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Song:The Life I Lead
Album:Mary PoppinsGenres:Musical
Year:1963 Length:86 sec

Lyricist: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman

Lyrics:

I feel a surge of deep satisfaction
Much as a king astride his noble steed
When I return from daily strife to hearth and wife

How pleasant is the life I lead!
I run my home precisely on schedule
At 6:01, I march through my door
My slippers, sherry, and pipe are due at 6:02
Consistent is the life I lead!

It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910
King Edward's on the throne, it's the age of men
I'm the lord of my castle, the sov'reign, the liege!
I treat my subjects: servants, children, wife
With a firm but gentle hand
Noblesse oblige!
It's 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion
Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed
And so I'll pat them on the head and send them off to bed
Ah! Lordly is the life I lead!

A British nanny must be a gen'ral!
The future empire lies within her hands
And so the person that we need to mold the breed
Is a nanny who can give commands!

A British bank is run with precision
A British bome required nothing less!
Tradition, discipline, and rule must be the tools
Without them - disorder!
Catastrophe! Anarchy! -
In short, you have a ghastly mess!