The Life I Lead-David Tomlinson

[00:01.58]The Life I Lead -Mary Poppins [00:08.520]I feel a surge of deep satisfaction [00:12.302]Much as a king astride his noble steed [00:16.432]When I return from daily strife to heart and wife [00:20.853]How pleasant is the life I lead [00:23.631]Dear it's about the children [00:24.945]Yes yes yes [00:25.937]I run my home precisely on schedule [00:30.00]At 6:01I march through my door [00:33.956]My slippers sherry and pipe are due at 6:02 [00:38.22]Consistent is the life I lead [00:43.922]It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910 [00:47.713]King Edward's on the throne; [00:49.727]It's the age of men [00:51.366]I'm the lord of my castle [00:53.330]The sov'reign the liege [00:55.381]I treat my subjects:servants children wife [00:58.892]With a firm but gentle hand [01:00.335]Noblesse oblige [01:01.156]It's 6:03and the heirs to my dominion [01:05.310]Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed [01:08.517]And so I'll pat them on the head [01:11.493]And send them off to bed [01:13.244]Ah Lordly is the life I lead [01:22.100]A British nanny must be a gen'ral [01:25.846]The future empire lies within her hands [01:29.623]And so the person that we need to mold the breed [01:33.836]Is a nanny who can give commands [01:39.228]A British bank is run with precision [01:42.876]A British home requires nothing less [01:46.728]Tradition discipline and rules must be the tools [01:51.348]Without them -disorder [01:53.754]Catastrophe Anarchy - [01:56.118]In short we have a ghastly mess