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  • Love this movie=) Used to watch this movie all the time.

  • I always thought that Mary poppins was the bird women in disguised to test the kids to see what they would do <3

  • love this song so much wish i was able to sing the way julie did<3 she is my favourite ever

  • Even as a young girl Ide fall asleep and sometimes cry through this song. So amazing I wish I could meet julie andrews.

  • As I read your post, this song came into my head. It was my oldest child's favorite movei at age 3. She'd play 'Bert' and I'd be Mary Poppins dancing in sidewalk drawings. I'll have to sing this when I spread the bird seed tomorrow moring (it will be pretty cold to easily find food)

  • Is it true that Mary Poppins was at first going to be a horror movie called Scary Mary Poppins?

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    She looks to be a homeless woman, or at least very poor. By feeding the birds those who buy the crumbs are providing life sustaining food for the woman, perhaps even shelter, as well as for the birds. It's also an honest trade.

  • @ jackwormwood

    I agree that putting the money in the bank Is the wisest choice for the childrens future. But I think you are missing the point of the song. By buying a bag of crumbs to feed the birds, not only are the kids helping the birds to live, but also the old bird woman.

  • "Though her words are simple and few....

    Listen, listen she's calling to you....."

  • HAS ANYBUDDY ELSE NOTICED ALL THE NASTY SNUFF VIDEOS OF PEOPLE KILLING & SHOOTING BIRDS???!!! :( REPORT THEM!!!

  • I'm in my late 20s, and I still can't hear this song without getting a little teary-eyed.

  • I wish this song would never end

  • I will be singing this song on my channel soon. Absolutely gorgeous.

  • A little old bird woman may face jail time for feeding the birds in Massachusetts. What a sad and pathetic world we now live in...

  • @tablerunner202004 All the more reason for those of us who longingly remember better times to pass down what we have had the privilege to experience. Personally, I don't plan on my children growing up without treasures like Mary Poppins. It doesn't get any better than this. I'm proud to be part of a generation that still respects these old favorites. :)

  • I heard that this song was one of Walt Disney's personal favourites, and that it was played at his funeral. Beautiful song.

  • @musicbrain5 I actually cried when I read your comment. I already loved Walt Disney, but he just reached a new level of my admiration. What a precious precious man. That was just who he was... :)

  • so lovely!!

  • Feed the Birds is one of my favourite songs from Mary Poppins

  • This song is so emotional. I am singing it for an audition in "Once Upon A Mattress"

  • Fiddlesticks! Feed the birds and what do you get? Fat birds! But if you invest that tuppence wisely in the bank, safe and sound, soon that tuppence invested safely in the bank will compound. And you will get that sense of conquest as your affluence expands in the hands of the directors who invest as proprietary demands. Idiots.

  • Anyone wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.

  • This is what I'm going to do! When I get that old I will spend my time feeding the birds. I'm halfway there now! I love birds!

  • This song is so beautiful. Julie Andrews sings it so well.

  • When I was 6years old I try to fly by umbrella

  • I pride myself on being stoic...but I cried..... I really shed a tear while listening to this song.

  • -___________-" i need to sing this song as a grade in a solo festival or else i fail my jr high choir class @ least i'll graduate thiz skool year & be in high skool :) but song is ok

  • I saw this in the theaters when it first came out....all I remember is my mother dressed me in footie pajamas knowing I wasn't going to stay awake through the whole thing.

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  • awwww i love this song so much. my mom sang this to me when i was little and i still love it. it brings back so many memories

  • This song makes me cry because it's so beautiful! Julie is so wonderful... <3

  • HOW THE FEDS SCREWED AMERICA:

    /watch?v=Qa6j4lEpQi0

  • I remember this porcelain figure of Feed the Birds. It had the lady with birds landing right beside her.

  • I don't like Citizen Kane, I don't like the Godfather Movies, I could find fault in Matilda...I can't touch this song.

  • A song about tuppence. Classic. Thumbs up tuppy lovers.

