thing to be happening Look out, look out, look out, look out! Shang-a-lang-shang-lang-shang-a-lang Feel the Sturm und Drang in the air Yeah, yeah, yeah Sha-la-la-la Stop right where you are, don't you move a thing You better You better, we're telling you you better Tell your mama something's gonna get her She better Everybody better beware Oh, here it comes, baby Tell the bums, baby Oh-oh-oh-oh-no Oh-oh-oh, hit the dirt, baby Red alert, baby Oh-oh-no, oh-oh-oh-no Alley-oop-shoop-shoop, haul it off the stoop Child, I'm warning you! Look out, look out, look out, look out! Run away, hey, child you're gonna pay if you fail (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Look around-round, look around-round, look something's coming down, down the street for you You betcha, you betcha You bet your butt, you betcha Best believe it, something's come to get ya You betcha, you better watch your back and your tail (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Come-a, come-a, come-a Little Shop, Little Shop o' Horrors Bop sho'bop You'll never stop the terror Little Shop, Little Shop o' Horrors No-oh-oh-oh-no-oh-oh-oh-no-oh-oh-oh-no