Hard Cheese of Old England
(Les Barker)

There's Cheddar and Cheshire and Lancashire too,

Leicester's bright orange and Stilton is blue.

It waxes so lyrical, what can you do but sing,

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Oh the hard cheese of old England,

In old England very hard cheese.

Derby's got green bits because of the sage,

And when it gets older its kept in a cage.

What does it hum when it reaches this age but,

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They say double Gloucester is twicest as nice,

They say double Gloucester there, I've said it twice,

Its nice in potatoes but nicest in mice.

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Those damn foreigners aren't worth a mention,

Old Gorgonzolas is renowned for it stenchen,

His brother Emil wrote novels in French and sing,

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There's Swaledale and Wendslydale, Rutland to add,

Shropshire and Cornish you may not have had,

It's not bad on salads this ballad's not sad and sing,

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My young love said to me my mother won't mind,

And my father once liked you for your lack of rind,

No cheese greater love for his food than mankind.

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