Savages

Emotions run hot and terrifying through song, as the two sides prepare for war while Pocahontas' lone voice cries out for peace. The lyrics on this page are from the final version of the song that is used in the film and appears in the soundtrack, but the soundtrack booklet contains an older set of lyrics:

In Part 1:

In Part 2:

In the 2015 Legacy Collection soundtrack, the older lyrics of Part 1 are restored, and there's an alternate Savages Part 2 track with the restored Part 2 lyrics.

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Part 1

Ratcliffe
What can you expect
From filthy little heathens
This is what you get when races are diversed
Their skin's a hellish red
They're only good when dead
They're vermin, as I said
And worse

English settlers
They're savages! Savages!

Ratcliffe
Barely even human

English settlers
Savages! Savages!

Ratcliffe
Drive them from our shore
They're not like you and me
Which means they must be evil
We must sound the drums of war

English settlers
They're savages! Savages!
Dirty shrieking devils
Now we sound the drums of war

Powhatan
This is what we feared
The paleface is a demon
The only thing they feel at all is greed

Kekata
Beneath that milky hide
There's emptiness inside

Native Americans
I wonder if they even bleed
They're savages! Savages!
Barely even human
Savages! Savages!

Powhatan
Killers at the core

Kekata
They're different from us
Which means they can't be trusted

Powhatan
We must sound the drums of war

Native Americans
They're savages! Savages!
First we deal with this one

All
Then we sound the drums of war

English settlers
Savages! Savages!

Ben
Let's go kill a few, men!

Native Americans
Savages! Savages!

Ratcliffe
Now it's up to you, men!

All
Savages! Savages!
Barely even human!
Now we sound the drums of war!

Part 2

Ratcliffe
This will be the day
Let's go, men!

Powhatan
This will be the morning
Bring out the prisoner!

English settlers & Native Americans
We will see them dying in the dust

Pocahontas
I don't know what I can do
Still, I know I've got to try

English settlers
Now we make 'em pay

Pocahontas
Eagle, help my feet to fly

Native Americans
Now without a warning

Pocahontas
Mountain, help my heart be great

English settlers & Native Americans
Now we leave 'em blood and bone and rust

Pocahontas
Spirits of the earth and sky

English settlers & Native Americans
It's them or us

Pocahontas
Please don't let it be too late

English settlers & Native Americans
They're just a bunch of
Filthy stinking

English settlers
Savages!

Native Americans
Savages!

English settlers
Demons!

Native Americans
Devils!

Ratcliffe
Kill them!

Native Americans
Savages!

English settlers
Savages!

Ratcliffe
What are we waiting for?

English settlers & Native Americans
Destroy their evil race
Until there's not a trace left

Pocahontas
How loud are the drums of war

English settlers & Native Americans
We will sound the drums of war
(Savages! Savages!)
Now we sound the drums of war
(Savages! Savages!)

Ratcliffe
Now we see what comes
Of trying to be chums

Native Americans
Now we sound the...

English settlers & Native Americans
Drums... Of...

Pocahontas
Is the death of all I love
Carried in the drumming of...

All
War!

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