This love starts with just a tree
And on this tree there is, you see
This little thing that’s called a pod
Which you might think is very odd
And in this pod there are these seeds
Which normally grow trees like weeds
But seeds you see are also beans
and by quite clever artful means
those beans are gathered in a pile
this whole thing can take a while
till people probably not named Jeeves
cover with banana leaves
the beans are left there to ferment
and then the beans are quickly sent
back to the sun to dry and dry
and then they sail or maybe fly
across the world by parcel post
where they begin to roast and roast
in giant cylinders of metal forged
not yet ready to be gorged
the beans thus roasted then get ground
that process makes a fearsome sound
into things that they call nibs
that’s really true, that’s no ad lib
then nibs are crushed into a paste
they use it all, no part they waste
chocolate liquor is what its named
tho there’s no alcohol just the same
then they pour it into molds
eat it now its not just bold
but really really bitter
those chocolate makers they’re no quitters
they then put in a special machine
which does the strangest things you’ve seen
airate and fold and whisk and pound
and then the sugar, in heaps and bounds
is added with some other stuff
soy lecithin to make less rough
cause smooth is gonna get you far
to make the finest chocolate bars
tempered cooled and heated then
then they do it again and again
such a very big labor
to get that very special flavor
and what does all this have to do
with love, and what’s it all to you
well who does not love chocolate bars
Godiva Hershey’s or even Mars
Cadbury’s a British brand
In Switzerland they understand
and Brooklyn out in Williamsburg
go there if you feel the urge
the brothers Mast, with matching beards
obsessed with chocolate, really weird
they sailed it up from Venuzuela
had to pay a lot of sailors
hand crafted on north third street
you go there and it’s really neat
artesinal they call it now
the milk not just from any cow
ive tasted it, its quite sublime
old chocolates’ having quite a time
so now you know from near and far
what really makes a chocolate bar
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