[ANNABEL]

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!