The Marrow Song (Oh, What a Beauty!)

The passing today of an English actor, Bernard Cribbins, representative of an earlier and earthier, English actor and comic, with echoes of the old English Music Hall.

The Good Old Days (6th April 1973). Bernard Cribbins leads the audience in a rousing rendition of The Marrow Song.pic.twitter.com/eipSk82A6o

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The Marrow Song (Oh, What a Beauty!)

Down the road there lives a man I'd like you all to know

He grew a great big marrow for the local flower show

And when the story got around, they came from far and wide

And when the people saw the marrow, everybody cried

 

(Ooooh! What a beauty!), I've never seen one as big as that before

(Ooooh! What a beauty!), It must be two feet long or even more

It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat

I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that

(Ooooh! What a beauty!), I've never seen one as big as that before

(Oh-Oh-Ooooh! What a beauty!, we've never seen one as big as that before)

 

He was leaning on the garden gate the other day

And beckoned to a lady who lives just across the way

He took her down the garden path and showed it her with pride

And when she saw the size of it, the little lady sighed

 

(Ooooh! What a beauty!), She'd never seen one as big as that before

(Ooooh! What a beauty!), It must be two feet long or even more

It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat

I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that

(Ooooh! What a beauty!), I've never seen one as big as that before

(It's stupendous!)

(It's colossul!)

(It's gigantic!)

(It's bigger than that!)

 

And then the flower show was held and everybody went

To see the great big marrow, lying there inside the tent

Soon the judges came along to give the prizes out

They only took one look at it and then began to shout

 

(Ooooh! What a beauty!, we've never seen one as big as that before)

(Ooooh! What a beauty!, it must be two feet long or even more)

It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat

I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that

(Ooooh! What a beauty!, we've never seen one as big as that before

Oooo-oooo-oooh! I've never seen one as big as that before.