A Man Has Dreams
Music and
lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robetrt B. Sherman
Performed by David Tomlinson
and Dick Van Dyke
Mr. Banks
A man has dreams of walking with giants
To
carve his niche 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
Life
is a rum go, guv'nor, and that's the truth.
You know what
I think? It's that woman Mary Poppins. From the moment she stepped
into this house, things began to happen to me.
Mary Poppins?
Yes,
of course.
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!
I
know the very person you mean. Mary Poppins. She's the one what
sings
Bert
A spoonful of sugar that is all it takes
It changes bread and
water into tea and cakes
That's exactly what
I mean! Changing bread and water into tea and cakes! Indeed!
No
wonder everything's higgledy-piggledy here.
A spoonful of sugar goes a long, long
way
'Ave yourself a 'ealthy 'elpin' ev'ry day
An
'ealthy 'elpin' of trouble, if you ask me.
Do you know what
she did? I realize it now. She tricked me into taking Jane and
Michael to the bank. That's how all the troubles started.
Tricked
you into taking the children on an outing?
Yes.
Outrageous!
A man with all the important things you have to do. Shameful!
You're a man of 'igh
position
Esteemed by your peers
And when your little tykes are
cryin'
You 'aven't time to dry their tears
And see them grateful little
faces smilin' up at you
Because their dad, 'e always knows just what to
do
Like you say, guv'nor
You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone
Though
child'ood slips like sand through a sieve
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 'elp the medicine go down
The medicine go down,
the medicine go down
Well, goodbye, guv'nor.
Sorry to have troubled you.