help identifying South Pacific lyrics

I'm not terribly familiar with South Pacific, but it sounds like it should be from Emile's song in the 2nd act? "This Nearly Was Mine?" Correct me if I'm wrong.

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It's Emile's responce after "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" right before "This Nearly Was Mine". It's on pretty much all the recordings except the RNT revival which has different lyrics and still comes after "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught", but is followed by "Now is the Time" as "This Nearly Was Mine" comes later in the show. Here are the alternate lyrics...

It will grow like a weed
On a mountain of stones;
You don't have to feed
Or put fat on its bones;
It can live on a smile
Or a note of a song;
It may starve for a while,
But it stumbles along,
Stumbles along with its banner unfurled,
The joy and the beauty, the hope of the world.

Updated On: 3/24/08 at 03:27 PM

That would be Royal National Theatre.

The R&H Library will provide the music (it's a double-sidedpage which slips into the piano score and the orchestrations.

They sent them to us for my production in 1974.

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