By The Sea

(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)

Of course

(MRS. LOVETT)

Do you really want to know?

(TODD)

Yes, yes, I do, I do

(MRS. LOVETT)

Well... 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 to the seaside August Bank Holiday...

The pier... Makin' castles in the sand...

I can still feel me toes wigglin' around in the briney!

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 what 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!

Ev'rynight in the kick, when we're through our kippers

I'll be there slipping 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 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

(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 ev'ry 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

Oh, I can see us now

In our bathing costumes

You in a nice rich navy

And me... in stripes perhaps

It'll be so quiet

That who'll come by it

Except a seagull?

Hoo-hoo!

We shouldn't try it

Until it's legal for two

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!"

By the sea, in our nest

We could share our kippers

With the odd-paying guests from the weekend trippers

Have a nice, sunny sweet for the guests 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