We're clearly soldiers in petticoats
And dauntless crusaders for women's votes
Though we adore men individually
We agree that as a group they're rather stupid
Cast off the shackles of yesterday
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus

Well done, Sister Suffragette

From Kensington to Billingsgate one hears the restless cries
From every corner of the land womankind arise
Political equality
And equal rights with men
Take heart, for Mrs. Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again

No more the meek and mild subservient we
We're fighting for our rights militantly
Never you fear

So cast off the shackles of yesterday
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus
Well done
Well done
Well done, Sister Suffragette

I feel a surge of deep satisfaction
Much as a king astride his noble steed
When I return from daily strife to hearth and wife
How pleasant is the life I lead

I run my home precisely on schedule
At 6:01, I march through my door
My slippers, sherry and pipe are due at 6:02
Consistent is the life I lead
It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910
King Edward's on the throne
It's the Age of Men
I'm the lord of my castle
The sovereign, the liege
I treat my subjects, servants, children, wife
With a firm but gentle hand
Noblesse oblige

It's 6:03, and the heirs to my dominion
Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed
And so I'll pat them on the head and send them off to bed
Ah, lordly is the life I lead

A British nanny must be a general
The future empire lies within her hands
And so the person that we need to mold the breed
Is a nanny who can give commands

A British bank is run with precision
A British home requires nothing less
Tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools
Without them: disorder, catastrophe, anarchy
In short, you have a ghastly mess

If you want this choice position
Have a cheery disposition
Rosy cheeks, no warts
Play games, all sorts

You must be kind
You must be witty
Very sweet
And fairly pretty
Take us on outings
Give us treats
Sing songs, bring sweets

Never be cross or cruel
Never gives us castor oil or gruel
Love us as a son and daughter
And never smell of barley water
If you won't scold and dominate us
We will never give you cause to hate us
We won't hide your spectacles so you can't see
Put toads in your bed or pepper in your tea
Hurry, Nanny
Many thanks, sincerely
Jane and Michael Banks

Ain't it a glorious day
Right as a mornin' in May
I feel like I could fly
Have you ever seen the grass so green?
Or a bluer sky

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary
Mary makes your heart so light
When the day is gray and ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright
Oh, happiness is bloomin' all around her
The daffodils are smilin' at the dove
When Mary holds your hand, you feel so grand
Your heart starts beatin' like a big brass band

It's a jolly holiday with Mary
No wonder that it's Mary that we love

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary
Mary makes your heart so light
When the day is gray and ordinary
Mary makes the sun shine bright
Oh, happiness is bloomin' all around her
The daffodils are smilin' at the dove
When Mary holds your hand, you feel so grand
Your heart starts beatin' like a big brass band

It's a jolly holiday with Mary
No wonder that it's Mary that we love

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with you, Bert
Gentlemen like you are few
Though you're just a diamond in the rough, Bert
Underneath, your blood is blue
You'd never think of pressing your advantage

Forbearance if the hallmark of your creed
A lady needn't fear when you are near
Your sweet gentility is crystal clear
Oh, it's a jolly holiday with you, Bert
A jolly, jolly holiday with you

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad
Me father gave me nose a tweak
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me aching nose
The biggest word you ever heard
And this is how it goes:

Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
He traveled all around the world
And everywhere he went
He'd use his word and all would say:
"There goes a clever gent"
When dukes and maharajahs passed the time of day with me
I'd say me special word
And then they'd ask me out to tea!

Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word
And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully
Or it could change your life
One night I said it to me girl
And now me girl's me wife!

She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Stay awake
Don't rest your head
Don't lie down
Upon your bed
While the moon drifts in the skies

Stay awake
Don't close your eyes

Though the world is fast asleep
Though your pillow's soft and deep
You're not sleepy as you seem
Stay awake
Don't nod and dream
Stay awake
Don't nod and dream

I love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
I love to laugh
It's getting worse every year
The more I laugh
The more I fill with glee
The more the glee
The more I'm a merrier me
The more I'm a merrier me

Some people laugh through their noses
Sounding something like this (giggles)
Some people laugh through their teeth, goodness sake
Hissing and fizzing like snakes
Some laugh too fast
Some only blast
Others they twitter like birds
Then there's the kind what can't make up their mind

When things strike me as funny
I can't hide it inside and squeak
As the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho-ho-ho-ho
And a ha-ha-ha too

We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So everybody can hear
The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
The more the glee
The more we're a merrier we

A British bank is run with precision
The British home requires nothing less
Tradition, discipline and rules must be the tools
With out them disorder, chaos, moral disintegration
In short you have a ghastly mess

The children must be molded, shaped and taught
That life's a looming battle to be faced and fought
If they must go on outings those outings ought to be
Fraught with purpose, yes, and practicality
These silly words like supercalli... supercalli...
Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious
Yes, well done, you said it
And popping through pictures
Have little use, fulfill no basic need
They must face the honest truth
Despite their youth they must
... learn about the life you lead

They must feel the thrill of toting up a balanced book
A thousand ciphers neatly in a row
When gazing at a graph that shows the profits up
Their little cups of joy should overflow

It's time they learned to walk in your footsteps
To tread your straight and narrow path with pride
Tomorrow just as you suggest
Pressed and dressed
Jane and Michael will be at your side

Early each day to the steps of St. Paul's
The little old bird woman comes
In her own special way to the people she calls
And the king will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.'