  • COOL :D

  • nice XD

  • I saw a snow globe in a Disney catalog several years back. It was very different than most of the playful & colorful Disney globes, and it caught my eye. It had St. Paul's cathedral, and instead of snow there were tiny birds, beautiful! Of course it played, "Feed the Birds", one of my favorite Shermon Bros songs. It was $65., and I just didn't have the $ to spend. Should have made the investment, found one on ebay about a year ago for $600.!! Turns out it was a very limited edition:(

  • the first time i watched this movie, i was 5 and i fell in love with it and i'm happy to say that that hasn't changed.

  • I like this song. When I played the movie with the pop ups, it was explained that the song represents not only generosity, but kindness. I really believe in that too.

  • makes me happy to be english

  • Why would you want to feed the birds? All you would get are fat birds. HAHA!

    But in all seriousness, I do love this movie.

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  • Is'nt it funny how some people can become so consumed with them-selves, that they really can't see past the end of thier nose?

  • For those who have said on here that this song makes them cry, well i got the dvd and yes it makes me cry too!,..and i'm a 42 year old man, so i watch this alone, it makes me feel very emotional as it reminds me of my childhood that was so long ago, people i grew up with and not around anymore, like my nan and my dad!

  • i love this song and yet it makes me cry :(

  • I wish I could go to that cathedral and see the statues.

  • @Possatboi you'll never, ever regret it. I'm from Malaysia and I try and go every 2 years. If I see nothing else in London, I got to St Paul's and the Tate Modern. Go the first chance you can. :)

  • In this day and age, the director/songwriters wouldn't be allowed to put the words 'cathedral', 'saint' and 'apostle' into the musical... It would be 'racist'. That's what the world is coming to...

  • how does this not have more views?? it's the best song in the film!

  • it makes us cry because it's leading us to Compassion!

  • @InnerMittenSignal well, a better reaction than shouting... 

  • @Starz0221 That's so sad! D: She is so great!

  • the little old bird woman comes... haha

    

  • Funny, I used to watch this movie all the time as a kid, and I didn't recall Julie Andrews being such a babe.

  • @KaydeyRai Goosebumps? Not pigeonbumps? :-)

  • Someone should write a song about Stephen Treadwell giving gifts to children.

  • She has a nice voice. Who is she?

  • @Querzeo This is Julie Andrews!!!!!!

    So sad that she can't sing any more, her voice is SO beautiful!

    She can't sing because she got a lump in her throat which blocked her vocal chords, and she had surgery to remove it, and her voice never came back after the surgery :'(

    Oh well, at least we have this! :D

  • I love listening to Julie Andrews. It's sad that we may never hear her sing again. Her voice is so lovely and it brings shivers down my spine when I hear her sing! Such a lovely woman, voice, song and movie.

  • No doubt the saints and apostles are looking down and smiling as you pass Scaramouche!

  • This is one of my favorite songs ever. It's also evident as to why this was Walt's favorite song. I'm studying in London right now and every time I walk past St. Paul's, this gets stuck in my head. Not a bad thing, I must say.

  • auditioning for something with this song!!!!!!!!!! WISH ME LUK TOOO!!!!

    

  • its so graceful how she tips the globe. ^.^

  • there's a reason this is Disney's favorite song

  • This movie was before my time, and I still got to see it when I was younger.

  • This movie (from far 1964) is pure art and 31 people (today), probably were never been child. Sorry for them!

  • thank you for up loading this with the lyrics. I could never be sure of what she was singing in the past. :)

  • 31 people disliked this after the birds they fed pooped on their cars.

  • I believe that the moral behind this song is:

    “Help the poor with what you have. Then the saints & apostles will smile upon you.”

  • I am trying out to play Mary Poppins in the school play. i may not ever compare to Julie Andrews, but I hope to do proud by her name :]

  • Singing this song for my audition for an accapella group :) wish me luck!

  • @hotdogstandsinphilly

    You're so right! Mary Poppins is also my favourite movie. I saw it first when I was at the age of nine. Now I'm an adult and I'm still in love with that masterpiece! :-) And I love that song very much. So wonderful! :-)

  • and 30 people should learn to listen....

