Irene Bedard credited as playing...
Pocahontas
- John Smith: Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: [hugs him] I'm so sorry.
- John Smith: For what, this? I've gotten out of worse scrapes than this. Can't think of anything right now, but...
- Pocahontas: [tearfully] It would've been better if we never met. None of this would've happened.
- John Smith: Pocahontas, look at me. I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.
- Nakoma: Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: I can't leave you.
- John Smith: You never will. No matter what happens to me, I'll always be with you. Forever.
- Pocahontas: [sadly leaves]
- Pocahontas: [as she throws herself over John Smith, who is about to be executed] No!
- [silence]
- Pocahontas: If you kill him, you'll have to kill me, too.
- Powhatan: Daughter, stand back.
- Pocahontas: I won't! I love him, Father.
- [silence]
- Pocahontas: Look around you. This is where the path of hatred has brought us.
- [brief silence]
- Pocahontas: This is the path I choose, Father. What will yours be?
- John Smith: We've improved the lives of savages all over the world.
- Pocahontas: Savages?
- John Smith: Uh, not that you're a savage.
- Pocahontas: Just my people.
- John Smith: No. Listen. That's not what I meant. Let me explain, uh...
- Pocahontas: Let go!
- John Smith: No, I'm not letting you leave.
- Pocahontas: [jumps out of her canoe and climbs up into a tree]
- John Smith: Look, don't do this. Savage is just a word, uh, you know. A term for people who are uncivilized.
- Pocahontas: Like me.
- John Smith: Well, when I say uncivilized, what I mean is, is...
- [he grabs a branch, but the branch is not strong enough to hold his weight, and John falls back to the ground. Pocahontas jumps down after him]
- Pocahontas: What you mean is, not like you.
- Grandmother Willow: Come closer, John Smith.
- [she inspects him]
- Grandmother Willow: He has a good soul. And he's handsome, too.
- John Smith: Oh, I like her.
- Pocahontas: I knew you would.
- John Smith: Pocahontas, that tree is talking to me.
- Pocahontas: Then you should talk back.
- Grandmother Willow: Don't be frightened, young man. My bark is worse than my bite.
- Pocahontas: Say something.
- John Smith: What do you say to a tree?
- Pocahontas: Anything you want.
- Grandmother Willow: Now then, there's something I want to show you. Look.
- [dips her vine in the water in which glowing ripples begin to form]
- Pocahontas: The ripples.
- John Smith: What about them?
- Grandmother Willow: So small at first, then look how they grow. But someone has to start them.
- John Smith: They're not going to listen to us.
- Grandmother Willow: Young man, sometimes the right path is not the easiest one. Don't you see? Only when the fighting stops can you be together.
- [Pocahontas smiles]
- John Smith: All right. Let's go talk to your father.
- [Pocahontas and John hug each other]
- Pocahontas: [singing] You think I'm an ignorant savage and you've been so many places/I guess it must be so/but still I cannot see if the savage one is me/ How can there be so much that you don't know?/You don't know
- John Smith: It's just a handshake. Here, let me show you.
- John Smith: [holds out hand]
- Pocahontas: Nothing's happening.
- John Smith: Uh, no, no. I need your hand first.
- [they shake hands]
- John Smith: It's how we say hello.
- John Smith: You have the most unusual names here. Chechomony, Kuyukanhoic, Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: You have a most unusual name too. John Smith.
- Pocahontas: But lately, I've been having this dream and I think it's...
- Grandmother Willow: Oh, a dream! Let's hear all about it.
- [animals begin to chatter excitedly]
- Grandmother Willow: Quiet!
- [a squirrel crawls over her face, which she blows away; the animals continue to chatter]
- Grandmother Willow: Quiet!
- [all falls silent; a frog croaks, she glares at it, making it gulp and hide under its lily pad]
- Nakoma: Pocahontas!
- Pocahontas: Nakoma!
- Nakoma: Don't go out there. I lied for you once. Don't ask me to do it again.
- Pocahontas: I have to do this.
- Nakoma: He's one of them!
- Pocahontas: You don't know him.
- Nakoma: If you go out there, you'll be turning your back on your own people.
- Pocahontas: I'm trying to help my people.
- Nakoma: Pocahontas, please. You're my best friend. I don't want you to get hurt.
- Pocahontas: I won't. I know what I'm doing.
- Nakoma: Pocahontas, no!
- [Pocahontas runs off]
- Thomas: [looking at Kocoum's body after shooting him] Is he...
- Pocahontas: You killed him.
- Thomas: I thought that...
- Pocahontas: [Angrily rushes at Thomas] Get away from him!
- John Smith: [holds her back] Pocahontas, it wont help! He was only...
- Pocahontas: [shouts] He killed him!
