Thomas: What do you suppose the New World will look like?
John Smith: Like all the others, I suppose. I've seen hundreds of new worlds, Thomas. What could possibly be different about this one?
Governor Ratcliffe: Gentlemen, to work! You men, get the ship unloaded. You men, build the fort. The rest of you, break up the shovels. It's time to start digging.
Ben, Lon: [both] Digging?
Governor Ratcliffe: Why, of course. Let's not forget what the Spanish found when they came to the New World. Gold!
Mountains of it. Why, for years they've been ravaging the New World of its most precious resources. But now it's our turn.
Governor Ratcliffe: Don't lose your heart, men. It won't be long before we reach the New World. And remember what awaits us there. Freedom. Prosperity. The adventure of our lives. You're the finest crew England has to offer and nothing, not wind nor a thousand bloody savages shall stand in our way. Carry on, men!
Wiggins: A stirring oration, sir. I'm sure
the men were most exhilarated.
Governor Ratcliffe: Let's hope so.
[quietly to Percy]
Governor Ratcliffe: I'll need those witless peasants to dig up my gold, won't I?
Percy: [growls in agreement]
Powhatan: Pocahontas, you and Nakoma should be inside the village.
Pocahontas: oh, don't worry about us, Father. We'll be all right.
Nakoma: Yes! We're gathering food for when the warriors arrive.
Powhatan: Don't go far. Now is not the time to be running off.
Pocahontas: Yes, Father!
Powhatan: When I see you wear that necklace, you look just like your mother.
Pocahontas: I miss her.
Powhatan: But she is still with us. Whenever the wind moves through the trees, I feel her presence. Our people looked to her for wisdom and strength. Someday, they will look to you as well.
Pocahontas: I
would be honored by that.
Powhatan: You shouldn't be out here alone. I'll send for Kocoum.
Nakoma: All right. What is it?
Pocahontas: What?
Nakoma: You're hiding something.
Pocahontas: I'm not hiding anything.
Nakoma: Pocahontas, you can tell me. I promise
I won't tell anyone.
[sees John Smith coming]
Nakoma: Pocahontas look! It's one of them! I'm going to get...
Pocahontas: [thrusts her hand over Nakoma's mouth] What are you doing here?
John Smith: I had to see you again.
Kocoum: Pocahontas. Pocahontas?
Pocahontas: [to
Nakoma] Please, don't say anything.
[to John Smith]
Pocahontas: Quick, this way!
Nakoma: But...
Pocahontas: [singing Just Around the Riverbend] What I love most about rivers is/You can't step in the same river twice/The water's always changing, always flowing/But people, I guess, can't live like that/We all must pay a price/To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing/What's around the riverbend/Waiting just around the riverbend/I look once more/Just around the
riverbend/Beyond the shore/Where the gulls fly free/Don't know what for/What I dream the day might send/Just around the riverbend/For me/Coming for me/I feel it there beyond those trees or right behind those watefalls/Can I ignore that sound of distant drumming for a handsome sturdy husband who builds handsome sturdy walls and never dreams that something might be coming?/Just around the
riverbend/Just around the riverbend/I look once more/Just around the riverbend/Beyond the shore/Somewhere past the sea/Don't know what for/Why do all my dreams extend just around the riverbend?/Just around the riverbend/Should I choose the smoothest course steady as the beating drum?/Should I marry Kocoum?/Is all my dreaming at an end?/Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver, Just around the
riverbend?
Nakoma: Pocahontas, are you crazy? What were you doing?
Kocoum: Finally. There you are.
Pocahontas: Kocoum.
Kocoum: [to Pocahontas and Nakoma] Look at them. Now we have enough warriors to destroy those white demons.
Pocahontas: [singing] And I'm so grateful to you
John Smith: [singing] I'd have lived my whole life through
[first lines]
Chorus: [singing] In sixteen hundred seven, we sailed the open sea for glory, God and gold and the Virginia Company/for the New World is like heaven, and we'll all be rich and free or so we have been told by the Virginia Company/so we have been told by the Virginia Company/For glory, God and gold and the Virginia Company.
Powhatan: [sees Kocoum's body] Who did this?
Warriors: [with John Smith] Pocahontas was out in the woods. Kocoum went to find her and this white man attacked them.
Powhatan: [angry] Your weapons are strong but now are anger is stronger. At sunrise, he will be the first to die!
Pocahontas: But, father!
Powhatan: [angry] I told you to stay in the village! You disobeyed me! You have shamed your father!
Pocahontas: I was only trying to help.
Powhatan: Because of your foolishness, Kocoum is dead! Take him away!
Pocahontas: [when Nakoma comes out of the crowd and approaches her to confess to sending Kocoum after
her] Kocoum was just coming to protect me.
Nakoma: Pocahontas... I sent Kocoum after you. I was worried about you. I thought I was doing the right thing.
Pocahontas: All of this happened because of me... and now, I'll never see John Smith again.
Nakoma: Come with me.
[to the guards]
Nakoma:
Pocahontas wants to look into the eyes of the man who killed Kocoum.
Warriors: Be quick.
John Smith: Pocahontas!
Pocahontas: John!
John Smith: Listen to me, my men are planning to attack your people. You've got to warn them.
Pocahontas: Maybe it's not to late to stop this, you have to come with me and talk to my father.
John Smith: [stopping Pocahontas] Pocahontas, talking
isn't going to do any good. I already tried talking to my men, but everything about this land has been spooked.
[They hear howling in a distant]
Nakoma: Kocoum.
Kocoum: What is it?
Nakoma: It's Pocahontas.
Kocoum: What's wrong? Is she all right?
Nakoma: I think she's in trouble.
Powhatan: These white men are dangerous! No one is to go near them.
Ben: Ratcliffe wouldn't take us halfway across the world for nothing.
Lon: But what if Smith is right? What if there is no gold?
Leeroy the Settler: If you ask me Ratcliffe's been lieing to us since we left London.
Ben: Listen to you you bunch of idiots! Those savages didn't attack us for nothing! They're hiding something!
Leeroy the Settler: If they do have the gold I reckon we'll have to fight them.