The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73372   Message #3809391
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Sep-16 - 05:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Java Jive (and other coffee & tea songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'D LIKE TO DUNK YOU IN MY COFFEE
I'D LIKE TO DUNK YOU IN MY COFFEE
Words by Lew Brown, music by Harry Akst, ©1934.
As recorded by Freddy Martin.

I'd like to dunk you in my coffee and spread you on my bread,
And I wish that you were in the highball goin' to my head.
Dear, when you sit across the table,
I'm then like the giant in the fable.
Fee fie foe fum!
I'm overcome with a cannibalistic feeling.
I'd like to smother you with mushrooms, mm, and ev'rything.
I claim you'd be a dainty dish to set before a king.
Oh, sweetheart, if I could obtain you,
As part of my daily menu,
I'd like to dunk you in my coffee and spread you on my bread.


There is another recording by Little Jack Little.

This seems to be the chorus only. The catalog entry for this song at Mississippi State University indicates there is a missing verse that begins "I was always going in for ev'ry sort of vitamin"—and maybe more verses.