Ti Moune New Broadway Cast of Once On This Island (Ft. Hailey Kilgore, Kenita R. Miller & Phillip Boykin)

[TI MOUNE, spoken]
I must go to him! His heart beats for me like a drum. The gods are dancing for me, Mama! Please, Mama. Please, Tonton. Give me your blessing and let me go. I will go!

[MAMA]
What can I say to stop you now
Now that you’ve heard your drums
And seen your dancers
Now that you think your heart
Has all the answers?
Who knows how high
Those mountains climb?
Who knows how deep those rivers flow?
Who knows how wrong a dream can go
Ti Moune?

[TONTON]
I won’t be there to guide your way —

[MAMA]
To braid your hair or dry your tears —

[TONTON, MAMA]
— As we have done these many years, Ti Moune
Ti Moune...

[TONTON]
What you are, we made you
What we gave, you took
Now you run without one backward look