A shame you could not get past monetary pity
and relish a dish of cullenary simplicity.

Least we allow the Laugh Cat to lead this thread astray into one of her more moribund melancholy strains...let us move on to MUSIC!!!

You would expect this song to be in Chapter 9 of Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is titled "The Mock Turtle's Story" however, Lewis "tricks" us and places it in Chapter 10... the Gryphon (a distant family member of mine) is speaking... "...Would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?"

Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?'

The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:

Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau - ootiful Soo - oop!
Beau ootiful Soo - oop!
Soo oop of the e - e - evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!

Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two
pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Beau - ootiful Soo - oop!
Beau - ootiful Soo - oop!
Soo - oop of the e - e - evening,
Beautiful, beauti - FUL SOUP!'