Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song By the Sea, artist - Stephen Sondheim. Album song Sweeney Todd, in the genre МюзиклыDate of issue: 23.01.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
By the Sea |
| 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) Yes, yes, of course. |
| LOVETT: Do you really want to know? |
| TODD: (spoken) Yes, I do, I do. |
| LOVETT: (spoken) I’ve always had this dream… |
| Ever since I was a skinny little slip of a thing and my rich Aunt |
| Nettie used to take me down to the seaside August Bank Holiday… |
| The pier… Makin’little castles in the sand… |
| Ooh, I can still feel me toes wigglin’around in the briney! |
| By the sea, Mr. Todd, that’s the life I covet, |
| By the sea, Mr. Todd, ooh, 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! |
| Wouldn’t that be smashing? |
| TODD: Anything you say… |
| LOVETT: |
| With the sea at our gate, we’ll have kippered herring |
| Wot have swum to us straight from the Straits of Bering! |
| Ev’ry 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? |
| TODD: Anything you say, anything you say… |
| LOVETT: |
| I can hear us wakin,' |
| The breakers breakin,' |
| The seagulls squawkin,' |
| 'Hoo, hoo!' |
| I do me bakin,' |
| Then I go walkin' |
| 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: Anything you say… |
| LOVETT: |
| Think how snug it’ll 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 ev’ry Friday! |
| By the sea! |
| Don’tcha 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, rich navy, and me… stripes, perhaps. |
| It’ll be so quiet, |
| That who’ll come by it, |
| Except a seagull |
| Hoo, hoo! |
| We shouldn’t try it, |
| Though, 'til 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 payin’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! |