A book of the music and lyrics of British duo, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. It contains an undated introduction by Donald Swann and the 1990s version also contains a further foreword from Claudia Flanders and Alison Swann written in 1996, and a note from Leon Berger about changes in the newer edition. There is an Afterword which is a previously unpublished poem/lyric by Michael Flanders.

The music in the book is for piano.

The songs in this book are:

• In the Bath
  
• Design for Living
  
• Misalliance
  
• The Gas-Man Cometh
  
• A Song of the Weather
  
• Pillar to Post
  
• Rain on the Plage
  
• Motor Perpetuo
  
• Slow Train
  
• A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus)
  
• Last of the Line
  
• Twenty Tons of TNT
  
• The Reluctant Cannibal
  
• P-P-B-B-D
  
• Budget Song
  
• Ballad for the Rich
  
• All Gall
  
• Philological Waltz (Tonga)
  
• Song of Patriotic Prejudice
  
• The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations
  
• The Album
  
• Ill Wind
  
• Guide to Britten
  
• Song of Reproduction
  
• Bedstead Men
  
• Excelsior
  
• Vanessa
  
• Twice Shy
  
• Madeira, M'dear?
  
• The Armadillo
  
• The Hippopotamus
  
• The Ostrich
  
• The Elephant
  
• The Gnu
  
• The Rhinoceros
  
• The Sloth
  
• The Spider
  
• The Wild Boar
  
• The Whale (Mopy Dick)
  
• The Warthog
  
• The Wompom