Kids Korner - Toot Sweets

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"Toot Sweets" is a song/musical number from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical motion picture. In the film it is sung by Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. "Toot Suites" is also featured prominently in the multi-award winning stage musical of the same name which premiered in London at the Palladium in 2002 and on Broadway in 2005 at the newly refurbished Hilton Theatre. The song title is a play on words, based on the late 19th century French expression "tout de suite", meaning all at once. In the context of the film and stage musical, "Toot Sweets" is about candy cane that has holes in it making the candy possible to be played like a flute. The song was written by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman (also known as the "Sherman Brothers").

Lyrics:

Caractacus:
Don't waste your pucker on some all day sucker
And don't try a toffee or cream
If you seek perfection in sugar confection
Well there's something new on the scene
A mouth full of cheer
A sweet without peer
A musical morsel supreme!
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
The candies you whistle, the whistles you eat.
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
The eatable, tweetable treats!

Truly:
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
The toot of a flute with the flavor of fruit!
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
No longer need candy be mute!

Caractacus:
Don't waste your pucker on some all day sucker

Truly:
and don't try a toffee or cream!
If you seek perfection in sugar confection,

Caractacus:
well, there's something new on the scene:

Truly:
that mouth full of cheer;

Caractacus:
that sweet without peer;

Both:
That musical morsel supreme!
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
A bon-bon to blow on at last has been found
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets,
with tweetable, eatable sound!

Scrumptious:
No--take it away!

Truly:
Father, please! (he takes one)
Toot! Hmm-Hmm. Toot! Laughter from Truly and her father. (He takes a bite)

Caractacus:
He likes it!

Cast:
Hooray!

Caractacus:
Their value is intrinsic,

Truly:
surpass any mint stick

Kids:
Or marshmallow mouthful you munch

Caractacus:
Though licorice is chewy

Truly:
And gum drops are gooey

Kids:
And chocolate is charming to crunch

Caractacus and Truly:
That savory fife,

Women:
that sweet of your life

Kids and factory workers:
It's clearly the best of the bunch.

(Dance break)

All:
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!

Caractacus:
That savory fife

Truly:
That sweet of your life

All:
Is clearly the best of the bunch
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
A bon-bon to blow on at last has been found
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
The treat that's so tweetable,
lusciously eatable,
with that unbeatable--(break) sound!