"Doll on a Music Box" is a song featured in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang sung by Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious and Dick van Dyke as Caractacus Potts. In the song, Truly Scrumptious is disguised as a wind up music box doll, metaphorically and actually on a pedestal. Additionally, Truly sings about herself and her rigid nature, all behind the mask of the "doll" she is portraying.
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Truly Scrumptious:
What do you see?
You people gazing at me?
You see a doll on a music box that's
Wound by a key
How can you tell?
I'm under a spell
I'm waiting for love's first kiss
You cannot see
How much I long to be free
Turning around on this music box that's
Wound by a key
Yearning
Yearning
While I'm
Turning around and around
Truly Scrumptious & Caractacus Potts:
What do you see? (Truly Scrumptious)
You people gazing at me? (You're truly, truly, scrumptious)
You see a doll on a music box that's (Scrumptious as a cherry)
Wound by a key. (peach parfait)
How can you tell? (When you're near me)
I'm under a spell. ( it's so delicious)
I'm waiting for love's first kiss. ( Honest, truly. You're the)
(Answer to my wishes)
You cannot see (Truly Scrumptious)
How much I long to be free (And if I seem presumptuous)
Turning around on this music box that's (Never, never, ever)
Wound by a key. (Go away)
Yearning (My heart beats so unruly)
Yearning (because I love you truly)
While I'm ( Honest, Truly)
Turning around and around. (I do)
