Fish and Chips Lyrics

My Uncle Henry's got a shop down the High Street
with marble on the counter and a big glass door.
My Uncle Henry's very famous down the High Street.
So let me tell you what he's very famous for.

He found one day his customers was getting thin.
They'd pass his fish and chip shop but they'd not go in.
So Uncle stepped outside, threw back his head and cried
in a voice as loud as sin.
Oh...

Haddock or Cod or Sprats or Hake,
filleted Dover Sole,
Kippers or Scampi, Plaice or Skate,
Mackerel by the shoal.

I tell you everything's fresh and newly fried
hot to the finger tips.
You've never eaten till you've tried
Ol' Henry's Fish and Chips!

Well, Uncle Henry soon attracted a crowd there,
All sorts of funny people like you never saw!
But when they heard me Uncle shoutin' out aloud there,
they come to see what all the blinkin' noise was for.

From Acton Town to Hackney Wick and all around,
they flocked to Uncle's like it was a football ground.
A fish he didn't sell, but still they paid him well,
just to hear his great new sound.
Oh...

Hddock or Cod or Sprats or Hake,
filleted Dover Sole,
Kippers or Scampi, Plaice or Skate,
Mackerel by the shoal.

I tell yer everything's fresh and newly fried
hot to the finger tips.
You've never eaten till you've tried
Ol' Henry's Fish and Chips!

Soon Uncle Henry was a signing a contract
for half a dozen records and TV and all.
Not only that, but someone else had been in contact
and offered him a concert at the Albert Hall.

But Uncle wasn't bothered by his rise to fame.
He kept his fish and chip shop going just the same.
Though now he made his cash, at half a crown a bash,
singin' out his old refrain.
Oh...

Haddock or Cod or Sprats or Hake,
filleted Dover Sole,
Kippers or Scampi, Plaice or Skate,
Mackerel by the shoal.

I tell you everything's fresh and newly fried
hot to the finger tips.
You've never eaten till you've tried
Ol' Henry's Fish and Chips!

Now Uncle `Enry's clientele, they inform us,
includes eleven Ministers and one MP.
Dukes and their Duchesses in numbers quite enormous,
And chinless Debs who dend you up the family tree!

When questioned by reporters on his great success
he never makes a speech, he merely says
"I guess it's just because me voice is everybody's choice.
Would you like to hear it?"
Yes!

"I thought you might"

Haddock or Cod or Sprats or Hake,
filleted Dover Sole,
Kippers or Scampi, Plaice or Skate,
Mackerel by the shoal.

I tell yer everything's fresh and newly fried
hot to the finger tips.
You've never eaten till you've tried
Ol' Henry's Fish and Chips!

Everything's fresh and newly fried
hot to the finger tips.
You've never eaten, never, ever eaten,
till you've tried those can't be beaten,
Uncle Henry's Fish and Chips!

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