Musical songs about warnings

[pattibelle]

Musical songs about warnings#1

Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:03pm

Can anyone help me out with songs where a character or characters warns another character about something? A place, a person or a thing? Thanks so much in advance. 

[Melissa25]

Musical songs about warnings#2

Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:10pm

A Boy Like That from West Side Story is the first thing that I thought of.

[Kitsune]

Musical songs about warnings#3

Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:55pm

The first thing that popped into my head was, "Something Bad is Happening" from Falsettoland. 

[Mike Costa]

Musical songs about warnings#4

Posted: 4/3/23 at 12:15am

The witch is warning the survivors in Into The Woods, when she sings It's The Last Midnight.

Don Quijote sings" Hear me now oh thy bleak and unbearable  world" in I am I from  Man of La Mancha

Little Chap warns "Stand well back I'm coming through," in Nothing Can Stop Me Now from The Roar of the Greasepaint...

And, of course, Mary Rogers rhymes warning with morning in Once Upon a Mattress. Yesterday I Loved you.

[blaxx]

Musical songs about warnings#5

Posted: 4/3/23 at 12:32am

You'll See from ReNt

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[Voter]

Musical songs about warnings#6

Posted: 4/3/23 at 1:31am

Something Bad from Wicked

[JudyDenmark]

Musical songs about warnings#7

Posted: 4/3/23 at 5:07am

Murder Murder from Jekyll & Hyde

And the title songs from Reefer Madness and Little Shop

[Impeach2017]

Musical songs about warnings#8

Posted: 4/3/23 at 6:03am

May I ask why?

[seaweedjstubbs]

Musical songs about warnings#9

Posted: 4/3/23 at 8:09am

“Don’t Feed the Plants”

[rabymon10]

Musical songs about warnings#10

Posted: 4/3/23 at 9:09am

The Prologue to ALW's The Woman in White

[dramamama611]

Musical songs about warnings#11

Posted: 4/3/23 at 9:26am

BARE has one entitled WARNING, sung by one of the mum's, Claire.   It's more about not getting a warning for her son's coming out. 

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[JSquared2]

Musical songs about warnings#12

Posted: 4/3/23 at 11:19am

Small Craft Warnings from ROMANCE, ROMANCE

[JasonC3]

Musical songs about warnings#13

Posted: 4/3/23 at 3:38pm

Sixteen Going on Seventeen from The Sound of Music.

Sample:

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

You need someone older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I´ll take care of you

[The Bittersweets]

Musical songs about warnings#14

Posted: 4/3/23 at 7:24pm

First thing that comes to mind is A Warning to Monty from A Gentleman’s Guide.

[Dan6]

Musical songs about warnings#15

Posted: 4/3/23 at 7:26pm

Eva, Beware of the City

[FranklinDickson2018]

Musical songs about warnings#16

Posted: 4/3/23 at 7:35pm

I personally like "Fair Warning" from Harold Rome's "Destry Rides Again." (1959) and would "Just you Wait Henry Higgins " also be a warning song?

[Strange Lupone]

Musical songs about warnings#17

Posted: 4/3/23 at 10:43pm

No Good Can Come From Bad 
 

 

“I attended Gypsy last night with several family members that are staying at the same hotel . I walked them to the elevators and as I was leaving, Audra came in fast and this disgusting, huge, ogre of a man came blasting through the revolving door, nearly falling. He got extremely close to her, shoved a playbill in her face and said "I came alllll the way from Houston so you OWE me an autograph sister". Four security guards from the hotel staff immediately swarmed him until the cops arrived. It was horrifying and women have experienced this kind of illegal, terrifying behavior forever. If you were followed back to where you were staying in the city OP, pretty sure you wouldn't call it "foolery" because it's not. It's felony stalking. Do better. And I will NEVER be quiet regarding women's safety (especially by loser men in this thread) as this has happened to me and millions of other women as well. Enough..” —-Sutton Ross, 8/16/25 “Pretty incredible coincidence that the night before this post was made, Sutton was allegedly not only at Gypsy, but ended up at the same hotel, managed to witness an incident that perfectly aligns with the topic at hand, stayed long enough to see how it resolved despite being with family members, and it wasn’t even the first thing she replied to this thread with- she only brought it up after she had been challenged by multiple members. ” — Kad, 8/16/25

[Strange Lupone]

Musical songs about warnings#18

Posted: 4/3/23 at 10:49pm

Revenge from “It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Superman!”

“I attended Gypsy last night with several family members that are staying at the same hotel . I walked them to the elevators and as I was leaving, Audra came in fast and this disgusting, huge, ogre of a man came blasting through the revolving door, nearly falling. He got extremely close to her, shoved a playbill in her face and said "I came alllll the way from Houston so you OWE me an autograph sister". Four security guards from the hotel staff immediately swarmed him until the cops arrived. It was horrifying and women have experienced this kind of illegal, terrifying behavior forever. If you were followed back to where you were staying in the city OP, pretty sure you wouldn't call it "foolery" because it's not. It's felony stalking. Do better. And I will NEVER be quiet regarding women's safety (especially by loser men in this thread) as this has happened to me and millions of other women as well. Enough..” —-Sutton Ross, 8/16/25 “Pretty incredible coincidence that the night before this post was made, Sutton was allegedly not only at Gypsy, but ended up at the same hotel, managed to witness an incident that perfectly aligns with the topic at hand, stayed long enough to see how it resolved despite being with family members, and it wasn’t even the first thing she replied to this thread with- she only brought it up after she had been challenged by multiple members. ” — Kad, 8/16/25

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Musical songs about warnings#19

Posted: 4/3/23 at 10:54pm

I'd argue "Turn Back, O Man" from Godspell counts.

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[MattieIce2018]

Musical songs about warnings#20

Posted: 4/4/23 at 12:32am

Hadestown has “Word to the Wise,” in which the Fates warn Hades of the consequences of his decision to let Orpheus go (whether he does or does not allow it). 

[weaselprince71]

Musical songs about warnings#21

Posted: 4/4/23 at 1:35am

"(Ya Got) Trouble" from The Music Man.  Along with its numerous parodies.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet; this seems like the obvious granddaddy of the "warning song" genre, even if the "person, place or thing" being warned-against -- a pool table -- is comically unworthy of all the fuss.  Or actually maybe because of that:  Hill's rabble-rousing really is pure "warning", unencumbered by any actual facts, reasonable inferences, or even any genuine concern for the people he's warning.