Showing posts with label cannibals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cannibals. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2009

The cannibals' song

For some reason, the lyrics (or at least the refrain) of a song popped into my head this morning.  They're from a comedy review written by John Albery, and performed at Univ in about 1970.  I don't remember much of the plot (if any) although I recall there was a dialog involving the word "bison" mistaken for "basin".  Another joke went something like this:
  • (british explorer type) I see you recieved a parcel this morning.
  • (cannibal) Yeah, mon.
  • (british explorer type) Supplies?
  • (cannibal) No, we been expectin' it for weeks.
The refrain of the Cannibals' song goes something like this:
  • For breakfast, dinner and tea and lunch;
  • We like to eat bodies, crunch, crunch, crunch;
    • Munch, munch, munch,
    • Slurp, slurp, slurp,
    • Yummy yummy yummy yummy,
    • Burp! Burp! Burp!
It's odd how the memory works.  But then I got to thinking.  Is any of this stuff written down anywhere?  I haven't been able to find it on the web.

While I was thinking about such things, I was reminded that I have forgotten the text of the grace which we scholars had to "perform" for a whole week, and reputedly the longest grace of any Oxford or Cambridge college.  Payment: one pint of beer for each reading of the grace.  I wonder if that is still the tradition.  Time to find out.