Fred Basset by Alex Graham for January 16, 2015
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Transcript:
a sausage roll... ...in... ...one fell swoop!
a sausage roll... ...in... ...one fell swoop!
By the mystic regulationOf our dark Association,Ere you open conversationWith another kindred soul,You must eat a sausage-roll!You must eat a sausage-roll! A sausage-roll!
If, in turn, he eats another,That’s a sign that he’s a brother –Each may fully trust the other.It is quaint and it is droll,But it’s bilious on the whole.Very bilious, very bilious on the whole.
It’s a greasy kind of pasty,Which, perhaps, a judgement hastyMight consider rather tasty:Once (to speak without disguise)It found favour in our eyes.It found favour, it found favour in our eyes.
But when you’ve been six months feeding(As we have) on this exceedingBilious food, it’s no ill-breedingIf at these repulsive piesOur offended gorges rise!Our offended gorges rise! Our gorges rise!