By the Sea

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."

Do you really want to know?

Todd: "Yes, yes, I do, I do."

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 (Anything you say)

Wouldn't that be smashing?

With the sea at our gate we'll have kippered herring

What was come to us straight from the Straits of Bering

Every night 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 (Anything you say, anything you say)

I can see us waking

The breakers breaking

The seagulls squawking

Hoo-hoo

I'll do me baking

Then I'll go walking

With you-hoo you-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

(Anything you say)

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 (Anything you say)

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 dresses"

"You in a nice navy"

"And me... stripes perhaps"

It'll be so quiet

That who'll come by it

Except a seagull? Oh-oh

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