| A man has dreams of walking with giants
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| To carve his niche in the edifice of time
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| Before the mortar of his zeal
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| Has a chance to congeal
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| The cup is dashed from his lips
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| The flame is snuffed aborning
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| He’s brought to wreck and ruin in his prime
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| Life is a rum go, Guv’nor, and that’s the truth.
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| Do you know what I think? |
| It’s Mary Poppins! |
| From the moment she stepped into
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| the house, things began to happen to me!
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| Mary Poppins?
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| Yes, yes, of course!
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| My world was calm, well-ordered, exemplary
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| Then came this person, with chaos in her wake
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| And now my life’s ambitions go with one fell blow
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| It’s quite a bitter pill to take
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| It’s that Poppins woman! |
| She did it!
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| I know the very person you mean. |
| Mary Poppins, she’s the one wot sings…
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| A spoonful of sugar that is all it takes
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| It changes bread and water into tea and cakes
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| A spoonful of sugar goes a long, long way
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| 'Ave yourself a 'ealthy 'elpin ev’ry day
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| An 'ealthy 'elping of trouble if you ask me!
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| You know what she did? |
| I realize it now! |
| She tricked me into taking Jane and
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| Michael to the bank. |
| That’s how all the trouble started!
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| Tricked you into taking the children on an outing?
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| Yes.
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| «Outrageous!"A man with all the important things you have to do. «Shameful!»
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| You’re a man of 'igh position, esteemed by your peers
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| And when your little tykes are cryin', you 'aven't time to dry their tears
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| And see them grateful little faces smilin' up at you
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| Because their dad, 'e always knows just what to do Well I, look I… I don’t think I…
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| Like you say, Guv’nor…
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| You’ve got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone
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| Though child’ood slips like sand through a sieve
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| And all too soon they’ve up and grown
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| And then they’ve flown
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| And it’s too late for you to give
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| Just that spoonful of sugar to 'elp the medicine go down
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| The medicine go down, medicine go down
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| Just a spoonful of sugar 'elps the medicine go down
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| In a most delightful way… |