[ Featuring 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