America’s the land of milk and honey
Australia’s healthy and continually sunny
The living in Sweden is clean and sleek
The food in France is gastronomique
Japan’s got geishas and the fastest train
China’s got oodles of chicken chow mein
If you want noodles you can’t beat Hong Kong’s
Brazilians samba on beaches in thongs
Africa looks to a future exciting
Spain’s got sherry, el sol and bullfighting
Eskimos are tough and used to roughing
Turkey is full of chestnut stuffing
The Belgians invented the Brussels sprout
Germans lieben lederhosen und sauerkraut
Greece abounds in classical ruins
Russia’s violinists play the loveliest tuins
In Bermuda it’s swaying palm trees and foam
In Switzerland it’s gnome sweet gnome
Italian girls make a di fantastic lovers
Danes are mustard under the covers
From old Hawaii to New Nepal
Foreigners seem to have it all
So if everything abroad is as good as they say
Why do we Britons in Britain stay?
The answer is (and I’m sure it’s true)
That all of us want to be near to you