Much as a king astride his noble steed
When I return from daily strife
To hearth and wife
How pleasant is the life I lead
I run my home precisely on schedule
At 6:01 I march through my door
My slippers, sherry, and pipe are due
At 6:02
Consistent is the life I lead
It’s grand to be an Englishman in 1910
King Edward’s on the throne
It’s the age of men
I’m the lord of my castle
The sovereign, the liege
I treat my subjects, servants, children, wife
With a firm but gentle hand
Noblisse oblige
Its 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion
Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed
And so I’ll pat them on the head
And send them off to bed
Ah, lordly is the life I lead
Have a cheery disposition
Rosy cheeks, no warts
Play games, all sorts
You must be kind, you must be witty
Very sweet and fairly pretty
Take us on outings, give us treats
Sing songs, bring sweets
Never be cross or cruel
Never give us castor oil or gruel
Love us as a son and daughter
And never smell of barley water
If you won't scold and dominate us
We will never give you cause to hate us
We won't hide your spectacles so you can't see
Put toads in your bed or pepper in your tea
Hurry, Nanny
Many thanks sincerely
Jane and Michael Banks
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap!
The job's a game
And every task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake
A lark! A spree!
It's very clear to see
That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-own
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
A robin feathering his nest
Has very little time to rest
While gathering his
Bits of twine and twig
Though quite intent in his pursuit
He has a merry tune to toot
He knows a song
Will move the job along
For a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-own
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
The honeybees that fetch the nectar
From the flowers to the comb
Never tire of ever buzzing to and fro
Because they take a little nip
From every flower that they sip
And hence (And hence)
They find (They find)
Their tasks is not a grind
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when
I shakes 'ands with you
Or blow me a kiss
And that's lucky too
Now as the ladder of life
'As been strung
You may think a sweep's
On the bottommost rung
Though I spends me time
In the ashes and smoke
In this 'ole wide world
There's no 'appier bloke
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off
When I shakes 'ands with you
BERT, JANE, & MICHAEL: Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off
When I shakes 'ands with you
BERT: I choose me bristles with pride
Yes, I do
A broom for the shaft
And a brush for the flue
Up where the smoke is
All billered and curled
'Tween pavement and stars
Is the chimney sweep world
When there's 'ardly no day
Nor 'ardly no night
There's things 'alf in shadow
And 'alf way in light
On the roof tops of London
Coo, what a sight!
MARY POPPINS: Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee
When you're with a sweep
You're in glad company
BERT: No where is there
A more 'appier crew
MARY POPPINS & BERT: Than them what sings
Chim cher-ee
Chim-cher-oo
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo
Right as a mornin' in May
I feel like I could fly
MARY POPPINS (SPOKEN): Now Bert, none of your larking about!
BERT: 'Ave you ever seen
The grass so green?
Or a bluer sky?
Oh, it's a jolly 'oliday with Mary
Mary makes your 'eart so light
MARY POPPINS (SPOKEN): You haven't changed a bit, have you?
BERT: When the day is gray and ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright!
MARY POPPINS (SPOKEN): Oh, honestly!
BERT: Oh 'appiness is bloomin' all around 'er
The daffodils are smilin' at the dove
When Mary 'olds your 'and
You feel so grand
Your 'eart starts beatin' like a big brass band
MARY POPPINS (SPOKEN): You are lightheaded!
BERT: It's a jolly holiday with Mary
No wonder that it's Mary that we love!
BARN ANIMALS: Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary
Mary makes your heart so light
When the day is gray and ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright!
Oh 'appiness is bloomin' all around 'er
The daffodils are smiling at the dove
When Mary 'olds your 'and
You feel so grand
Your 'eart starts beatin' like a big brass band
It's a jolly holiday with Mary
No wonder that it's Mary that we love!
MARY POPPINS: Oh, it's a jolly holiday
With you, Bert
Gentlemen like you are few
BERT (SPOKEN): A vanishin' breed, that's me!
MARY POPPINS: Though you're just a diamond
In the rough, Bert
Underneath your blood is blue!
BERT (SPOKEN): 'Common knowledge!
MARY POPPINS: You'd never think of pressing your advantage
Forbearance is the hallmark of your creed
BERT (SPOKEN): True!
MARY POPPINS: A lady needn't fear when you are near
Your sweet gentility is crystal clear!
Oh, it's a jolly holiday with you, Bert
A jolly, jolly holiday with you!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
THE PEARLIES: Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
BERT: Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad
Me father gave me nose a tweak
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me aching nose
BERT & MARY POPPINS: The biggest word you've ever heard
And this is how it goes:
Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay (Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay) (Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay)
MARY POPPINS: He traveled all around the world
And everywhere he went
He'd use his word and all would say:
"There goes a clever gent"
BERT: When dukes and maharajahs passed the time of day with me
I'd say me special word
And then they'd ask me out to tea!
MARY POPPINS & BERT: Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
PEARLIES: Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
MARY POPPINS (SPOKEN): You know, you can say it backwards
Which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus
But that's going a bit to far
Don't you think?