Come, buy my bags full of crumbs

Come feed the little birds, show them you care
And you'll be glad if you do
Their young ones are hungry
Their nests are so bare
All it takes is tuppence from you

Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
Feed the birds, that's what she cries
While overhead, her birds fill the skies

All around the cathedral the saints and apostles
Look down as she sells her wares
Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares

Though her words are simple and few
Listen, listen, she's calling to you
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag

If you invest your tuppence
Wisely in the bank
Safe and sound
Soon that tuppence safely invested in the bank
Will compound
And you'll achieve that sense of conquest
As your affluence expands
In the hands
Of the directors
Who invest as propriety demands

You see, Michael, you'll be part of...
Railways through Africa
Dams across the Nile
Fleets of ocean greyhounds
Majestic self-amortizing canals
Plantations of ripening tea

All from
Tuppence prudently, thriftily, frugally
Invested in the...
To be specific
In the Dawes, Tomes, Mousley, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank

When you deposit tuppence in a bank account
Soon you'll see
That it blooms into credit of a generous amount
Semiannually

And you'll achieve that sense of stature
As your influence expands
To the high financial strata
That established credit now commands

You can purchase first and second trust deeds
Think of the foreclosures!
Bonds, chattels, dividends, shares
Bankruptcies
Debtor sales
Opportunities
All manner of private enterprise
Shipyards
The mercantile
Collieries
Tanneries
Corporations
Amalgamations
Banks!

You see, Michael? All for the lack of...
Tuppence
Patiently, cautiously, trustingly invested in the...
To be specific
In the Dawes, Tomes, Mousley, Grubbs
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when
I shakes hands with you
Or blow me a kiss
And that's lucky too

Now as the ladder of life
Hs been strung
You might think a sweep's
On the bottommost rung

Though I spends me time
In the ashes and smoke
In this whole wide world
There's no happier bloke

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes hands with you

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes hands with you

I choose me bristles with pride, yes, I do
A broom for the shaft and a brush for the flue

Up where the smoke is
All billowed and curled
'Tween pavement and stars
Is the chimney-sweep world

When there's hardly no day
Nor hardly no night
There's things half in shadow
And half way in light
On the rooftops of London
Coo, what a sight

Chim chiminy
Chim chiminy
Chim chim cher-ee!
When you're with a sweep
You're in glad company

Nowhere is there
A more happier crew
Than them what sings
Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!
Chim chim chiminy
Chim chim
Cher-ee chim cher-oo!

Step in time, step in time
Come on, mateys, step in time
Step in time
Step in time, step in time
Step in time, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
We step in time, we step in time

Kick your knees up!
Kick your knees up, step in time
Kick your knees up, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Kick your knees up, step in time

Round the chimney!
Round the chimney, step in time
Round the chimney, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Round the chimney, step in time

Flap like a birdie!
Flap like a birdie, step in time
Flap like a birdie, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Flap like a birdie, in time

Up on the railing!
Up on the railing, step in time
Up on the railing, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Up on the railing, step in time

Over the rooftops!
Over the rooftops, step in time
Over the rooftops, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Over the rooftops, step in time
Over the rooftop, over the rooftop!

Link your elbows!
Link your elbows, step in time
Link your elbows, step in time
Link your elbows, link your elbows
Link your elbows!

Step in time, step in time
Step in time, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
You step in time, you step in time

Play the Mary Poppins Quiz
A Man Has Dreams Video:


Lyrics to A Man Has Dreams
A man has dreams of walking with giants
To carve his name in the edifice of time
Before the mortar of his zeal has a chance to congeal
The cup is dashed from his lips
The flame is snuffed aborning
He's brought to rack and ruin in his prime

My world was calm, well ordered, exemplary
Then came this person with chaos in her wake
And now my life's ambitions go with one fell blow
It's quite a bitter pill to take

It's that Poppins woman
She did it!
She tricked me into taking Jane and Michael to the bank
That's how all the trouble started

Tricked you into taking the children on an outing?
Outrageous!
A man with all the important things you have to do
Shameful!

You're a man of high position
Esteemed by your peers
And when your little tykes are crying
You haven't time to dry their tears
And see their grateful little faces
Smiling up at you
Because their dad, he always knows
Just what to do
You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone
Though childhood slips like sand through a seive
And all too soon they've up and grown
And then they've flown
And it's too late for you to give
Just that spoonful of sugar
To help the medicine go down
The medicine go down, the medicine go down
Just that spoonful of sugar
To help the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite
Let's go fly a kite!