This song is sung by Bella and Rebecca while on the boat on the way to America. It is pretty much the only song that isn’t a reprise that isn’t on the cast recording.
This song is sung right before Ben’s first entrance, which in some scripts is followed by Yankee Boy as sung by Ben, however in the o...
[Bella]
Soon we'll be there
Where it's so fine to live
What if we never meet again?
[Rebecca]
You'll have your life
And I'll have mine to live
But if we never meet again
[Bella]
Thank you for being my friend for a while
Helping me smile when the seas were to rough for me
[Bella & Rebecca]
You know I wish
Only good things for you
[Rebecca]
Dresses and dances and boys with gold rings for you
[Bella & Rebecca]
Everything sweet
If we never meet again
Who would have thought on this dark dirty ship
Here in the hold where the nights never end
Who would have thought on this terrible trip
I'd find a savior, a sister
A friend
Now we must part
Going our separate ways
There in the golden land
Living those better days
But not quite complete
If we never meet again
What If We Never Meet Again? was written by Stephen Schwartz & Charles Strouse.
Stephen Schwartz released What If We Never Meet Again? on Tue Jun 18 1991.