BERT: Indubitably!
MARY POPPINS: So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
BERT: Here, here!
MARY POPPINS: Just summon up this word
And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully
Or it could change your life
MARY POPPINS & MALE PEARLIE: Um, for example?
Yes?
One night I said it to me girl
And now me girl's my wife!
Oh, and a lovely thing she is too!
ALL: She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Don't lie down upon your bed
While the moon drifts in the skies
Stay awake, don't close your eyes
Though the world is fast asleep
Though your pillow's soft and deep
You're not sleepy as you seem
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
Loud and long and clear
I love to laugh
It's getting worse ev'ry year
The more I laugh
The more I fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more I'm a merrier me
It's embarrassing!
The more I'm a merrier me!
MARY POPPINS: Some people laugh through their noses
Sounding something like this "Mmmhehe"
Dreadful!
Some people laugh through their teeth goodness sake
Hissing and fizzing like snakes
Not at all attractive, to my way of thinking
BERT: Some laugh too fast
Some only blast - ha!
Others, they twitter like birds
Then there's the kind
What can't make up their mind
UNCLE ALBERT: When things strike me as funny
I can't hide it inside
And squeak - as the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho-ho-ho...
And a ha-ha-ha...too!
All: We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So ev'rybody can hear
The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more we're a merrier we!
The little old bird woman comes
In her own special way to the people she calls
Come, buy my bags full of crumbs
Come feed the little birds, show them you care
And you'll be glad if you do
Their young ones are hungry
Their nests are so bare
All it takes is tuppence from you
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
"Feed the birds," that's what she cries
While overhead, her birds fill the skies
All around the cathedral the saints and apostles
Look down as she sells her wares
Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares
Though her words are simple and few
Listen, listen, she's calling to you
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
Wisely in the bank
Safe and sound
Soon that tuppence
Safely invested in the bank
Will compound
And you'll achieve that sense of conquest
As your affluence expands
In the hands of the directors
Who invest as propriety demands
You see, Michael, you'll be part of
Railways through Africa
Dams across the Nile
Fleets of ocean greyhounds
Majestic, self-amortizing canals
Plantations of ripening tea
All from tuppence, prudently
Fruitfully, frugally invested
In the, to be specific
In the Dawes, Tomes
Mousely, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank!
Now, Michael
When you deposit tuppence in a bank account
Soon you'll see
That it blooms into credit of a generous amount
Semiannually
And you'll achieve that sense of stature
As your influence expands
To the high financial strata
That established credit now commands
You can purchase first and second trust deeds
Think of the foreclosures!
Bonds! Chattels! Dividends! Shares!
Bankruptcies! Debtor sales!
Opportunities!
All manner of private enterprise!
Shipyards! The mercantile!
Collieries! Tanneries!
Incorporations! Amalgamations! Banks!
You see, Michael
Tuppence, patiently, cautiously trustingly invested
In the, to be specific
In the Dawes, Tomes
Mousely, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank!
Step in time, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Step in time, we step in time
Kick your knees up, step in time
Kick your knees up, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Kick your knees up, step in time
Round the chimney, step in time
Round the chimney, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Round the chimney, step in time
Flap like a birdie, step in time
Flap like a birdie, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Flap like a birdie, step in time
Up on the railing, step in time
Up on the railing, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Up on the railing step in time
Over the rooftops, step in time
Over the rooftops, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Step in time
Over the rooftops! Over the rooftops!
Link your elbows, step in time
Link your elbows, step in time
Link your elbows, link your elbows
Step in time, step in time
Step in time, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Step in time, we step in time
To carve his niche in the edifice of time
Before the mortar of his zeal
Has a chance to congeal
The cup is dashed from his lips
The flame is snuffed aborning
He's brought to rack and ruin in his prime
My world was calm, well ordered, exemplary
Then came this person, with chaos in her wake
And now my life's ambitions go with one fell blow
It's quite a bitter pill to take
BERT: A spoonful of sugar that is all it takes
It changes bread and water into tea and cakes
A spoonful of sugar goes a long, long way
'Ave yourself a 'ealthy 'elpin' ev'ry day
You're a man of 'igh position
Esteemed by your peers
And when your little tykes are cryin'
You 'aven't time to dry their tears
And see them grateful little faces
Smilin' up at you
Because their dad, 'e always knows
Just what to do
You've got to grind, grind, grind
At that grindstone
Though child'ood slips like sand through a sieve
And all too soon they've up grown
And then they've flown
And it's too late for you to give
Just that spoonful of sugar
To 'elp the medicine go down
The medicine go down, the medicine go down
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground
You're a bird in flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite
Oh Oh Oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite
Let's go fly a kite!
BERT: When you send it flying up there
All at once you're lighter than air
You can dance of the breeze over
'ouses and trees
With your fist 'olding tight
To the string of your kite
CHORUS: Oh Oh Oh
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite
Let's go fly a kite
