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?

Yes, of course

Do you really want to know?

Yes, yes, I do, I do

Always had a dream
Ever since I was skinny little slip of a thing
And my rich Aunt Nettie used to take me to the seaside
August bank holiday
The pier...
Making little castles in the sand
I can still feel me toes wiggling around in the briney

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 have swum to us straight from the Straights of Bering
Everynight in the kip, 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
Oh-ooh
I'll do me baking, then I'll go walking
With you, you
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

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

Don't you love the weather?
By the sea
We'll grow old together
By the seaside
By the beautiful sea

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, oh-ooh
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
By the beautiful sea

Come on, darling
Give us a kiss
Ooh, that was lovely