By the Sea (2023 Broadway Cast Recording)

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 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 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, you

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

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?

Anything you say

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, oh!

You, in a nice, rich navy, and me in 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

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 suite 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