- John Smith: [they hear other Indians approaching] Thomas, get out of here!
- [Thomas hesitates]
- John Smith: [yells] Get out of here!
- John Smith: [about Percy and Meeko] You see what I mean? Once two sides wanna fight, nothing can stop them.
- Pocahontas: [Percy and Meeko circling around her] Come-- Come here, both of you!
- John Smith: It's all right! It's all right! He's a friend! Bad! Bad dog! Sit!
- [Flit laughs, then Meeko snatches him and straightens his beak to be sharp like a sword. He begins to fence off Percy]
- Pocahontas: What are you doing? Meeko!
- John Smith: Percy, get back here! What are you doing? Stop that!
- Grandmother Willow: All right, that's enough!
- [Percy stiffens up and faints into the river. Grandmother Willow lifts him back to the stump with one of her branches]
- Grandmother Willow: It's enough to make your sap boil.
- Pocahontas: You think I'm an ignorant savage, and you've been so many places / I guess it must be so / But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me / How can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know...
- Pocahontas: You think you own whatever land you land on, the Earth is just a dead thing you can claim / But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name / You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you / But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew, you never knew...
- Pocahontas: Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? / Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
- Pocahontas: Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest, come taste the sun-sweet berries of the Earth / Come roll in all the riches all around you, and for once, never wonder what they're worth / The rainstorm and the river are my brothers / The heron and the otter are my friends / And we are all connected to each other / In a circle, in a hoop that never ends!
- Pocahontas: How high does the sycamore grow? / If you cut it down, then you'll never know! / And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, for whether we are white or copper skinned / We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains, we need to paint with all the colors of the wind...
- Pocahontas: You can own the Earth and still all you'll own is Earth, until you can paint with all the colors of the wind...
- John Smith: [singing] If I never knew you/If I never felt this love/I would have no inking of/How precious life can be/And if I never held you/I would never have a clue/How at last I'd find in you/The missing part of me/In this world so full of fear/Full of rage and lies/I can see the truth so clear/In your eyes/So dry your eyes/And I'm so grateful to you/I'd have lived my whole life through/Lost forever/If I never knew you
- Pocahontas: [singing] I thought our love would be so beautiful/Somehow we'd make the whole world bright/I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong/All they'd leave us were these whispers in the night/But still my heart is saying we were right/For if I never knew you
- John Smith: [singing] There's no moment I regret
- Pocahontas: [singing] If I never knew this love
- John Smith: [singing] Since the moment that we met
- Pocahontas: [singing] I would have no inking of
- John Smith: [singing] If our time has gone too fast
- Pocahontas: [singing] How precious life can be
- John Smith: [singing] I've lived at last
- Nakoma: Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: [spoken] I can't leave you.
- John Smith: [spoken] You never will. No matter what happens to me, I'll always be with you. Forever.
- [singing]
- John Smith: And I'm so grateful to you/I'd have lived my whole life through/Empty as the sky/
- Pocahontas: [singing] Never knowing why/
- John Smith: [singing] Lost forever/If I never knew you
- Pocahontas: [singing] Lost forever/If I never knew you
- Governor Ratcliffe: [singing] This will be the day
- [spoken]
- Governor Ratcliffe: Let's go, men!
- Powhatan: [singing] This will be the morning
- [spoken]
- Powhatan: Bring out the prisoner!
- Warriors: [singing] We will see them dying in the dust
- Pocahontas: [singing] I don't know what I can do/Still I know I've got to try
- Warriors: [singing] Now we make them pay
- Pocahontas: [singing] Eagle, help my feet to fly
- Warriors: [singing] Now, without a warning
- Pocahontas: [singing] Mountain, help my heart be great
- Warriors: [singing] Now we leave them blood and bone and rust
- Pocahontas: [singing] Spirits of the Earth and sky
- Warriors: [singing] It's them or us
- Pocahontas: [singing] Please don't let it be too late
- Warriors: [singing] They're just a bunch of filthy/ stinking savages
- [spoken]
- Warriors: Savages! Demons! Devils!
- Governor Ratcliffe: [spoken] Kill them!
- Warriors: [singing] Savages, savages
- Governor Ratcliffe: [singing] What are we waiting for?/Destroy their evil race/Until there's not a trace left
- Warriors: [singing] We will sound the drums of war
- Pocahontas: [singing] How loud are the drums of war?
- Warriors: [singing] Now we see what comes of trying to be chums
- Pocahontas: [singing] Is the death of all I love carried in the drumming of
- Warriors: [singing] War
- Pocahontas: [spoken] No!
- 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?
- Pocahontas: [singing] And I'm so grateful to you
- John Smith: [singing] I'd have lived my whole life through
- John Smith: Come with me?
- Powhatan: You must choose your own path.
- Pocahontas: [pause] I'm needed here.