The Great Meat Pie

The great meat pie was a tidy size
And it took a week to make it
A day to carry it to the shop
And just a week to bake it
And if you'd seen it
I'll be bound
Your wonder you'd scarce govern

They were forced to break the front wall down
to get it in the oven
It too full thirty sacks of flour
It's a fact now that I utter
Three hundred pails of water, too
And a hundred tubs of butter
The crust was nearly seven feet thick
You couldn't easily bruise it
And the rolling pin was such a size

It took ten men to use it
There were twenty-five spareribs of pork
I'm sure I'm not mistaken
With two and thirty hams for York
And twenty sides of bacon
The pie was made by fifty cooks
And all of them first raters
And then they filled up all the nooks
with a ton of kidney 'taters