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Track 2:
Sister Suffragette
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We're clearly soldiers in petticoats
And dauntless crusader for women's votes
Though we adore men individually
We agree that as a group they're rather stupid
Cast of the shackles of yesterday
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray
Our daughter's daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus
"Well done, sister suffragette"
From Kensington to Billingsgate
One hears the restless cries
From every corner of the land
Womenkind, arise
Political equality
And equal right with men
Take heart for Mrs. Pankhurst
Has been clapped on iron again
No more the meek and mild subservients we
We're fighting for our rights militantly
Never you fear
So cast of the shackles of yesterday
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray
Our daughter's daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus
"Well done...well done...well done...sister suffragette
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Track 3:
The Life I Lead
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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
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Track 4:
The Perfect Nanny
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If you want this choice position
Have a cheery disposition
Rosy cheeks, no warts
Play games, all sort
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
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Track 5:
A Spoonful of Sugar
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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
And ev'ry 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-wown
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-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
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Track 6:
Pavement Artist (Chim Chim Cher-ee)
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Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
I does what I likes and I likes what I do
Today I’m a screever and as you can see
A screever is an artist of ‘ighest degree
And its all me own work
From me own memory
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
I draws what I likes and I like what I drew
No remuneration do I ask of you
But me cap would be glad
Of a copper or two
Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
La dum, de da dum
Dad da da da dum
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Track 7:
Jolly Holiday
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[Bert:]
Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a mornin' in May
I feel like I could fly
[Mary:]
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 holiday
With Mary
Mary makes your 'eart so light
[Mary:]
You haven'y changed a bit, have you?
[Bert:]
When the day is gray
And ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright!
[Mary:] 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:] 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 'eart 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 smilin'
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:]
Oh, it's a jolly holiday
With you, Bert
Gentlemen like you are few
[Bert:]
A vanishin' breed, that's me!
[Mary:]
Though your just a diamond
In the rough, Bert
Underneath your blood is blue!
[Bert:] 'Common knowledge!
[Mary:]
You'd never think of pressing
Your advantage
For bearance is the hallmark
Of your creed
[Bert:] True!
[Mary:]
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!
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Track 8:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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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
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
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
He traveled all around the world
And everywhere he went
He'd use tis word and all would say:
"There goes a clever gent"
When dukes refused to pass the time of day with me
I'd say me special word
And then they'd offer a cup of tea!
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
You know, you can say it backwards
Which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus,
But that's going a bit to far,
Don't you think?
Indubitably!
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Here, here!
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
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 to!
She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
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Track 9:
Stay Awake
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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
You're not sleepy as you seem
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
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10: I Love to Laugh
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I love to laugh Ha!Ha!Ha!
Loud and long and clear....
I love to laugh Ho!Ho!Ho!
It's getting worse ev'ry year
The more I laugh Ha!Ha!Ha!
The more I fill glee...
And the more the glee He!He!He!
The more I'm a merrier me Ha!Ha! me Ho!Ho!me!!!
It's embarrassing! The more I'm a merrier me!
(reprise)
Some people laugh though their noses,
Sounding something like this (silly laughing noise)
Some people laugh through their teeth...
goodness sakes, Hissing and fussing like snakes (tzz, tzz, tzz)
Some laugh too fast (silly laughing noise)
some only blast (Loud Hah!)
Others, they twitter like birds (tee hee hee hee hee)
Then there's the kind that can't make up their mind:
(silly laughing noises)
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!Ha!Ha!Ha! too!!!!
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11: A British Bank (The Life I Lead)
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Mr Banks:
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
Mr Banks:
The children must be molded,
shaped and taught
That life's a looming battle
to be faced and fought
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 overflow
Mr 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
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12: Feed the Birds (Tupperence a Bag)
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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."
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13: Fidelity Fiduciary Bank
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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!
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14: Chim Chim Cher-ee
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[Bert:]
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
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
[All:]
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 broom for the flume
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!
[Mary:]
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
[Both:]
Than them wot sings
"Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!"
On the chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!
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15: Step In Time
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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
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
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16: A Man Has Dreams (The Life I Lead)(A Spoonful of Sugar)
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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.
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17: Let's Go Fly a Kite
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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!
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Track
18: Interview with the Sherman Brothers
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No Lyrics for this track.
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