[verse] Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Thing, The Appetite of Tyranny, Man Alive, The Flying Inn, What’s Wrong with the World (I am)! [verse] The Everlasting Man, The Ball and the Cross, The Man Who Was Thursday, St. Augustine the Ox The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Crimes of England, need to read that still [chorus] These are the books that Chesterton wrote He wrote enough essays to sink a boat And a whole bunch of poems we've never read We just read The Everlasting Man Again [verse] Tremendous Trifles, All Is Grist, The Uses of Diversity on the list, The Defendant, All Things Considered, As I Was Saying—you get the jist [verse] The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom, The Secret, not as renowned, The Scandal, The Donnington Affair, The Man Who Knew Too Much is also there! [chorus] These are the books that Chesterton wrote He wrote enough essays to sink a boat And a whole bunch of poems we've never read We just read The Everlasting Man Again [verse] The Poet and the Lunatics, Tales of the Long Bow, Did I mention Heretics? The Club of Queer Trades, Magic (a play) The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond, hurray! [verse] A Short History of England, sure The Victorian Age in Literature Charles Dickens, Robert Browning biographies George Bernard Shaw, And Assissi [chorus] These are the books that Chesterton wrote He wrote enough essays to sink a boat And a whole bunch of poems we've never read We just read The Everlasting Man Again [verse] Lepanto, The Ballad of the White Horse, The Wild Knight (oh yes of course), The Coloured Lands, a book of art, man that guy was really smart [bridge] And though it was not written down they say he debated HG wells And he debated other people like George Bernad Shaw as well [chorus] These are the books that Chesterton wrote He wrote enough essays to sink a boat And a whole bunch of poems we've never read We just read The Everlasting Man Again [chorus] These are the books that Chesterton wrote He wrote enough essays to sink a boat And a whole bunch of poems we've never read We just read The Everlasting Man Again
