A British Bank
Music and lyrics
by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by David Tomlinson
and Julie Andrews
Mr. Banks
A British bank is run with precision
A British home requires
nothing less!
Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools
Without
them - disorder! Chaos!
Moral disintegration!
In short, you have a ghastly
mess!
I quite agree.
The children
must be molded, shaped and taught
That life's a looming battle to be faced
and fought
In short, I am disturbed to hear my children talking about popping in and out of chalk pavement
pictures, consorting with racehorse persons, fox hunting.
Yes, well, I don't mind that quite so
much. At any rate, it's tradition.
But tea parties on the ceiling? I ask you.
Having tea parties on
the ceiling and highly-questionable outings of every other kind!
If they must go on outings
These outings ought to
be
Fraught with purpose, yes and practicality!
These silly words like
Superca... superca... superca...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Yes,
well done, you said it.
And popping through pictures
Have little use,
fulfill no basic need!
They've got to learn the honest truth
Despite their
youth
They must learn...
Mary Poppins
About the life you
lead! (Exactly)
They must feel the
thrill of totting up a balanced book
A thousand ciphers neatly in a
row
When gazing at a graph that shows the profits up
Their little cup of
joy should overflow! (Precisely)
It's
time they learned to walk in your footsteps (My footsteps)
To tread your straight and narrow path with
pride (With pride)
Tomorrow, just as
you suggest pressed and dressed
Jane and Michael will be at your side