  • @pandemits 31 out of 667,026 so far. (including me, I clicked the like button.)

  • generally accepted as Walt Disney's personal favourite song...

  • I want to go past the cathedral one day and see the birdwoman there, if she is I would probably cry with joy and obviously buy the crumbs!

  • Sometimes I wonder if the woman is really worth giving a tuppence to, but since Mary Poppins encourages it (I think), probably so.

  • Even when I was like 5 years old I got so emotional over this song, and now like 13 years later I watch it and I'm bawling over it as if I were watching Titanic D': This is one of my favourite songs ever! :D

  • @MomoiroGirl I agree :) I showed my mom this song because I'm doing it for an audition, and she said: "Haha, do you remember how much it made you cry when you were little?" And I did. It is SUCH a beautiful song.

  • The man who wrote this sung it on Walt Disney's 100th birthday, because it was Walt's favorite. The audience later told him there was a bird flying over the place he sang and flew away when the song was over. He believes it was Walt, saying thank you. It's just such a beautiful and emotional song :') <3

  • @langeweilevideosxD thats why ik got the notes and the words "feed the birds" with walt's name as a tattoo on my back

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  • I love this song and its underlying meaning, maybe that is why it was one of Walt Disneys favorite's. As for Tuppence being 2 pence the word was placed there by the Sherman brothers who had a tendancy to come up with their own language in their song writing.for example supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious.

  • @Fortrunmedic That Sir, is a lie. If you are implying that the Sherman Brothers created the word tuppence as a form of jabberwocky such as supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­­ious, you are utterly ignorant. Tuppence is a reduction of 'two pence' or two pennies. Also the origin of the phrase giving your 2 pennies worth (2 pence). Not to be confused with the currently circulated two pence coin since Mary Poppins takes place during the reign of Edward VII. The word tuppence dates back to the early 1500s

  • @decideyorownfate poor old fortrunmedic, lol! wasn't there a nicer way to inform him/hwe of their small wrong assumption! (which wasn't so far-fetched for anyone not brought up knowing the Ways of Brits! :) Someone needs to take a break, & sit & sing & feed the birds for awhile! (:D

  • @Fortrunmedic it's true, brits have been inventing words ala sherman bros for ages, but i can see how you made that mysteake, if old-timey english cockney culture is not your specialty! they would also call a half penny a ha'penny (pronounced "hay penny" :) & a "farthing" was a quarter of a penny...there was some alternative slang for every kind of money division. it's a GREAT song, i love it too, & decidey has got a jabberwockin' burr under their saddle to go loco on yuz like dat! lol! (:D

  • Please don't forget the great Jane Darwell playing so touchingly the Bird Lady. This was her last appearance in her carreer. She was a great character actress and won an Academy Award for The Grapes of Wrath.

  • there is something morose about this song.... mystically sombre, i love it

  • It's "two pence" and not "tuppence", but it's still a lovely song

  • @Khamyro Yes, while it is literally "two pence", people speaking it ran it together into "tuppence" so much that it became colloquial English, much like "Mr. and Mrs" come from "Master and Mistress". Now that we've parsed the lyrics, let's enjoy the song, shall we?

  • I just sang this song (or at least what I could remember) to calm my little one year old cousin down after nothing else worked. It really does work!!

  • I adore this song and it send my sisters to sleep!

  • i love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Mary sure knows how to get them to go to sleep!!! I love this SOOOO much!!!!!!!!!!

  • A very beautiful and moving song.

  • LOVE THIS SONGG!!

  • What a song! What a voice! What a meaning... :'(

  • 47 years on* It still has the power to give me chills ~

    Gotta Love Disney! ^ ^

  • I just saw the broadway series musical and it was friggin' AWESOME!!

  • It was one of Walt Disney's favorites. 

  • This song is the best. I wish I had iTunes money so I could by it. I guess I'll just use that money for a bag of crumbs for the birds, instead!

