Gilbert And Sullivan - Song Ludwig Lyrics

LUD:

By the mystic regulation

Of our dark Association,

Ere you open conversation

With another kindred soul,

You must eat a sausage-roll! (Producing one.)



ALL:

You must eat a sausage-roll!



LUD:

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.



ALL:

Very bilious on the whole.



LUD:

It's a greasy kind of pasty,

Which, perhaps, a judgement hasty

Might consider rather tasty:

Once (to speak without disguise)

It found favour in our eyes.



ALL:

It found favour in our eyes.



LUD:

But when you've been six months feeding

(As we have) on this exceeding

Bilious food, it's no ill-breeding

If at these repulsive pies

Our offended gorges rise!



ALL:

Our offended gorges rise