Aisle of Plenty Lyrics
[Verse]
"I don't belong here," said old Tessa out loud
"Easy, love, there's the Safe Way home"
Thankful for her Fine Fare discount
Tess Co-operates
Still alone in o-Hell-o
See the deadly nightshade grow
[Outro: Overlapping Voices]
English ribs of beef bone in forty-seven pence a pound
Peek Freans Family assorted from seventeen and a half to twelve
Fairy Liquid Giant, slashed from 20p to seventeen and a half
Table jellies at four pence each
Anchor butter down to eleven pence for a half
Birds Eye dairy cream sponge on offer this week
It's Scrambled Eggs
"I don't belong here," said old Tessa out loud
"Easy, love, there's the Safe Way home"
Thankful for her Fine Fare discount
Tess Co-operates
Still alone in o-Hell-o
See the deadly nightshade grow
[Outro: Overlapping Voices]
English ribs of beef bone in forty-seven pence a pound
Peek Freans Family assorted from seventeen and a half to twelve
Fairy Liquid Giant, slashed from 20p to seventeen and a half
Table jellies at four pence each
Anchor butter down to eleven pence for a half
Birds Eye dairy cream sponge on offer this week
It's Scrambled Eggs
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The title “aisle of plenty” is a play on the phrase “isle of plenty”. It refers to grocery aisles, and indeed there are many references to UK supermarkets in the song.
The instrumental is a kind of reprise on “Dancing With the Moonlit Knight”, “Aisle of Plenty” takes on the same musical and lyrical themes as the first track.
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Island Studios, Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England (August 1973)
Released on
October 13, 1973
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