The Catey Song

The guests at the year's Cateys were treated to a song especially written for the occasion by hosts Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern, here's the lyrics in full…

The Catey Song

Ever since we bought the Rose and Crown we've only one ambition

To show our pub's the best pub, and achieve some recognition

We've offered real ale, egg and chips and home cooked local dinner

And we prayed for Egon Ronay while we dreaded Michael Winner

All we want to before our life is through

All we want to do is win a Catey

We did every sort of cooking from Escoffier to Islamic

We did tapas, we did Snappers, all drizzled with Balsamic

But the Catey for best restaurant evaded us again

So we thought we'd take the Rose and Crown and sell it to a chain

All we want to do before our life is through

All we want to do is win a Catey

At the Jerkin and the Firkin we sell Stella by the flagon

And the food all comes from Leicester in an Eddie Stobart wagon

We sell Archer's and Bacardi from eleven ‘til eleven

But we'll ask you for I.D. if we suspect you're under seven

All we want to do before our life is through

All we want to do is win a Catey

We were called the Clinton Arms the year the Yankees bought us out

Then they sold out to Nomura, the Japanese big bank

They named us the Pearl Harbour and we very nearly sank

But we've bought the business back now - we're the Rose and Crown once more

We have matches in a brick and we have sawdust on the floor

And we've hired the very best to make sure this is our big night

Gordon Ramsay's in the kitchen beating up Marco Pierre White

We are ready for you Catey - come on in , I'll take your coat

The red wine jus is waiting underneath the chargrilled goat

This year at last I'll go and get my prize at Grosvenor House

I am goin gto win a Catey - oh bugger, there's a mouse

All we want to do before our life is through

Even though it takes me 'til I'm eighty

All we want to do is win a Catey