A popular song from 1916
Words by Chas. McCarron
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:
Lyrics
- This great big nation is worried for fair
With strikes and walkouts, we’re up in the air
I hear the trouble is goin’ to double
The cost of eating is something terrible
Those corporations are beyond belief
They’re getting far too numerous
I don’t mean the corporations packing the beef
But corporations on the beef consumers
Chorus:
Eat and grow thin, eat and grow thin
Everybody’s on that diet
It’s goin’ to start a riot
‘Cause the poor fools won’t follow the rules
They eat up every dish
Everything from soup to fish
It’s really no use, they’ll never reduce
All their life they’ll have a double chin
One fat girl whose name is May
Six months ate six meals a day
And now she looks like a bale of hay
From trying to eat and grow thin
- The daily papers make everyone think
That lots of people are dying from drink
But they’re mistaken, it’s beef and bacon
And food that causes all this dyspepsia
Some people tell us to fast and grow fat
And others visa verce
There’s a fellow that I know who’s doing just that
And yet I hear he’s getting worse and worser
Chorus:
Eat and grow thin, eat and grow thin
Everybody’s on that diet
It’s goin’ to start a riot
One girl named Dean ate pickles and cream
And now the doctors state
“Shall we blast or operate?”
It’s really no use, she’ll never reduce
All her life she’ll have a double chin
One poor girl, a newly wed
Ate five loaves of her own bread
For her last Sunday, some prayers were said
From trying to eat and grow thin
Sung by Vancha March: