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Pocahontas cover And award-winning "Colors of the Wind" lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

DVD

10th Anniversary Edition of Pocahontas

This amazing new 2-disc DVD includes many special features including:

  • "The Making of Pocahontas" featurette that includes Stephen Schwartz
  • Production: Early Presentation Reels, Storyboards, Production Progression
  • Nine Deleted Scenes
  • Commentary by producer James Pentecost, directors Eric Goldberg & Mike Gabriel
  • Original Edition of the Film
  • "If I Never Knew You", with all-new animation
  • "Follow your Heart" & "Art Project" Set-Top Games
  • Music video
    AND MORE

Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Song (Colors of the Wind) and Best Original Score. Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Music by Alan Menken.

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Music CDs

Pocahontas
Pocahontas Compact Disc album cover.(Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz), Disney, 1995. Pocahontas sound track
 
  • Songs on the compact disk (not including the instrumentals): The Virginia Company, Steady as the Beating Drum, Just Around the Riverbend, Listen With Your Heart, Colors of the Wind, Savages, If I Never Knew You
Pocahontas Karaoke
Disney Karaoke series - Princess - "Colors of the Wind" and "Just Around the Riverbend"

OR Pocahontas Karaoke - [new browser window]

 
Pocahontas Songs Covered on other CDs:

"Colors of the Wind"

Crawford cover
  • Michael Crawford - The Disney Album - (UNI/Disney 2001)
    Michael Crawford's The Disney Album. [new browser window]
  • Judy Kuhn - Classic Disney, Volume 3 - (Walt Disney Records, 1996)
  • Michelle Nicastro - Tuneful, Too - (Varese Sarabande, 1995)
  • Jane Olivor - Love Decides - (Varese Sarabande, 1982)
  • Pam Tillis - The Best of Country Sings the Best of Disney - (Walk Disney Records, 1996)
  • Sara Ramirez -
    The Stephen Schwartz Album - (Varese Sarabande, 1999)
  • Vanessa Williams - Disney's Greatest Pop Hits - (Walt Disney Records, 1998)

"If I Never Knew You"

"Just Around the Riverbend"

  • Christiane Noll -
    The Stephen Schwartz Album - (Varese Sarabande, 1999)
  • Michelle Nicastro - Tuneful, Too - (Varese Sarabande, 1995)

"Mine, Mine, Mine"

  • David Ogden Shiers and Mel Gibson - Classic Disney, Volume 3 - (Walt Disney Records, 1996)

Sheet Music Walt Disney's Pocahontas Sheet Music

"Colors of the Wind"- Press here for over a hundred possible selections This award-winning number is available in various solo and choral arrangements.

Pocahontas piano/vocal/guitar - 11 songs from the soundtrack of the Disney hit. Includes: Colors of the Wind · If I Never Knew You · Just Around the Riverbend · Listen With Your Heart · Mine, Mine, Mine · Savages, Parts 1 & 2 · Steady as the Beating Drum (& Reprise) · and The Virginia Company (& Reprise). Also features beautiful, full-color artwork. (Hal Leonard Corporation)

Alan Menken Songbook cover."Colors of the Wind," "If I Never Knew You," and other Disney classics in Alan Menken Songbook [new browser window]

Attention choir directors or choir members: Visit our Choral Music from Stephen Schwartz Musicals page for more options.

"If I Never Knew You" - 48 different sources

New Book Chronicles Pocahontas' Development Story

Defying GravityAuthor Carol de Giere's new Stephen Schwartz biography Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked explores the genesis of Pocahontas, focusing on the score, and tells behind-the-scenes stories for the writing of "Colors of the Wind," "Just Around the Riverbend," and other songs. Reading about Pocahontas' history adds a layer of meaning to viewing of the movie.

Read more about the Stephen Schwartz biography Defying Gravity at www.defyinggravitythebook.com

Online Resources

Read about the lyricist Stephen Schwartz

Info on the film
http://www.movieweb.com/movie/pocahontas/pocprod1.txt

Bibliography of magazine articles. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pocahontas.html

"Colors of the Wind" Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

"Colors of the Wind"

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

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

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 mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

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

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 mountain
Need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind.

Copyright Wonderland Music Co. (BMI)
Walt Disney Company (ASCAP)

Colors of the Wind Parody - Three Wolf Moon tshirt

Have you seen the YouTube Three Wolf Moon tshirt spin off of Colors of the Wind? When a videomaking company created the tshirt promoting rendition of the song for Youtube, the tshirt became a best seller on Amazon.com.

Get your Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Available in Various Sizes or see the parody: Youtube video