The Arsenic Cake [Le Gâteau à l'arsenic] lyrics

Pestilential Pastries

- Ah poisonous pancakes !

- Yes

- Murderous macaroons

- Not bad

- Viper’s venom topped with cream

- Hurrah !

- Cyanide custard pie

- Great !

- Ah ! Special iced arsenic cake

- Oh yes ah ah !

Take a big bowl of strychnine

Cream with hemlock till its green

Take a glass of paraffin

Warm it up and tip it in.

No I’ll put in two for luck

Add a spot of opium

Marinate a leach in scum

Sprinkle with some chopped frog’s spawn

(Now we add a peppercorn)

- Nooo !

-Ah oh well

Crumble up your arsenic

In a glass of narcotic

Add two spoons of castor oil

Put them on the stove to boil

No I’ll put in three for luck

Put some snake’s blood in a bowl

Then stir in a crushed tadpole

Add a thimble full of glue

(Add a spot of suger too)

- Nooo !

- No ? Oh well

Add rat poison to the brew

Cobra’s venom goes in too

Sweeten it with orange juice

Three segments is what you use

No I think just one will do

Thicken all with mandrake root

Decorate with moldy fruit

Just before the funeral

- Add a spot of vitriol

- Nooo !! Oh yes !

- Haha I know it’ll be a good idea !

Special iced arsenic cake

Means that we can safely take

Seats beside the river Nile

To see the sacred Crocodile

Eat… The… Gauls!

(Ba be doo de do wa wa ! Yeah !)