Beautiful Soup (Female Voice)

male or female voice and piano

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!

A Lewis Carroll Songbook, a collection of eleven songs in celebration of Lewis Carroll’s wit, loopy logic, and love of the world of children is also available at SwirlyMusic.org.

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