# You Two

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{{About|the song|the band|U2|other uses|U2 (disambiguation)|and|You Too (disambiguation)}}
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| artist     = [Dick Van Dyke](/source/Dick_Van_Dyke)
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| released   = {{Start date|1968}}
| B-side     = [Hushabye Mountain](/source/Hushabye_Mountain)
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| length     = 2:47
| label      = [United Artists](/source/United_Artists_Records)
| writer     = [Sherman Brothers](/source/Sherman_Brothers)
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"'''You Two'''" is a song from the 1968 [film musical](/source/film_musical) ''[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](/source/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(film))''.  The song also appears in the 2002–2005 [stage musical](/source/Chitty_the_Musical) version.  It was written by [Robert and Richard Sherman](/source/Sherman_Brothers).<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062803/soundtrack/|title=Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - IMDb|website=[IMDb](/source/IMDb) }}</ref>  The song is sung by a single–widower father, [Caractacus Potts](/source/Caractacus_Potts) ([Dick Van Dyke](/source/Dick_Van_Dyke)) to his two twin children ("Jeremy" and "Jemima").<ref name="auto"/>  An inventor by trade, Potts sings the song against the backdrop of his eccentric inventor's workshop. The melody from this song was also used in [counterpoint](/source/counterpoint) several times with the melody of the title song, "[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](/source/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(song))".

==Stage version==
"'''Them Three'''" is a short [reprise](/source/reprise) of "You Two" that was written for the stage musical in 2002.  It is sung by "'Grandpa' Potts" and was also authored by the [Sherman Brothers](/source/Sherman_Brothers) nearly thirty-five years after the song was originally written.  It is not heard in the movie.

"'''Us Two'''" is also a short reprise crafted especially for the stage musical and written by the same writers.  It is sung in the Vulgarian dungeons by Jeremy and Jemima, just before "[Chitty Prayer](/source/Chitty_Prayer)", which is a short reprise of the title song.  It is also not heard in the movie.

==External sources==
* [Sherman, Robert B.](/source/Sherman%2C_Robert_B.) ''[Walt's Time: from before to beyond](/source/Walt's_Time%3A_from_before_to_beyond)''. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.

==References==
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{{Chitty Chitty Bang Bang}}
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Category:1968 songs
Category:1968 singles
Category:Dick Van Dyke songs
Category:Songs from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Category:Songs written by the Sherman Brothers
Category:United Artists Records singles

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