https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsOcYF69AY






Food, Glorious Food", written by Lionel Bart, is the
opening song from the musical
and movie Oliver! It is sung

when the workhouse boys from the 1960s West End and Broadway musical and 1968 film adaptation are
dreaming and fantasizing about food while going to collect their gruel from
the staff of the workhouse.
[BOYS]
Is it worth the waiting for?
If we live 'til eighty four
All we
ever get is gru...el!
Ev'ry day we say our prayer --
Will they change the
bill of fare?
Still we get the same old gru...el!
There is not a cust, not
a crumb can we find,
Can we beg, can we borrow, or catch,
But there's
nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
When we all close our eyes and
imag...ine

Food, glorious food!
Hot sausage and mustard!
While
we're in the mood --
Cold jelly and custard!
Peas, pudding and
saveloys!
What next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it, boys
--
In-di-gestion!

Food, glorious food!
We're anxious to try
it.
Three banquets a day --
Our favourite diet!

Just picture a
great big steak --
Fried, roasted or stewed.
Oh, food,
Wonderful
food,
Marvellous food,
Glorious food.

Food, glorious food!
What
is there more handsome?
Gulped, swallowed or chewed --
Still worth a
king's ransom!
What is it we dream about?
What brings on a sigh?
Piled
pieahes and cream, about
Six feet high!

Food, glorious food!
Eat
right through the menu.
Just loosen your belt
Two inches and then
you
Work up a new appetite.
In this interlude --
The food,
Once
again, food
Fabulous food,
Glorious food.

Food, glorious
food!
Don't care what it looks like
--
Burned!
Underdone!
Crude!
Don't care what the cook's
like.
Just thinking of growing fat --
Our senses go reeling
One moment
of knowing that
Full-up feeling!

Food, glorious food!
What wouldn't
we give for
That extra bit more --
That's all that we live for
Why
should we be fated to
Do nothing but brood
On food,
Magical food,

Wonderful food,
Marvellous food,
Fabulous
food,

[OLIVER]
Beautiful food,

[BOYS]