    I love Mary Poppins!

  • Most people can't see past their own nose... I think this should be played on every billboard and every chart so that people will stop being so selfish. So many other people that need something they cant provide... Food Mainly... So Feed The Birds as Julie would say. Thanks

  • This brings back childhood memories -sniff-

    God, sentimental stuff, I loved this song as a kid

    And I still do

  • Every time I try and doubt myself from doing charitable work, I remind myself of this song. "All around the Cathedral, the saints and apostles look down as she sells her wares. Even though you can't see them, you know they are smiling each time someone shows that he cares." <3

  • FANTASTICO , MARAVILHOSO. I LOVE THIS SONG. THANK´S FROM BRAZIL

  • I LLLLLLLLUV THIS SONGG IN MY HIGH SCHOOL WE ARE DOING A PRODUCTION FOR THIS I'M THE LEAD MARY POOPINS AND U ARE A BIG ROLE MODEL TO ME JULIE ITS TOO BAD YOUR VOICE IS BROKEN LONG LIVE U JULIE

  • @LOVINGMILEY99 I don't know if it was a mistake but you wrote mary "poopins" - sorry I'm only 14 i'm not the most mature girl in my class but your comment made me laugh.

    Any way love this this song it's beautiful!! makes me sleepy

  • 29 people have no souls

  • it was walt's fav. song to. I got it tattoo on my back. the sheet music, "feed the birds", Walter E Disney, birthday of walt, death-date of walt disney.

    A really great man.

    I went to the musical here in Holland and although in Dutch translated I cried. When I was younger I really loved this song, later I understood it's meaning and the fact that walt loved it as well.

  • at first when i was little i didn't understand any of the words, but in reality the song is so meaningful. slow down, love life, be thankful for what you have, and be happy. i love you, mary poppins.

  • she is so beautiful in this movie. and the sound of music. this was my fave song in mary poppins. i would sing this to myself to go to bed.

  • A little simple story about mercy and love, so warm so touching, touching everyhuman 's the kindness deep in the heart

    make you silent ,make you cay, make you be thankful

    make you

    love youself

    you friends

    family and everythings in the world

  • I was at St Pauls on May 1st ,I started singing this as I walked past,

    I got some very strange looks.

  • The 29 people who dislike this video only dislike it because:

    a) they don't like writing on the screen while watching a video

    b) it's not on the big screen

    but most probably -

    c) their volume control is broken, meaning they can't hear it

  • Aww, this actually made me cry... the tune and the words are beautiful, plus the nostalgia... *sniffle*

  • this song sends shivers threw me all the time anyone who dosnt feel this feeling has no feelings even if it is just a kids song

  • I love this song! The melody has an impact and Julie Andrews' voice adds so much to it.

  • i bought the DVD because it's my favourite movie..... i'm 15 hehee it really is awesome :)

  • @DominiqueEWeasley im 19 and i love this movie too, and it was made in like 1964 lol

  • i think we all agree what a great song it is...julie andrews adds so much more to the song its like velvet....and the only person and that includes me who comes close and who i would let sing a sing at my funaral is richard ashcroft...its so melodic when i have kids thats all they are gonna hear as they drift off t sleep ..and the beatles of course...oh it makes it even more upsetting when i realized the lad... the young lad is dead he died aged 21 how fucked up is that? its life i guess xx

  • 29 people can't see past the end of their nose.

  • More on the Bow Bells.. Google Bow Bells - St. Mary-le-Bow for full history...history has it in black and white and if all is to be taken seriously, then since their destruction, no true Londoner or cockney has been born in a very long time. Comments welcome

  • Sorry i meant to add, these bells were destroyed on 11 May 1941 by a German air raid during WWII, the bells were destroyed and in their place stands a replica set of 12 bells. The originals were set in place some time before 1392 when Dick Whittington heard Bow bells call him back to London to become Lord Mayor; to be born within the sound of Bow bells was the sign of a true Londoner or Cockney; and Bow bell's authority ends the medieval nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons,

  • Now 49 this song still brings a tear to my eye and shivers down my spine, why? because my grandmother told me as a girl she knew lady's like the one in the film who used to do just that, sell their wares to make a living. Beining a Cokney or should i say, a true Londoner as a cockney hasn't been born since the Bow Bells were demolished after WWII and to be a true Cockney you have to be born within the sound of them, well you cant now so the last of the Cockneys are very few and far between.

