Overture (Sherman / Sherman)

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheree
a sweep is as lucky as lucky can be
chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
good luck will rub off when he shakes hands with you
chim chiminy, chim chim cheree, chim cheroo
rum diddly-diddly-diddly rum diddle-die
rum diddly-diddly-diddly rum diddle-die

One-man-band (Sherman / Sherman)

Room here for everyone, gather around
the constable's "responstable", now, how does that sound ?
hello, Miss Lark, I got one for you
Miss Lark likes to walk in the park with Andrew
ah, Mrs Cory, a story for you
your daughters were shorter than you but they grew
dear Miss Persimmon .... (yes ?)

Wind's in the east, mist comin' in
like something is brewin' about to begin
can't put me finger on what lies in store
but I feel what's to happen, all happened before

Sister Suffragette (Sherman / Sherman)

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 Suf ...

The life I lead / A British bank (Sherman / Sherman)

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

I run my home precisely on schedule
at six-o-one I march through my door
my slippers sherry and pipe are due at six-o-two
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: noblesse oblige

It's six-o-three 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 must be a general
the future empire lies within her hands
and so the person that we need to mold the breed
is a nanny who can give commands

A British bank is run with precision
the British home requires nothing less
tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools
with out them disorder, catastrophe, anarchy
in short you have a ghastly mess

The perfect nanny (Sherman / Sherman)

If you want this choice position
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

A spoonful of sugar (Sherman / Sherman)

(spoken:) 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 me

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

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

Pavement artist (Sherman / Sherman)

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
I does what I likes and I likes what I do
today I'm a screever and as you can see
a screever's an artist of highest degree
and it's all me own work from me own memory

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
I draws what I likes and I likes what I drew
no remuneration do I ask of you
but me cap would be glad of a copper or two
me cap would be glad of a copper or two

Jolly holiday / Cream of the top / Jolly holiday (Reprise)  (Sherman / Sherman)

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 'oliday 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 'oliday with Mary
no wonder that it's Mary that we love

Oh, it's a jolly 'oliday 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 'oliday with Mary
no wonder that it's Mary that we love

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with you, Bert
gentlemen like you are few
though you're just a diamond in the rough, Bert
underneath your blood is blue

You'd never think of pressing your advantage
forbearance 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

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

It's true that Mavis and Sybil 'ave ways that are winning
and Prudence and Gwendolyn set your 'eart spinning
Phoebe's delightful, Maude is disarming
Janice, Felicia, Lydia - charming
Cynthia's dashing, Vivian's sweet
Stephanie's smashing, Priscilla a treat
Veronica, Millicent, Agnes and Jane
convival company, time and again
Drocas and Phyllis and Glynis are sorts
I'll agree are three jolly good sports
but cream of the crop, tip of the top
it's Mary Poppins, and there we stop

When Mary holds your hand you feel so grand
your heart starts beatin' like a big brass band
it's a jolly holiday with Mary
no wonder that it's Mary that we love
no wonder that it's Mary that we love
no wonder that it's Mary that we love

Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious (Sherman / Sherman)

It's supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious

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

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, supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious

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

He's travelled all around the world and everywhere he went
he'd use his word and all would say: "there goes a clever gent"
when dukes and maharajahs pass the time of day with me
I'd say me special word and then they'd ask me out to tea

Ooh, supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious

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 could change your life
for example ? - yes ! - one night I said it to me girl and now me girl's me wife

She's supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious

Pavement artist (Reprise) (Sherman / Sherman)

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
la dum, da da dum, da da da da dum

Stay awake (Sherman / Sherman)

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

I love to laugh (Sherman / Sherman)

I love to laugh, loud and long and clear
I love to laugh, it's getting worse every year
the more I laugh, the more I fill with glee
the more the glee, the more I'm a merrier me
(it's embarrassing) the more I'm a merrier me

Some people laugh through their noses
sounding something like this "....", dreadful
some people laugh through their teeth, goodness sakes
hissing and fizzing like snakes

Some laugh too fast, some only blast
others, they twitter like birds
then there's that kind what can't make up their mind

When things strike me as funny
I can't hide it inside
and squeak *queak* as the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho ho ho ho
and laugh too

We love to laugh loud and long and clear
ae love to laugh so everybody can hear
the more you laugh the more you fill with glee
the more the glee, the more we're a merrier we

