We’re famous for buses,
The Beatles and pubs;
For Shakespeare’s plays
And the best football clubs;
We bake a mean crumpet,
We make a good brew,
But the one thing we’re best at –
We know how to queue!
We queue for the toilet
We queue for the shops
We queue up in restaurants
The queue never stops
We queue in the sunshine
We queue in the rain
We queue and we queue
And we never complain.
We’re decent at cricket
And rugby and castles;
We’ve got Royal Mail
Delivering parcels;
We love fish and chips
And the chimes of Big Ben,
But for waiting in line
We get ten out of ten!
We queue at the market
We queue in the street
Through darkness and light
And through storms and through sleet
We queue in the queue
And, with stip upper lip,
“A jolly fine queue”
You just might hear us quip.
We’re Cockneys and Scousers
And Geordies and Toffs;
We linger in columns
And nobody scoffs;
And if you’re in doubt
About what you should do,
Just come on and join in
The Great British Queue!
