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 the 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 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 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've got better to do-hoo (Anything you say)

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 (Anything you say)
Don't you love the weather?
By the sea, we'll grow old together
By the seaside, hoo, hoo
By the beautiful sea

Ooh! 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, until it's legal for two-hoo

But a seaside wedding could be devised
Me rumpled bedding legitimised
Me eyelids'll flutter, I'll turn into butter
The moment I mutter I do-hoo

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