By the Sea - Stephen Sondheim

Written by：Stephen Sondheim

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

Of course

Do you really want to know

Yes yes I do I do

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 was come to us straight from the straights of bering

Everynight in the kick 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

Hoo hoo

I'll do me baking then I'll go walking

With you hoo you 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

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 hoo hoo

By the beautiful sea

Oh I can see us now

In our bathing dresses

You in a nice navy

And me stripes perhaps

It'll be so quiet

That who'll come by it

Except a seagull oh oh

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 hoo hoo

By the beautiful sea