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Your support makes all the difference.Scottish Opera has begun a five-month `opera and chips' programme by performing `The Magic Flute' at a Harry Ramsden's fish restaurant in Edinburgh
Opera and chips
Steamy in the restaurant
The evening's getting colder
They settled down to haddock
For Tristan and Isolde
As nobs came in
The yobs slouched out
Amidst the usual banter
The lead contralto
Guzzled down
A can of luke-warm Fanta
The sizzle of the fryer
A bleeping from the till
A humming from the freezer
Then Barber of Seville
The mushy peas went slushy
The cod got over-fried
A punter ordered scampi
And got The Bartered Bride
Soprano took a top note
A frequency too far
Which rattled forks on tables
And broke the gherkin jar
Someone squeezed a lemon
And Siegfried pursed his lips
Brunhilde made her entrance
Abandoning her chips
The manager enraptured
The customers all smiles
While Mozart and Puccini
Bounced off the grouted tiles
An ultraviolet gadget
Electrocuted flies
As people took the opera
Back from the suits and ties
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