Poor thing. Every day they'd nudge and they'd wheedle! So they merely shipped the poor blighter off south, they did, Leavin' 'er with nothing but grief and a year-old kid! If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out? Poor Thing Lyrics: Isn't that a room up there over the pie shop? There were these two, y'see, Wanted her like mad, One of 'em a judge, t'other one his beadle! Poor Thing lyrics performed by Sweeney Todd: Mrs. Lovett There was a barber and his wife. They're having this ball all in masks There's no one she knows there, poor dear, poor thing She wanders tormented and DRINKS, poor thing! Of course when she goes there, poor thing, poor thing! That should bring in something / Up there? Poor thing. Oh, no, I don't go near it. Poor thing Joanna, that was the child's name Pretty little Joanna, go on My, you do like a good story, don't you? People think Sweeney Todd Poor Thing Lyrics. Too bad, Pure thing. But she wouldn't budge from her needle!