Track 2: Ruth

By The Sea from Sweeney Todd

Oh, 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, ooh, 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 fishes 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

Oh, I can see us now in our bathing dresses

You in a nice navy, and me stripes perhaps

It'll be so quiet, that who'll come by it

Except a seagull, hoo, hoo

We shouldn't try it

Though 'til it's legal for two-hoo

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-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

I chose this song for Ruth's second song because Ruth originally thought Mama should spend the money on a vacation. And My first thought, when it comes to vacation, is the beach. Then when Mama mentions buying a house as a possibility, Ruth gets all excited. This song is actually a daydream about moving and starting a new life at the beach with someone that the singer loves. I like to imagine this is a lot like what Ruth would imagine when she daydreamed about the perfect home.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tee6Eff34