Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be.
Chim chiminey chim chiminey, chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes ‘ands with you,
Or blow me a kiss and that’s lucky too.
Now as the ladder of life ‘as been strung
You may think a sweep’s on the bottom most rung.
Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke
In this ‘ole wide world there’s no ‘appier bloke.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be.
Chim chiminey chim chiminey, chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes ‘ands with you.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be.
Chim chiminey chim chiminey, chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes ‘ands with you.
I choose me bristles with pride, yes I do.
A broom for the shaft and a brush for the flue.
Up where the smoke is all billowed and curled
‘Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world.
When there’s ‘ardly no day nor ‘hardly no night
There’s things ‘alf in shadow and ‘alf way in light.
On the roof tops of London, coo, what a sight.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee!
When you’re with a sweep you’re in glad company.
No where is there a more ‘appier crew
Than them wot sings “chim chim cher-ee, chim cher-oo!”
Chim chiminey chim chim cher-ee chim cher-oo!
1963 – Robert and Richard Sherman – From the motion picture “Mary Poppins”
Performed by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews – Album: Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins