Musical songs about warnings

[pattibelle]

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]

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

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

[Kitsune]

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

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

[Mike Costa]

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]

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

You'll See from ReNt

[Voter]

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

Something Bad from Wicked

[JudyDenmark]

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

Murder Murder from Jekyll & Hyde

And the title songs from Reefer Madness and Little Shop

[Impeach2017]

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

May I ask why?

[seaweedjstubbs]

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

“Don’t Feed the Plants”

[rabymon10]

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

The Prologue to ALW's The Woman in White

[dramamama611]

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. 

[JSquared2]

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

Small Craft Warnings from ROMANCE, ROMANCE

[JasonC3]

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]

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

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

[Dan6]

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

Eva, Beware of the City

[FranklinDickson2018]

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]

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

No Good Can Come From Bad 
 

 

[Strange Lupone]

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

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

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

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

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

[MattieIce2018]

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]

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.