A Man Has Dreams

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

A man has dreams of walking with giants

To carve his niche in the edifice of time

(sung)

Before the mortar of his zeal

Has a chance to congeal

(spoken)

The cup is dashed from his lips

The flame is snuffed aborning

He's brought to wrack and ruin 

in his prime

[BERT, spoken]

Life is a rum go, Guv'nor, 

and that's The Truth

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

Do you know what I think? 

It's that woman Mary Poppins! 

From the moment she 

stepped into the house, 

things began to happen to me!

[BERT, spoken]

Mary Poppins?

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

Yes, yes, of course!

(sung)

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

(spoken)

It's that Poppins woman! 

She did it!

[BERT, spoken]

I know the very person you mean. 

Mary Poppins, she's the one wot sings :

(sung)

A spoonful of sugar that is all it takes

It changes bread and water 

into tea and cakes

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

See that's exactly what I mean! 

Changing bread and water into tea and cakes indeed! 

No wonder everything's higgledy-piggledy here!

[BERT]

A spoonful of sugar goes a long, long way

'Ave yourself a 'ealthy 'elpin ev'ry day

(spoken)

An 'ealthy 'elping of Trouble if you ask me!

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

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 trouble started!

[BERT, spoken]

Tricked you into taking 

The Children on an outing?

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

Yes

[BERT, spoken]

"Outrageous!" 

A man with all 

the important things 

you have to do. 

"Shameful!"

You're a man of 'igh position, esteemed by your peers

(sung)

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

[MR. BANKS, spoken]

Well I, look I...I don't think I...

[BERT, spoken]

Like you say, Guv'nor...

(sung)

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, medicine go down

(spoken)

Welp, goodbye Guv'nor. 

Sorry to trouble you

(whistles)