Mother dear did you hear how they're teaching me to do the goose step Father mine just in time you gave me a machine to wash my jeans in the customer is always right the girl is much too young to know the difference The guitar hanging in the hall is calling me in all its magnificence Give my compliments to the chef Give my compliments to the chef Leo sits behind the desk he wanna see the woman cooking gravy Nobody sent no argument and I gotta go and join the Royal Navy Madamazelle you do so well you know the meaning of salvation But the General wants me on the phone and he's alone and needs my consolation Give my compliments to the chef Give my compliments to the chef He's crazy he got his head in a basket She's lazy and you don't understand You know I'm running and you don't wanna hide me I know a woman who's a man is a man One night I was dreaming as I lay on my pillow The train I was riding was ten coaches long And in the village they was looking at freedom In the beginning when I knew it was any old time Any old time Any old time Any old time bad boys don't get no toys and everybody wants to get to heaven The Salvation Army's asking but nobody ever thinks of giving You know I wish I could see yesterday The way I can see tomorrow Go and take a look in a history book It's up to you to mix the stew And when you do Give my compliments to the chef The chef any old time, any old time