  • I.. I cried... >< It's just so... lovely!

  • I love this song/movie. It's turly great. i have watched it since i was just little.

  • I love this song/movie. It's turly great.

  • Gives me goose bumps every time I hear this song ....

  • Such a heavenly voice

  • i use to have this movie this was always the part of the movie i'd wait for lolz

  • I remember my mum used to sing this to me when I was going to bed, though she changed the words so it would be a lullaby, the melody was so beautiful and calming, it put me right to sleep. I'll always have fond memories of it, and this song

  • Love it! Thanks for posting

  • This was Walt's favorite song... And he would make the Sherman brothers play it for him every time they came to his office. Which they gladly did.... =..)

  • love

  • this is my favorite song of this movie and most likly of all time a amazing song with such a deeper meaning

  • I feel bad when I listen to this...

  • Fun Fact: This was Walt Disney's favourite song.

  • this song has always made me cry whenever I've heard it, I wish i could go back in time and be a child again

  • So beautiful.

  • 29 people were so amazed that their jaw dropped and hit the dislike button.

  • Wow..I actually have goosebumps

  • Awesome

  • Beautiful voice, song, music, movie and infatily purity.

    Roni

    Brazil.

  • Just a beautiful song - need I say more?

  • This song makes me emotinol and i love it.

  • when i was kid julie andrews was the greatest female on the planet.

  • @pinboyjorf she still is: )

  • this scene used to scare me

  • as someone said this song aint about birds its about charity and realizing its the small things that matter.

  • thisis quite possibly the best movie ever made because of thus song right here

  • @Riku1135 indefinitely one of the best, and the best Disney movie ever released

  • I love this song! No disney film these days will ever compare to the old ones!

  • Why doesn't Disney make them like this anymore?

    This was the classic "Off-School-Ill" film, now it's all Hannah Montana crap.

  • It is not about the birds or the diseases they may spread, but the moral behind the song, an act of kindness goes a long way.

  • @EvieGlamourTV

    Well said. I hate it how people come on Youtube to delibarately criticise. Why can't people just watch and enjoy?

  • I'm so going to be that old lady when I'm old. (Y)

  • Such a beautiful song.x you wont get a disney song now with such emotion.

  • @kh9234

    > you wont get a disney song now with such emotion

    Oh, they still make them. May I recommend God Help the Outcasts from Hunchback of Notre Dame.

  • @DefconWarningSystem,

    Even that time of Disney is gone - Hunchback was one of the last good ones.

  • This song ALWAYS made my grandmother cry.

  • Great song but this lady should not hang out with pigeons. Ornithosis, encephalitis, Newcastle disease, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, toxoplasmosis and salmonella are just a few of the illnesses spread by contact with pigeon poop and dead pigeons.

  • @jbrooksby right...its good to clear that just in case kids get ideas. hanging around with birds isn't safe though it looked fun.

  • @RanKudo007 Its not always safe they could get the bird flu

  • @jbrooksby "Feed the winged rats, tuppence a bag..."

    Don't get me wrong, excellent song of course, but you've nailed it.

  • I don't really care that much about birds but this song does somthing to me........thanks

  • When little every Christmas my mom was putting Mary Poppins in the Video..OMG back then imy favorite song (from the movie) was the supercalifragisticespiraladosi­ous but now is this one..

  • @kakas10000 i know.. it does bring back memories doesnt it

  • This song is so powerful, it even made Walt Disney himself cry.

  • Oh, so THIS is where Hitchcock got his inspiration....

  • It's easy to see why this was Walt Disney's favorite song. The Sherman brothers are masters.

  • the melody is so moving...