Food, Glorious Food

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5  5    5    5   5  5    5
Is it worth the waiting for 
  <5   <5    <5  <5 <5  <5
If we live till eighty-four
-5  -5 -5 -5 -5 -5  6 8   
All we ever get is gruel
5  5   5  5   5  5   5
Every day we say a prayer
 <5   <5    <5    <5  <5  <5  <5   
Will they change the bill of fare
 -5   -5 -5  -5   -5   -5  6 8
Still we get the same old gruel
  -6    -6 -6   -6   -6  -6  6     6  6   6
There’s not a crust, not a crumb, can we find
 6  6  <-5  <-5  <-5  <-5 <-5  <-5 -5
Can we beg, can  we   borrow   or cadge
-5   -5      5  5   5   5   5   5    6  6   6   6
But there’s nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
 6   6   7    7    7   7    7  7  7  7
When we all close our eyes and imagine
 8     7  6  5  <-7
Food, glorious food
-7   -6 -5  -4  <7  7 
Hot sausage and mustard
  8     7   6   5  <-7
While we’re in the mood
 -7  -6 -5  -4 <7  7
Cold jelly and custard
  6    6 -6    7  7 -7 -5
Pease pudding and saveloys
 -5   -5  6  -6  <-6  7
What next is the question
 7    7 -7 -8   -8  8    8
Rich gentlemen have it, boys
-8  8 <8 -9
In digestion
 8     7  6  5 <-7
Food, glorious food
  -7   -6 -5  -4 <7  7
We’re anxious to try it
  8    7   6   5 <-7
Three banquets a day
-7  -6 -5 -4 <7 7
Our favorite diet
 6    6  -6  7   7   -7   -7
Just picture a great big steak
 
 -7     -7 -8   8    -9
Fried, roasted, or stewed
<9   10    10 9 -9   10    10 9 -9   10   10  9 -9  9  
Oh, food, wonderful food, marvelous food, glorious food
 8    7  6  5  <-7
Food, glorious food
 -7  -6  -5    -4   <7  7 
What is there more handsome
  8      7    6    5   <-7
Gulped, swallowed, or chewed
 -7    -6  -5  -4    <7  7 
Still worth a king’s ransom
 6   6  -6 7    7   -7 -5
What is it we dream about
 -5    -5   6 -6  <-6 7
What brings on a  sigh
  7    7 -7   -8   -8   8  8
Piled peaches and cream about
-8   8  <9 -9
Six feet high
 8    7  6  5  <-7
Food, glorious food
-7    -6    -5    -4 <7 7
Eat right through the menu
 8    7  6   5   <-7
Just loosen your belt
-7  -6  -5 -4   <7   7
Two inches and then you
 6   6 -6  7  7 -7 -7
Work up a new appetite
-7  -7  -8 8  -9
In this interlude
<-9   10    10  9 -9   10   10 9 -9   10   10  9 -9  9    
Then food, once again food, fabulous food, glorious food
 <8   <7 -6 <5  -8
Food, glorious food
 <-7  <-6  <-5  5   -7    <7
Don’t care what it looks like
  <8    <7 -6 <5    -8
Burned, underdone, crude
 <-7  <-6  <-5   5   -7     <7
Don’t care what the cook’s like
 -6   -6 <-6  <7 <7 <-7  <-5
Just thinking of growing fat
<-5 <-5 -6 <-6  7  <7
Our senses go  reeling
<7  <7 <-7 8   8 <8    <8
One moment of knowing that
 8   <8 -9 <-9
Full up feeling
 <8   <7 -6 <5  -8
Food, glorious food
<-7  <-6 <-5  5   -7  <7
What wouldn’t we give for
 <8  <7 -6 <5   -8
That extra bit more
 <-7   <-6 <-5  5   -7  <7
That’s all that we live for
-6    -6  <-6 <7 <7 <-7 <-7  
Why should we be fated to
<-7 <-7 8  <8   <-9
Do nothing but brood
10  -10  10 <9 <-9 -10 -10 <9 <-9 -10  -10 <9 <-9 -10
On food, magical food, wonderful food, marvelous food
-10 <9 <-9 -10 -10 <9 <-9 -10  -10 <-10 11 <11
Fabulous food, beautiful food, glorious food
 
 8   8    8   8   8 8  8   8  8
For what you are about to receive
 8   8   8    8    8  8  -7  -8 -8
May the Lord make you truly thankful
8 8
Amen

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