A tribute to school dinners

Mackem Folk Singer Dave Murray has looked back on the days of school meals - carrots, cabbage, beef stew included.

Transcript

00:00He's a funny song I'm gonna sing for you, about the days we spent in school.

00:11Standing in the queue in the pouring rain, singing along to this refrain.

00:18School dinners, the old boy ate them school dinners.

00:24You know, we got them for nowt, but you know.

00:30Then your kid would always say, we paid for ours to do.

00:37Well we would laugh and we would shout, we're getting ours just for nowt.

00:44School dinners, the old boy ate them school dinners.

00:52You know what?

00:55I'd be standing in the queue next day at all done.

00:59Licking his lips from thunder, every one.

01:02A spotty dick, potato and stew, one map was all lick.

01:08Our lips to school dinners, the old boy ate them school dinners.