THE LIFE I LEAD

I feel a surge of deep satisfaction
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!

Mrs Banks: Dear it's about the children
Mr Banks: Yes, yes, yes, yes

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

Mrs Banks: George they're missing
Mr Banks: Splendid, splendid

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 sov'reign, the liege!
I treat my subjects: servants,
children, wife
With a firm but gentle hand
Noblesse Oblige!

It's 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

A BRITISH NANNY

A British nanny must be a general!
The future empire lies within her hands
And so the person that we need to mould the breed
Is a nanny who can give commands!

Mr Banks: Are you getting this Winifred?
Mrs Banks: Oh yes dear, every word

A British bank is run with precision
A British home requires nothing less!
Tradition, discipline, and rules
must be the tools
Without them - disorder!
Catastrophe! Anarchy -
In short you have a ghastly mess!

"Wanted: A Nanny for Two Adorable Children"
From: Mary Poppins
Performed by: Karen Dotrice [Jane Banks]

If you want this choice position
Have a cheery disposition

Mr. Banks: Now Jane, I don't...

Rosy cheeks no warts

Michael: That's the part I put in.

Play games, all sorts
You must be kind
You must witty
Very sweet and fairly pretty

Mr. Banks: Well of all the ridiculous...
Mrs. Banks: George, please!

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

Michael: I put that part in too

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: Jane and Michael Banks

A Spoonful of Sugar
From "Mary Poppins"
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by: Julie Andrews [Mary Poppins]

In ev'ry job that must be done
There is an element of fun
you find the fun and snap!
The job's a game

Nad ev'ry task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake
A lark! Aspree!
It's very clear to see

That a...
Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down
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
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 task is not a grind

Jolly Holiday
From "Mary Poppins"
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by: Dick Van Dyke [Bert], Julie Andrews [Mary Poppins]

Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a mornin' in May
I feel like I could fly
'Ave you ever seen
The grass so green?
Or a bluer sky?

Oh, it's a jolly holiday
With Mary
Mary makes your 'eart so light
When the day is gray
And ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright!

Oh 'appiness is bloomin'
All around 'er
The daffoldils are smilin'
At the dove
When Mary 'olds your 'and
You feel so grand
Your 'eart starts beatin'
Like a big brass band
Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary
No wonder that it's Mary that we love!

Now then what'd be nice
We'll start with raspberry ice
And then some cakes and tea
Order what you will
There'll be no bill
It's complimentary

Oh, it's a jolly holiday
With you, Bert
Gentlemen like you are few
Though your just a diamond
In the rough, Bert
Underneath your blood is blue!

You'd never think of pressing
Your advantage
For bearance is the hallmark
Of your creed
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!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
From "Mary Poppins"
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by: Julie Andrews [Mary Poppins]

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
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
Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad
My 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
The biggest word I 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!

[You know you can say iy backwards, which is dociousaliespiesticfragicalirupus but that's going a bit too far. wouldn't you say?]
[Indubitabily!]

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word
And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully
Or it may change your life
[For example? Yes?]
One night I said it to me girl
And now me girl's my wife!
[*smack* Ohhh, and a lovely thing she is, too..]
She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

"Stay Awake"

Stay awake
Don't rest your head.
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,
Your not sleepy as you seem.
Stay awake,
Don't nod and dream.

Stay awake,
Don't nod and dream...

A BRITISH BANK
(THE LIFE I LEAD)

A British bank is run with precision
A British home requires nothing less!
Tradition, discipline, and rules
must be the tools
Without them - disorder! Chaos!
Moral Disintegration!
In short, you have a ghastly mess

Mary Poppins: I quite agree

The children must be moulded,
shaped and taught
That life's a looming battle
to be faced and fought

Mr Banks: In short I am disturbed to hear
my children talking about popping in
and out of chalk pavement pictures,
consorting with racehorse persons,
foxhunting! Yes, well I don't mind
that quite so much - at any rate it's
traditional. But tea parties on the ceiling
I ask you! Having tea parties on the ceiling-
and highly questionable outings
of every other kind!

