I do this more often than I admit

I was relistening to the OCR of The Secret Garden, which is one of my favorite musicals, despite only ever having listened to it, and it should come as no surprise by now that some of the songs made me think of The Lorax movie.  What did surprise me was the sheer number.  Seriously, I did not think I was going to get so much out of it.  And true, very few whole songs worked, but here's what struck me the most, with the occasional tweaks to make it fit better.

The House Upon the Hill:

High on a hill sits a big old house lerkim

With something wrong inside it

Someone died was lifted and someone's left

Alone and can't abide it

There in the house lerkim is a lonely man

Still haunted by her it's beauty (the land, that is)

Asking what a life can be

Where naught remains but duty

Ted: Is it always so ugly here?

Grammy Norma: It's the moor.  Miles and miles of wild land where nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom grickle grass.

A Bit of Earth

A bit of earth

She wants a little bit of earth

She'll plant some seeds

The seeds will grow

The flowers bloom

But is their bounty

What she needs?

How can she chance

To love a little bit of earth

Does she not know

The earth is old

And doesn't care if

One small girl wants things to grow

There's a Man - Transition

There's a man whom no one sees

There's a man who lives alone

There's a heart that beats in silence for

The life he's never known.

Wick

The whole friggin' thing!  But here's a few lyrics to give you an idea:

When a thing is wick

And someone cares about it

And comes to work each day

Like you and me

Will it grow?

It will

Then have no doubt about it

We'll have the grandest garden truffula tree ever seen.

A Bit of Earth - Reprise

A bit of earth

A drop of dew, a single stem

Begins to rise

That bit of earth

Is pushed away, the flowers bloom

Before our eyes

Hold On

When you see a man who's ragin'

And he's jealous and he fears

That you've walked through walls

He's hid behind for years

As a side note, while this doesn't really work with the movie as is, but I envision Quartet being played out with Old!Once-ler as Archibald and Green-Suit!Once-ler, representing his greed, as his brother.  Not sure who the ladies would be, though.