MRS. LOVETT
(she kisses Todd)
Ooh, Mr. Todd! (kiss)
I'm so happy!
(kiss)
I could (kiss)
Eat you up, I really could!
You know what I'd
like to do, Mr. Todd? (kiss)
What I dream (kiss)
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
(spoken) Yes, yes, of course.
LOVETT
Do you really
want to know?
TODD
(spoken) Yes, I do, I do.
LOVETT
(spoken)
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 down to the seaside August Bank
Holiday...
The pier... Makin' little castles in the sand...
Ooh, I can
still feel me toes wigglin' around in the briney!
By the sea, Mr. Todd,
that's the life I covet,
By the sea, Mr. Todd, ooh, I know you'd love
it!
You and me, Mr. T, we could be alone
In a house wot we'd almost
own,
Down by the sea!
Wouldn't that be smashing?
TODD
Anything you
say...
LOVETT
With the sea at our gate, we'll have kippered
herring
Wot have swum to us straight from the Straits of Bering!
Ev'ry
night, in the kip, when we're through our kippers,
I'll be there slippin' off
your slippers!
By the sea,
With the fishies splashing!
By the
sea!
Wouldn't that be smashing?
TODD
Anything you say, anything you
say...
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...
LOVETT
Think how snug it'll
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!
Don'tcha love the weather?
By the
sea!
We'll grow old together!
By the seaside,
Hoo, hoo!
By the
beautiful sea!
(spoken)
Oh, I can see us now, in our bathing dresses!
You in a nice, rich navy, and me... stripes, perhaps.
It'll be so
quiet,
That who'll come by it,
Except a seagull
Hoo, hoo!
We
shouldn't try it,
Though, 'til it's legal for two-hoo!
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-hoo!
By
the sea, in our nest, we could share our kippers
With the odd payin' guest
from the weekend trippers,
Have a nice sunny suite for the guest 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!
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