Food, Glorious Food
Is it worth the waiting for?
If we live 'til 84
All we ever get is gruel!
Every day we say our prayer
Will they change the bill of fare?
Still we get the same old gruel!
There's not a crust, not a crumb, can we find?
Can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge?
But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
When we all close our eyes and imagine
Food, glorious food
Hot sausage and mustard
While we're in the mood
Cold jelly and custard
Peas, pudding and saveloys
What's next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it, boys; indigestion
Food, glorious food
We're anxious to try it
Three banquets a day
Our favorite diet
Just picture a great big steak
Fried, roasted, or stewed
Oh, food! Wonderful food!
Marvellous food, glorious food
Food, glorious food
What is there more handsome?
Gulped, swallowed or chewed
Still worth a king's ransom!
What is it we dream about?
What brings on a sigh?
Piled peaches and cream about
Six feet high
Food, glorious food
Eat right through the menu
Just loosen your belt
Two inches and then you
Work up a new appetite in this interlude
Then food, once again food, fabulous food
Glorious food
Food glorious food, don't care what it looks like
Burnt, underdone, crude
Don't care what the cooks like
Just thinking of growing fat
Our senses go reeling
One moment of knowing that
Full-up feeling
Food glorious food (food, glorious food)
What wouldn't we give for (what wouldn't we give for)
That extra bit more (that extra bit more)
That's all we live for (that's all we live for)
Why should we be fated to do?
Nothing but brood on food
Magical food
Wonderful food
Marvellous food
Fabulous food
Beautiful food
Glorious food
If we live 'til 84
All we ever get is gruel!
Every day we say our prayer
Will they change the bill of fare?
Still we get the same old gruel!
There's not a crust, not a crumb, can we find?
Can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge?
But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
When we all close our eyes and imagine
Food, glorious food
Hot sausage and mustard
While we're in the mood
Cold jelly and custard
Peas, pudding and saveloys
What's next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it, boys; indigestion
Food, glorious food
We're anxious to try it
Three banquets a day
Our favorite diet
Just picture a great big steak
Fried, roasted, or stewed
Oh, food! Wonderful food!
Marvellous food, glorious food
Food, glorious food
What is there more handsome?
Gulped, swallowed or chewed
Still worth a king's ransom!
What is it we dream about?
What brings on a sigh?
Piled peaches and cream about
Six feet high
Food, glorious food
Eat right through the menu
Just loosen your belt
Two inches and then you
Work up a new appetite in this interlude
Then food, once again food, fabulous food
Glorious food
Food glorious food, don't care what it looks like
Burnt, underdone, crude
Don't care what the cooks like
Just thinking of growing fat
Our senses go reeling
One moment of knowing that
Full-up feeling
Food glorious food (food, glorious food)
What wouldn't we give for (what wouldn't we give for)
That extra bit more (that extra bit more)
That's all we live for (that's all we live for)
Why should we be fated to do?
Nothing but brood on food
Magical food
Wonderful food
Marvellous food
Fabulous food
Beautiful food
Glorious food
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Writer(s): Lionel Bart
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