What is the Meal That Always Cheers?

Tune: Edward Rowland's and Glitz Rice's (or Alfred J. Walden's) "Mademoiselle from Armentières"

What is the meal that always cheers?
Barbecue!
What is the dish that has no peers?
Barbecue!
Butcher a half a dozen steers
And eat till it's coming out your ears—
Icky, sticky barbecue!

This is the dining protocol:
Barbecue!
Better for you than vitriol—
Barbecue.
Gobble the bad cholesterol—
And do it with lots of alcohol:
Easy, greasy barbecue!

Brisket of beef and baby back
Barbecue;
Succulent, sweet and carbon-black
Barbecue;
Make it a feast, and not a snack,
And eat till you get a heart attack—
Polishing off the bill of fare
Will probably mean Intensive Care—
Not that you'll feel a side effect
That angioplasty can't correct—
Ooey, gooey barbecue!