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 achin' nose
The biggest word you 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 his word and all would say There goes a clever gent
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
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 dociousaliexpiistic-fragilcalirupus.
- But that's going too far, don't you think? - lndubitably.
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 l said it to me girl, and now me girl's me wife.
And a lovely thing she is too.
She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Chim chiminy, chim chiminy Chim chim cheroo
La dum, da da dum, da da da da dum...
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
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
- You're no help at all. - The more the glee
The more I'm a merrier me
lt'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
Not at all attractive to my way of thinking.
Some laugh too fast
Some only blast
Others, they twitter like birds
You know, you're as bad as he is.
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
As the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho-ho-ho-ho
And laugh
How nice! l was hoping you'd turn up.
- Turn up! - We always have such a jolly time.
We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So everybody can hear
The more you laugh
Whoops, don't you two start. Come back down here.
The more you fill with glee
The more the glee
The more we're a merrier we
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
l quite agree.
The children must be molded, shaped and taught
That life's a looming battle to be faced and fought
ln short, l am disturbed to hear my children
talking about popping in and out of chalk pavement pictures,
consorting with racehorse persons, fox hunting...
Yes, well, l don't mind that quite so much. At any rate, it's traditional.
But tea parties on the ceiling? l 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... Super...
- Superca... - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Yes, well done. You said it.
And popping through pictures
Have little use Fulfill no basic need
They've got to learn the honest truth
Despite their youth They must learn...
- About the life you lead - Exactly.
They must feel the thrill of totting up a balanced book
- A thousand ciphers neatly in a row - Quite right.
When gazing at a graph that shows the profit's up
- Their little cup ofjoy should overflow - Precisely!
It's time they learned to walk in your footsteps
My footsteps.
To tread your straight and narrow path with pride
With pride.
Tomorrow, just as you suggest, Pressed and dressed
Jane and Michael will be at your side
Early each day to the steps of St. 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
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
- May l, sir? - Carry on, Banks.
You see, Michael, you'll be part of...
- Railways through Africa - Exactly!
Dams across the Nile
The ships. Tell them about the ships.
- Fleets of ocean greyhounds - More, tell them more!
- Majestic self-amortizing canals - Oh, it fires the imagination!
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
- Very well, my boy, give me the money. - No, l won't! l want it to feed the birds.
- Banks! - Yes, sir. Now, Michael...
When you deposit tuppence in a bank account
- Go on! - Soon you'll see
Tell them more!
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
- Corporations - Amalgamations
Banks!
While stand the banks of England...
England stands.
When fall the banks of England, England falls!
You see, Michael? All for the lack of...
Tuppence
Patiently, cautiously
Trustingly invested in the...
To be specific
In the Dawes, Tomes, Mousley, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank
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
Oh, it's awfully dark and gloomy up there.
There now - you see how wrong people can be?
That there is what you might call a doorway to a place of enchantment.
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
Than them what sings chim chim cheree, chim cheroo
Chim chiminy chim chim
Cheree chim cheroo
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 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
Flap like a birdie.
Flap like a birdie, step in time Flap like a birdie, step in time
Never need a reason, ever need a rhyme Flap 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 in 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!
They're at it again, step in time At it again, step in time
They're at it again, step in time
Ow, step in time Ow, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Step in time
Oh, Ellen, when you have a second...
Votes for women, step in time Votes for women, step in time
Oh, no, really, not at the moment.
- Votes for women - Votes for women!
lt'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?
- It's the master, step in time - What's all this? What's all this?
- Kick your knees up, kick your knees up - Bert.
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 a-borning.
He's brought to wrack and ruin in his prime.
Life is a rum go, guv'nor, and that's the truth.
You know what l think? lt's that woman Mary Poppins.
From the moment she stepped into this house, things began to happen to me.
- Mary Poppins? - 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 one fell blow
It's quite a bitter pill
To take
lt's that Poppins woman! She did it!
l 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 bread and water
Into tea and cakes
You see? That's exactly what l mean!
Changing bread and water into tea and cakes, indeed!
No wonder everything's higgledy-piggledy here.
A spoonful of sugar
Goes a long, long way
Have yourself a healthy helpin'
Every day
An 'ealthy helpin' of trouble, if you ask me.
Do you know what she did? l realize it now.
She tricked me into taking Jane and Michael to the bank.
That's how all the trouble started.
Tricked you into taking the children on an outing?
- Yes. - Outrageous!
A man with 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 cryin'
You haven't time to dry their tears
And see them grateful little faces
Smilin' up at you
Because their dad
He always knows just what to do
- Well, l mean, look, l don't think l... - 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 down
Medicine go down
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
The medicine go down The medicine go down...
A spoonful of sugar Makes the medicine go down
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 - Now!
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