Lyrics:

Mother dear, did you hear? Oh, they're teaching me to do the goose step?
Father mine, just in time, you give 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 women cooking gravy
Nobody sent no argument and I gotta go and join the Royal Navy
Mademoiselle you do so well, you know the meaning of salvation
But the General wants me on the phone and he's all alone and needs my consolation

Give my compliments to the chef
Give my compliments to the chef

He's crazy, got his head in a basket
She lazy, you don't understand
You know I'm running, you don't wanna hide me
I know a woman who's a man is a man
One night I was dreaming, 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 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 and nobody ever thinks of giving
You know that major sevenths break my bones
I gotta go out and beg and borrow
You know I wish I could see yesterday
The way I can see tomorrow

Go and take a look in a history book
Oh, 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
Any old time
Any old time
Any old time
Any old time
Any old time
Any old time
Any old time
I want to give my compliments...