If they must go on outings, these
outings ought to be
Fraught with purpose, yes!
And practicality!
These silly words like
superca... superca... superca

Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Mr Banks: Yes, well done, you said it

And popping through pictures
Have little use, fulfil no basic need
They've got to learn the honest truth
despite their youth
They must learn

Mary Poppins: About the life you lead

Mr Banks: Exactly

Mary Poppins:
They must feel the thrill of totting
up a balanced book
A thousand ciphers neatly in a row

Mr Banks: Quite right

Mary Poppins:
When gazing at a chart that shows the profits up
their little cup of joy should overflowMr Banks: Precisely

Mary Poppins:
It's time they learned to walk in your footsteps

Mr Banks: My footsteps

Mary Poppins:
To tread your straight and narrow path with pride

Mr Banks: With pride

Mary Poppins:
Tomorrow, just as you suggest
pressed and dressed
Jane and Michael will be at your side

Feed the Birds
From "Mary Poppins"
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by: Julie Andrews [Mary Poppins]

Early each day to the steps of Saint Paul's
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,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag."

"Fidelity, Fiduciary Bank"

If you invest your tuppence 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!

No, 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!

You see, Michael
Tuppence Patiently, cautiously, trustingly invested
In the, to be specific,
In the Dawes, Tomes
Mousely, Grubs
Fidelity, Feduciary Bank!

Chim Chim Cher-ee
From "Mary Poppins"
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by: Dick Van Dyke [Bert], et al.

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 shake '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 soot
In this 'ole wide world
There's no 'appier bloke

Up where the smoke is
All billered and curled
'Tween pavement and stars
Is the chimney sweep world

When the'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!

I choose me bristles with pride
Yes, I do
A broom for the shaft
And a broom for the flume

Though I'm covered with soot
From me 'ead to me toes
A sweep knows 'e's welcome
Wherever 'e goes

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
When you're with a sweep
You're in glad company

No where is there
A more 'appier crew
Than them wot sings
"Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!"
On the chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!

 

A MAN HAS DREAMS

A man has dreams of walking with giants
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 bought to rack and ruin in his prime

Bert: Life is a rum goal guv'nor and that's the truth

Mr Banks: You know what I think? It's that woman
Mary Poppins. From the moment she stepped
in to this house - things began to happen to me!

Bert: Mary Poppins?

Mr Banks: Yes, yes of course

My world was calm, well ordered, EXEMPLARY
Then came this person with chaos in her wake
And now my life's ambitions go with on felt blow
It's quite a bitter pill to take

Mr Banks: It's that Poppins women, she did it!

Bert: I know the very person you mean
Mary Poppins - she's the one what sings...

A spoonful of sugar, that is all it takes
It changes brad and water into tea and cakes

Mr Banks: See, that's exactly what I mean
Changing bread and water into tea
and cakes indeed - no wonder everything's
higgldy piggldy here.

Bert: A spoonful of sugar goes a long, long way
Have yourself an healthy helping every day...

An healthy helping and crubble if you ask me

Mr Banks: Do you know what she did?
I realise it now - she tricked me
in to taking Jane and Michael to
the bank - that's how all the
trouble started.

Bert: Tricked you in to taking the children on an outing?

Mr Banks: Yes

Bert: Outrageous! A man of all the important things
you have to do - Shameful!

You're a man of high position
Esteemed by your peers
And when your little tykes are crying'
You haven't time to dry their tears
And see them grateful little faces
smiling up at you
Because their dad, he always knows just
what to do....

Like you say guv'nor

You've got to grind, grind, grind
at that grindstone
Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve
And all too soon they've up and grown
And then they've flown
And it's too late for you to give
Just that spoonful of sugar to help
the medicine go down
The medicine go dow-wown, medicine go down.