The Rhubarb Tart song                                          

 

I want another slice of rhubarb tart.

I want another lovely slice.

I'm not disparaging the blueberry pie

But rhubarb tart is oh so very nice.

A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!

A whatbarb tart? A rhubarb tart!

I want another slice of rhubarb tart!

 

The principles of modern philosophy

Were postulated by Descartes.

Discarding everything he wasn't certain of

He said 'I think therefore I am a rhubarb tart.'

A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!

A Rene who? Rene Descartes!

Poor nut he thought he was a rhubarb tart!

 

Read all the existentialist philosophers,

Like Schopenhauer and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Even Martin Heidegger agrees on one thing:

Eternal happiness is rhubarb tart.

A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!

A Jean-Paul who? A Jean-Paul Sartre!

Eternal happiness is rhubarb tart.

 

A rhubarb tart has fascinated all the poets.

Especially the immortal bard.

He caused Richard the Third to call on Bosworth Field:

'My kingdom for a slice of rhubarb tart!'

A rhubarb what? A rhubarb bard!

Immortal what? Immortal tart!

As rhymes go that is really pretty bard!

 

                        -- John Cleese