Gonna Take a Continental Breakfast

Tune: Les Brown's, Bud Green's and Ben Homer's "Sentimental Journey"

Gonna take a continental breakfast;
Skip the kippers—ban the bran.
Gonna take a continental breakfast
To renew my Inner Man.

One baguette and paper-thin prosciutto
Doesn't make a grand repast.
Try to chew it largo sostenuto;
Try to make those morsels last.

Leaven;
I'm about to plotz from leaven.
What I wouldn't give for Devon;
Land of clotted cream—or bacon rind
(The English kind)!

Heaven knows, it's not a Dunderbeck fest;
Sausage meat cannot be had.
Gonna take a continental breakfast—
Continental "breakfast," egad!