Music: God Save the King

Best-selling popular songs in London are Tolchard Evans' Forty Million Churchills, Noel Coward's London Pride, and Michael Carr's The Day I Met His Majesty the King. Food shortages have brought forth such appetizers as Hugh Charles's & Sonny Miller's Potato Pete and the sad-refrained:

Hey! little hen! When, when, when will you lay me an egg for my tea?

Hey! little hen! When, when, when will you try to supply one for me?

Get into your nest, do your little best, get it off your chest, I can do the rest.

Hey! little hen! When, when, when will you lay me an egg for my...

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