GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!

Jack and Jill have a poultry farm, Where all the fowls walk arm in arm; They don't worry and they don't care, It's no Misery Farm down there! What's the reason? I'll tell you— Cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo!!

CHORUS

What's the song they sing on Sunday?

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! What's the song they sing on Monday?

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!

Hear the hens laugh— Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Foreign yolks have come unstuck! One egg, two eggs, three for luck—

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!

This jolly song was heard every night last week by every Briton who tuned in on the London Daily Express's patriotic Egg Hour. Thus one of the...

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