After Noel Gallagher’s musician friend Peter “Digsy” Dreary started singing nonsensical things about having lasagna for tea, he promptly inspired a romantic vignette about asking a girl out, which Digsy wound up hating, retaliating with another called “Noel’s Nose”.
[Verse 1]
What a life it would be
If you could come to mine for tea
I'll pick you up at half past three
We'll have lasagna
I'll treat you like a queen
I'll give you strawberries and cream
Then your friends will all go green
For my lasagna
[Chorus]
These could be the best days of our lives
But I don't think we've been living very wise
Oh no, no
[Verse 2]
What a life it would be
If you could come to mine for tea
I'll pick you up at half past three
We'll have lasagna
[Chorus]
These could be the best days of our lives
But I don't think we've been living very wise
Oh no, no
[Verse 2]
What a life it would be
If you could come to mine for tea
I'll pick you up at half past three
We'll have lasagna
[Outro]
I'll treat you like a queen
I'll give you strawberries and cream
Then your friends will all go green
Then your friends will all go green
Then your friends will all go green
For my lasagna
Digsy’s Dinner was written by Noel Gallagher.
Digsy’s Dinner was produced by Oasis & Mark Coyle.
Oasis released Digsy’s Dinner on Mon Aug 29 1994.
Noel on the song:
If you wrote ‘Digsy’s Dinner’ now, The Guardian or the music papers would destroy you. It’s a song about going to someone’s house for lasagne – you only write songs like that when you’re free of inhibitions.
Alan McGee on the song:
I think it was a piss-take of Blur. I don’t thi...