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Karen Dotrice & Matthew Garber
Julie Andrews
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Julie Andrews
Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke
David Tomlinson & Julie Andrews
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Dick Van Dyke & David Tomlinson
Dick Van Dyke & Matthew Garber & Karen Dotrice & Julie Andrews
Dick Van Dyke
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David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke & The Londoners
Walt Disney Records & Richard M. Sherman
Sherman Brothers
Walt Disney Records & Richard M. Sherman
Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews
[MR. BANKS]
A British bank is run with precision
A British home requires nothing less!
Tradition, discipline, and rules
Must be the tools
Without them... Disorder! Chaos! Moral disintegration!
In short, you have a ghastly mess!
[MARY, spoken]
I quite agree!
[MR. BANKS]
The children must be molded, shaped, and taught
That life's a looming battle to be faced and fought
[spoken]
In short, I am disturbed to hear my children talking about popping in and out of chalk pavement pictures, consorting with racehorse persons, foxhunting! Yes, well, I don't mind that quite so much. At any rate, it's tradition! But tea parties on the ceiling? I ask you: having tea parties on the ceiling? And highly questionable outings of every other kind!
[sung]
If they must go on outings
These outings ought to be
Fraught with purpose
Yes, and practicality
These silly words like superca... superca.. .superca...
[MARY, spoken]
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
[MR. BANKS, spoken]
Yes, well done, you've said it
[sung]
...And popping through pictures
Have little use, fulfill no basic need!
They've got to learn the honest truth
Despite their youth
They must learn...
[MARY (MR. BANKS, spoken)]
...About the life you lead (Exactly!)
They must feel the thrill of totting up a balanced book
A thousand ciphers neatly in a row
When gazing at a graph that shows the profits up
Their little cup of joy should overflow! (Precisely!)
It's time they learned to walk in your footsteps (My footsteps...)
To tread your straight and narrow path with pride (With pride!)
Tomorrow, just as you suggest
Pressed and dressed
Jane and Michael will be at your side
A British Bank (The Life I Lead) was written by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman.
A British Bank (The Life I Lead) was produced by Jimmy Johnson Jr..
David Tomlinson & Julie Andrews released A British Bank (The Life I Lead) on Thu Aug 27 1964.