- Sweeney Todd: “You've got a room over the shop, haven't you? If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out?”
- Mrs. Lovett: “People think it's haunted.”
- Sweeney Todd: “Haunted?”
- Mrs. Lovett: “Yeah.  And who's to say they're wrong? You see, years ago something happened up there. Something not very nice.”

There was a barber and his wife
And he was beautiful
proper artist with a knife
But they transported him for life
And he was beautiful…

“Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker.”
- Sweeney Todd: “What was his crime?”
- Mrs. Lovett: “Foolishness.”

He had this wife, you see
Pretty little thing
Silly little nit
Had her chance for the moon on a string
Poor thing
Poor thing

There was this Judge, you see
Wanted her like mad
Every day he'd send her a flower
But did [bad word] down from her tower?
Sat up there and sobbed by the hour
Poor fool
Ah, but there was worse yet [bad word]  poor thing

The Beadle calls on her, all polite
Poor thing, poor thing
The Judge, he tells her, is all contrite
He blames himself for her dreadful plight
She [bad word] straight to his house tonight!
Poor thing, poor thing

Of course, when she goes there
Poor thing, poor thing
They're havin' this ball all in masks
There's no one she knows there
Poor dear, poor thing
She wanders, tormented and drinks
Poor thing
The judge has repented, she thinks
Poor thing
“Oh, where is Judge Turpin?” she asks

He was there, alright
Only not so contrite!

She wasn't no match for such craft, you see
And everyone thought it so droll
They figured she had to be daft, you see
So all of 'em stood there and laughed, you see
Poor soul!
Poor thing!

- Sweeney Todd:  “NOOOO! Would no one have mercy on her?”
- Mrs. Lovett: “So it is you.  Benjamin Barker.”
- Sweeney Todd: “No! Not Barker.  That man is dead. It's Todd now -  Sweeney Todd. And he will have his revenge.”