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 There is an Afterword which is a previously unpublished poem/lyric by Michael Flanders.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