YOU AND ME
From the London Pantomime "Cinderella" (1957)
(Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II)
Starring Tommy Steele, Jimmy Edwards, Yana, Bruce Trent, Kenneth
Williams, Betty Marsden & Robin Palmer.

Rodgers & Hammerstein originally wrote the 1957 musical "Cinderella"
as a television show for U.S. audiences. In London, augmented with
songs from their 1953 Broadway musical "Me And Juliet", it was
transformed into a West End stage show / pantomime featuring Tommy
Steele in his first stage role.


Tommy Steele (as Buttons) & Jimmy Edwards (as the King)



JIMMY: You must be Buttons, my boy.
TOMMY: That's right, Your Majesty.
JIMMY: Well, you don't want to be upset because my son, Prince
Charming, is going to marry Cinderella. I believe you were very fond
of Cinderella, weren't you?
TOMMY: Oh yes.
JIMMY: Well, it's nothing that you can't get over. It'll pass. All
you got to do is to go out and get yourself another job.
TOMMY: What sort of a job?
JIMMY: Well, you could take up farming.
TOMMY: I'd rather be Prince Charming
JIMMY: You could be an envoy.
TOMMY: I'm not that sort of boy.
JIMMY: You could be a Jester like Charlie Chester.
TOMMY: And if trouble should provoke, I'll be just the sort of bloke
that could always tell a joke. A funny thing happened to me on the
way to the Palace this evening....
JIMMY: Someone I could choke!
TOMMY: But oh, what a friend you'll have in me.
JIMMY: Yes, you'd make a party blend, you'd be always there to lend.
TOMMY: You mean that I could be your friend.
JIMMY: Yes, you could be my blasted friend.
TOMMY: Oh, what a friend you'll have in me.
JIMMY: Ah, but that I shall have to wait and see. And if bad tidings
cling, even though I am the King, I can always try and sing .........
BU-U-U-TER-FIN-GERS!
TOMMY: Oh, what happiness you'll bring.
JIMMY: It's just the very thing.

BOTH:
You and me, can we be partners
You and me, can we be friends
We'll be a great association
One that never ends

Pleasin' you's the job I'm given
Pleasin' you makes life worth livin'
When we're wrong we'll be forgiven
As we go along, together we belong

JIMMY:
You be the ham and I'll be the eggs
TOMMY:
I'll be the coffee and you be the dregs
JIMMY:
You be the arms and I'll be the legs
BOTH:
Of the greatest guy on earth

TOMMY: There we go, Jim

BOTH:
You and us, can we be buddies
You and us, can we be friends
All the kids and mums and daddies
That's where friendship blends

JIMMY:
When you go, be nice and happy
TOMMY:
Love your "Mammy" and your "Pappy"
JIMMY:
Be a really cheerful chappie
TOMMY:
Be like me and the King

JIMMY: Rise, Baron Buttons of Bermondsey.

BOTH:
Yes, it's the proper thing
Yes, it's the proper thing


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2006)