Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Cast Recording)
1979
[MRS. LOVETT] Ooh, Mr. Todd I'm so happy I could eat you up, I really could! You know what I'd like to do, Mr. Todd? What I dream? If the business stays as good Where I'd really like to go? In a year or so... Don't you want to know? [TODD, spoken] Of course. [MRS. LOVETT] Do you really want to know? [TODD, spoken] Yes, yes, I do, I do. [MRS. LOVETT] By the sea, Mr. Todd That's a life I covet By the sea, Mr. Todd Oh, I know you'd love it! You and me, Mr. T. We could be Alone In a house wot we'd almost own Down by the sea... [TODD] Anything you say... [MRS. LOVETT] Wouldn't that be smashing? With the sea at our gate We'll have kippered herring Wot have swum to us straight From the Straits of Bering Every night in the kip When we're through our kippers I'll be there slippin' off your slippers By the sea... With the fishies splashing By the sea... Wouldn't that be smashing? Down by the sea... [TODD] Anything you say Anything you say [MRS. LOVETT] I can see us waking The breakers breaking The seagulls squawking Hoo! Hoo! I'll do me baking Then I go walking With you—hoo... Yoo-hoo... I'll warm me bones On the esplanade Have tea and scones With me gay young blade Then I'll knit a sweater While you write a letter Unless we've got better To do—hoo... [TODD, spoken] Anything you say... [MRS. LOVETT] Think how snug it will be Underneath our flannel When it's just you and me And the English channel In our cozy retreat Kept all neat and tidy We'll have chums over every Friday By the sea... [TODD] Anything you say... [MRS. LOVETT] Don't you love the weather? By the sea We'll grow old together By the seaside Hoo! Hoo! By the beautiful sea (spoken) Oh, I can see us now—in our bathing dresses—you in a nice navy—and me, stripes perhaps. (sung) It'll be so quiet That who'll come by it Except a seagull? Hoo! Hoo! We shouldn't try it Though, till it's legal For two—hoo! But a seaside wedding Could be devised Me rumpled bedding Legitimized Me eyelids'll flutter I'll turn into butter The moment I mutter "I do—hoo!" By the sea, in our nest We could share our kippers With the odd-paying guest From the weekend trippers Have a nice, sunny suite For the guest to rest in— Now and then, you could do the guest in— By the sea Married nice and proper By the sea— Bring along your chopper To the seaside Hoo! Hoo! By the beautiful sea!
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