By The Sea

[Mrs. Lovett:]
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?

[Todd:]
Yes, of course.

[Mrs. Lovett:]
Do you really want to know?

[Todd:]
Yes, yes, I do, I do.

[Mrs. Lovett:]
I've always had a dream, ever since I was a 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 briny.

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.

[Todd:]
Anything you say.

[Mrs. Lovett:]
Wouldn't that be smashing
With the sea at our gate, we'll have kippered herring
Wot have swum to us straight from the straits of Bering
Every 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
Down by the sea...

[Todd:]
Anything you say
Anything you say.

[Mrs. Lovett:]
I can see us waking, the breakers breaking
The seagulls squawking: Hoo-hoo!
I do me baking, then I 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 got better to do-hoo.

[Todd:]
Anything you say.

[Mrs. 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 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!

[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, till it's legal for two-hoo
But a seaside wedding could be devised
Me rumpled bedding legitimized
Me eyelids'll flutter, I'll turn in butter
The moment I mutter, "I do-hoo!"

By the sea in our nest, we could share our kippers
With the off paying 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!

[Spoken]
Come on, dear. Give us a kiss. Ooh, that was lovely.