The Roundest Pickled Egg I've Ever Seen

Video by Elliot Mason & Mike Fordham

I went down to the chip shop

To go and buy some chips

I asked for some chips and a battered sausage

And a can of diet Lilt

Just as I was paying

He asked did I want anything else

I said alright I’ll have a pickled egg

And then he went and he took one out

But there was something about this pickled egg

That wasn’t really right

It was out of all proportion and

It gave me quite a fright

Cos it was the roundest pickled egg I’ve ever seen

It was the roundest pickled egg oh yes indeed

It was the roundest pickled egg I’ve ever seen

It was the roundest pickled Eeeeeggggg

Well I couldn’t quite believe it

This egg was really round

It tasted like a pickled egg

But it didn’t look like a pickled egg

It looked more like a golf ball

Without those little dents

Never before have I ever seen

Such a spherical bloody egg

Cos there was something about this pickled egg

That wasn’t really right

It was like a massive bonbon

Or a small full moon at night

Cos it was the roundest pickled egg I’ve ever seen

It was round and pickled and eggy don’t you see

It was the roundest pickled egg I’ve ever seen

It was the roundest pickled Eeeeeggggg

Well I’ve seen a round orange and a circular saw

I’ve seen a round table and a mat on the floor

But I’ve never ever seen

Such a perfectly round pickled egg

As the one that I saw on that day

When I bought one from the chip shop

That’s around the corner from me

The one by the station?

No the other one that’s closer to me next to the dry cleaners

Oh yes I know the one that you mean

I hear they do round pickled eggs there

Yes that’s what I’ve been going on about for the last 5 minutes

Oh have you? Oh I’m sorry

I didn’t hear the start of the conversation

That’s alright.

Let me tell you ’bout it once again

Cos it was the roundest pickled egg I’ve ever seen

It was round and pickled and eggy don’t you see

It was the roundest pickled egg I’ve ever seen

It was the roundest pickled Eeeeeggggg

From ‘Life Is Like A Movie’

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