A British bank (part 2) (Sherman / Sherman)

A British bank is run with precision
the British home requires nothing less
tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools
with out them disorder, chaos, moral disintegration
in short you have a ghastly mess

The children must be molded, shaped and taught
that life's a looming battle to be faced and fought
if they must go on outings those outings ought to be
fraught with purpose, yes, and practicality

These silly words like supercali..., supercali...
supercalifragilistic-expialidocious
yes, well done, you said it
and popping through pictures
have little use, fulfill no basic need
they must face the honest truth, despite their youth
they must ... learn about the life you lead (precisely)

They must feel the thrill of totting up a balanced book
a thousand ciphers neatly in a row
when gazing at a graph that shows the profits up
their little cups of joy should overflow

It's time they learned to walk in your footsteps
to tread your straight and narrow path with pride
tomorrow just as you suggest, pressed and dressed
Jane and Michael will be at your side

Feed the birds (tuppence a bag) (Sherman / Sherman)

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"

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 (Sherman / Sherman)

(spoken:)
Fiddlesticks, boy, feed the birds and what have you got ? fat birds

But 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'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, thriftily, frugally
invested in the - to be specific -
in the Dawes-Tomes-Mousley-Grubbs
fidelity fiduciary Bank

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

... Tuppence, patiently, cautiously, trustingly
invested in the - to be specific
in the Dawes-Tomes-Mousley-Grubbs
fidelity fiduciary Bank

Chim chim cer-ee (Sherman / Sherman)

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheree
a sweep is as lucky as lucky can be
chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
good luck will rub off when I shakes hands with you
or blow me a kiss and that's lucky too

Now as the ladder of life has been strung
you might think a sweep's on the bottommost rung
though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke
in this whole wide world there's no happier bloke

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheree
a sweep is as lucky as lucky can be
chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
good luck will rub off when I shakes hands with you

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheree
a sweep is as lucky as lucky can be
chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheroo
good luck will rub off when I shakes hands with you

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 billowed and curled
'tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world
when there's hardly no day nor hardly no night
there's things half in shadow and halfway in light
on the rooftops of London, coo, what a sight

Chim chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheree
when you're with a sweep, you're in glad company
nowhere is there a more happier crew
then them what sings chim chim cheree, chim cheroo
chim chiminy chim chim, cheree chim cheroo

Step in time (Sherman / Sherman)

Step in time, step in time, step in time, step in time
step in time, step in time
step in time, step in time
come on, mateys, step in time

(Step in time) step in time, step in time
step in time, step in time
never need a reason, never need a rhyme&127;
we step in time, we step in time

(Kick your knees up) 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) round the chimney, step in time
round the chimney, step in time
never need a reason, never need a rhyme
round the chimney, we step in time

(Clap like a birdie) clap like a birdie, step in time
clap like a birdie, step in time
never need a reason, never need a rhyme
clap like a birdie in time

(Up on the railing) 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) over the rooftops, step in time
over the rooftops, step in time
never need a reason, never need a rhyme
step it time
over the rooftops, over the rooftops

(Link your elbows) link your elbows, step in time
link your elbows, step in time
link your elbows, 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
when you step in time, you step in time

Mary Poppins, step in time

They're at it again, step it time
at it again, Step in time
they're at it again, step in time

(Ow) ow, step in time
ow, step in time
never need a reason, never need a rhyme
whoa, step in time

Votes for women, step in time
votes for women, step in time
votes for women, votes for women

(It's the master) It's the master, step in time
it's the master, step in time

(what's all this ?) what's all this, what's all this ?
what's all this, what's all this ?
what's all this, what's all this ?
link your elbows, step in time ,what's all this ?
kick your knees up, what's all this ?, step in time
kick your knees up, kick your knees up
kick your knees up, kick your knees up
in time

A man has dreams (Sherman / Sherman)

A man has dreams of walking with giants
to carve his name 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 a-borning
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

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
have yourself a healthy helpin' every day

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 their grateful little faces smiling up at you
because their dad, he always knows just what to do

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 down, the medicine go down

Let's go fly a kite (Sherman / Sherman)

With tuppence for paper and strings
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
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

When you send it flying up there
all at once you're lighter than air
you can dance on the breeze over houses and trees
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

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