Come To The Supermarket (In Old Peking) (Live at the Bon Soir, Greenwich Village, NYC - Nov. 5, 1962)

[sung]

If you want a fancy fan

Or a turkey born in turkey-stan

Or a slave that's awfully African

Or a teapot, early Ming

Come to the supermarket in Old Peking

Well, if you want to buy a kite

Or a pup to keep you up at night

Or a dwarf who used to know Snow White

Or a frog who loves to sing

Come to the supermarket in Old Peking

They have sunflower cakes, moonbeam cakes

Gizzard cakes, lizard cakes

Pickled eels, pickle snakes

Fit for any king

If you want a bust of jade

Or an egg that's more or less decayed

Or in case you care to meet a maid

For a nice but naughty fling

Come to the supеrmarket

If you come on a turtle, you can park it

So comе to the supermarket and see Peking

If you want a gong to beat

Or a rickshaw with a sassy seat

Or a painting slightly indiscreet

That is simply riveting

Come to the supermarket in Old Peking

Well, if you want some calico

Or a gentle water buffalo

Or a glow worm guaranteed to glow

Or a cloak inclined to cling

[spoken]

Breathe!

[sung]

Come to the supermarket in Old Peking

They have bird's-nest soup, seaweed soup

Noodle soup, poodle soup

Talking crows with the croup

Almost anything

If you want to buy a saw

Or a fish delicious when it's raw

Or a pill to kill your mother-in-law

Or a bee without a sting

Come to the supermarket

If you come on a penguin, you can park it

So come to the supermarket

If you come on a boa, you can park it

So come to the supermarket in Old Peking!