The Rhubarb Tart Song

The Rhubarb Tart Song, sung by John Cleese and The 1948 Show Choir

Lyrics:
I want another slice of rhubarb tart.
I want another lovely slice.
I'm not disparaging the blueberry pie
But rhubarb tart is oh so very nice.
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!
A whatbarb tart? A rhubarb tart!
I want another slice of rhubarb tart!

The principles of modern philosophy
Were postulated by Descartes.
Discarding everything he was uncertain of
He said 'I think therefore I am a rhubarb tart.'
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!
Rene who? Rene Descartes!
Poor Marx he thought he was a rhubarb tart!

A rhubarb tart has fascinated all the poets.
Especially the immortal bard.
He made Richard the Third call out at Bosworth Field:
'My kingdom for a slice of rhubarb tart!'
Immortal what? Immortal tart!
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb bard!
As rhymes go that is really pretty bard!

Since Wassily Kandinski and Paul Klee
Laid down the axioms of abstract art
Even Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrian
Preferred to paint a slice of Rhubarb tart
A Wasi- who? A Wassily!
A Candin- who? a Candinty
And how did he get in here for a start?

Read all the existentialist philosophers,
Like Schopenhauer and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Even Martin Heidegger agrees on one thing:
Eternal happiness is rhubarb tart.
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!
Jean-Paul who? A Jean-Paul Sartre!
That sounds just like a rhyme from Lionel Bart!

I'm sorry...

If however you're a beekeeper, accountancy,
Sir, General-in-Command,
Our advice to you is always go to work
On a slice of Rhubarb Tart!!!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• john
• cleese
• comedy
• monty
• python
• 1948
• show
• tim
• brooke-taylor
• graham
• chapman
• song
• rhubarb
• tart

[random0mushroom]

i love John Cleese

his songs are hilarious

have you heard 'iv'e got a ferret stuck up my nose'?

this is awesome thanks for posting

if only i liked rhubarb :L

[EuskaltelEuskadi]

@random0mushroom I have also uploaded The Ferret song, just go to my channel, you'll find it there.

[momlinda51]

Recipe???

[EuskaltelEuskadi]

@momlinda51 for a rhubarb tart? I've no idea... probably pastry+ rhubarbs!! thanks for watching :)

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Did you, Euskalte, put this slide show together yourself? It's very good!

Great song. I first heard it (once) years ago!

[EuskaltelEuskadi]

Thanks! I did indeed make the slide show myself.

[kyrastube]

oh dear john, bless him, but he really cant sing. haha. but none the less, I love this!

[CenaTv2]

I decent song, but i really think comedy songs should be left to the goons and benny hill.

[Rumpio]

Based on John Phillip Sousa's "The Washington Post".

If you find a Youtube video of Sousa's "Liberty Bell" you might notice another link with Cleese!

[Notebooked]

I haven't heard this version of the song before. Sounds a lot cleaner than the ISIRTA version, so thanks to you.

Oh dear, that voice...whether ferrets or rhubarbs, he couldn't sing, could he? Though that kind of adds to it, somehow.

[sexyeyes1969]

I first heard this song onDavid Wisdoms Nightlines CBC Radio 2 from 10pm till 5am

Weekends. He played odds and ends and alot of Alternative pop. What a great show.

Too bad CBC discontinued the show. I picked up alot of music no one heard,

I do have tapes of some of his famous shows.........................