By the Sea - Stephen Sondheim.mp3

[00:02.51]Ooh, Mr. Todd!
[00:03.57]I'm so happy!
[00:04.86]I could
[00:05.97]Eat you up, I really could!
[00:07.40]You know what I'd like to do, Mr. Todd? What I dream
[00:10.77]If the business stays as good?
[00:12.75]Where I'd really like to go,
[00:15.60]In a year or so?
[00:18.61]Don't you want to know?
[00:20.76]TODD: Yes, yes, of course.
[00:22.58]LOVETT: Do you really want to know?
[00:24.05]TODD: Yes, I do, I do.
[00:26.70]LOVETT: I've always had this dream...
[00:27.83]Ever since I was a skinny little slip of a thing
[00:29.62]and my rich Aunt Nettie used to take me down to the seaside on August Bank Holiday...
[00:33.33]The pier... Makin' little castles in the sand...
[00:39.48]Ooh, I can still feel me toes wigglin' around in the briney!
[00:42.94]By the sea, Mr. Todd, that's the life I covet,
[00:45.80]By the sea, Mr. Todd, ooh, I know you'd love it!
[00:49.17]You and me, Mr. T, we could be alone
[00:52.22]In a house wot we'd almost own,
[00:55.41]Down by the sea!
[00:57.25]TODD: Anything you say...
[00:58.68]Wouldn't that be smashing?
[01:01.53]With the sea at our gate, we'll have kippered herring
[01:05.56]Wot have swum to us straight from the Straits of Bering!
[01:08.71]Ev'ry night, in the kip, when we're through our kippers,
[01:11.77]I'll be there slippin' off your slippers!
[01:14.36]By the sea,
[01:17.21]With the fishies splashing!
[01:20.92]By the sea!
[01:23.93]Wouldn't that be smashing?
[01:27.34]Down by the sea,
[01:29.31]TODD: Anything you say, anything you say...
[01:34.50]I can see us wakin,' the breakers breakin,'
[01:37.57]The seagulls squawkin,'
[01:39.30]
[01:40.83]I do me bakin,' then I go walkin' with you-hoo!
[01:45.72]
[01:47.10]I'll warm me bones on the esplanade,
[01:50.16]Have tea and scones with me gay young blade,
[01:53.31]Then I'll knit a sweater while you write a letter
[01:56.38]Unless we've got better to do-hoo!
[01:59.98]TODD: Anything you say...
[02:03.03]Think how snug it'll be underneath our flannel
[02:05.88]When it's just you and me and the English Channel!
[02:09.14]In our cozy retreat kept all neat and tidy,
[02:12.35]We'll have chums over ev'ry Friday!
[02:15.30]By the sea!
[02:17.80]Don'tcha love the weather?
[02:21.25]By the sea!
[02:24.27]We'll grow old together!
[02:28.04]By the seaside,
[02:30.17]Hoo, hoo! By the beautiful sea!
[02:35.69]Oh, I can see us now, in our bathing dresses!
[02:38.29]You in a nice, rich navy, and me... stripes, perhaps.
[02:44.50]It'll be so quiet,
[02:46.18]That who'll come by it,
[02:47.81]Except a seagull
[02:49.49]
[02:50.97]We shouldn't try it,
[02:52.49]Though, 'til it's legal for two-hoo!
[02:55.69]But a seaside wedding could be devised,
[03:00.43]Me rumpled bedding legitimized!
[03:03.74]Me eyelids'll flutter,
[03:05.01]I'll turn into butter,
[03:07.09]The moment I mutter I do-hoo!
[03:13.21]By the sea, in our nest, we could share our kippers
[03:16.22]With the odd payin' guest from the weekend trippers,
[03:19.43]Have a nice sunny suite for the guest to rest in,
[03:22.84]Now and then, you could do the guest in!
[03:25.23]By the sea,
[03:27.88]Married nice and proper!
[03:31.44]By the sea,
[03:34.54]Bring along your chopper!
[03:37.86]To the seaside,
[03:40.20]Hoo, hoo! By the beautiful sea!
[03:46.02]Come on dear, give us a kiss,
[03:51.37]Oh, that was lovely.