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Turning turtle What exactly does that mean

TOPSY
It means my whole world goes flippity-flop like a turtle on its back. And I don't know my up from my down, my east from my west, my topsy from my bottomsy

If you ring with something broken on a Thursday
I'll make new, with my glue, pins and thread
What you bring -- when I've awoken -- on a Friday
I will mend and then spend the day in bed
Children, Satur, Sun and Mondays are just everything is fun days
But in the second week, I wear a frown
For, I know that after Tuesday comes the Topsy get's bad news day
It's the dreaded second Wednesday
When from 9 to noon, my life turns upside down

Fast is slow, low is high, stop is go and that is why
Every second Wednesday is a hurdle
From 8 to 9, all is well
Then I roll over on my shell
And all because the world is turning turtle

Day is night, dog is cat, black is white, thin is fat
That is why I'm loosening up my girdle
I cannot help this charming troop
Don't mock me, 'cause I'm in the soup
And why Because the world is turning turtle

Oh, woe is me, I'm as opposite as I can be
I long for Thursdays when the world is drab
When will it cease Now my life resembles War and Peace
That Tolstoy certainly had the gift of gab, I couldn't get through it

Bottom's top, yin is yang, peace and quiet's Sturm und Drang
Tuesday nights, my blood begins to curdle
East is west, in is out, and that is why I need to shout
Oh no The world is turning turtle

Oh, if you had come some other morn'
You wouldn't have found me so forlorn
But, since the day that I was born
Second Wednesdays is on the fritz
I couldn't mend this to save my soul
If this keeps up, I'll dig a hole
You say life's a cherry bowl
But Wednesday's full of pits

JACK
Tell us, can you fix this drum

TOPSY
Well, today it's looking glum

JOHN
Can you mend this crack

ANNABEL
And broken string

TOPSY
Perhaps, if you all lend a hand

JACK and CHILDREN
Our fingers are at your command

MARY POPPINS
A broken songbird still can sing

TOPSY
Let's do the turtle swing

instrumental

TOPSY
Oh, woe is me
Now I'm on my head
How can that be

MARY POPPINS
Well you say woe, but I say lucky you

TOPSY
Lucky me

MARY POPPINS
Yes. Here on your head, A is far behind and led by Zed
It's good to get a different point of view

You see, when the world turns upside down, the best thing is turn right along with it

TOPSY
I do see From down here, things look right side up, hahaha

JACK
I wouldn't mind seeing things from that angle

JOHN
Sounds like fun

ANNABEL
Can we

MARY POPPINS
Very well. Flippity flop

ANNABEL
Near is

JOHN
Far is

JACK
Here is

GEORGIE
There

MARY POPPINS
Turtles turning everywhere

TOPSY
Things are getting clear

MARY POPPINS
Well, knock on wood, my dear
When you change the view from where you stood
The things you view will change for good

TOPSY
I never thought of things that way

MARY POPPINS
She never thought of things that way

TOPSY
Now Wednesdays are my favorite day

JACK and CHILDREN
Now Wednesdays are her favorite day

TOPSY
'Cause that's the day I'm quite contrary
And now, thanks to cousin Mary
I have changed- to be exact
I love the fact

ALL
The world is turning turtle, turtle, turtle