RAREBIT AND PICKLED PORK

You can sing those songs of Tennessee and dumplings in a stew
You can sing of sailors on the sea and our brave little army too
Now I'll sing a song that is sensible that will make you shout "hooray"
For what is it that made Great Britain what she is today?

Rarebit and pickled pork, rarebit and pickled pork
Rarebit and pickled pork I love you
Every time we smell it in the kitchen stewing
The family for dinner well they all start queueing
The cat meows and the dog bow-wows as in the room we walk
But it's the slavey that gets the gravy from the rarebit and the pickled pork

Now what made Cambridge win the boat race and Boulton the English Cup?              
What saw Grimsby and Middelsborough through, to the first link they went up?
The air race was by Britain won, the derby by Trigull
And what did they all train on well I think you ought to know

Rarebit and pickled pork rarebit and pickled pork
Rarebit and pickled pork, I love you
Winston Churchill had some that was cooked by his daughter
Then he swam the channel in an hour and a quarter
Brave Nelson he on the Victory, these word wrote up in chalk
What made the Navy? It was gravy from the rarebit and the pickled pork
                        
Rarebit and pickled pork rarebit and pickled pork
Rarebit and pickled pork, I love you
Perhaps you'd like to know of how the Great War ended
The Germans had a whiff of it and they surrendered
In USA what did Ramsey say, when on peace they did talk? 
We'll scrap the navy and save the gravy from the rarebit and the pickled pork