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Thread #100611 Message #2021245
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Apr-07 - 08:16 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Buckwheat Cakes
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Buckwheat Cakes
Possibly not the same song, but there is this:
Catalog data at Indiana University Sheet Music Collections:Title: BUCKWHEAT CAKES
Composer: Taylor, Tell
Composer: Sloop, Fred
Publisher: Jerry Vogel Music Co. Inc.
Place of publication: New York
Date of publication: 1939
Call Number: M1 .D48 Box: 136 Item: 060
Performance Medium: Piano, Voice and Chords
First Line: Ebenezer Wilson was an epicure, and a very funny one
Chorus First Line: Buckwheat cakes, cookin' on the griddle, buckwheat cakes
Genre: Popular song
Subject term: Food
On an album by Doctor Souchon, "Early New Orleans Minstrel Days," he sings these lyrics (taken from a sound sample):Ebenezer Wilson was an epicure, and a very funny one was he.
He never cared for chit'lin's or for turkey hash; he never eat a fricasee.
Ebenezer never cared for chicken pie; he never....
Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport also recorded BUCKWHEAT CAKES. Here's what I have been able to transcribe from several sound samples:[VERSE]...
He never cared for rabbit, neither 'possum.
He never cared for chicken, neither 'coon.
All he wanted you to bring him in, morning, night and noon:
[CHORUS] Buckwheat cakes steaming on the griddle,
Buckwheat cakes, Lordy(?), ain't they fine?
Buckwheat cakes, fried in butter,
Sweeter than the melon on the watermelon vine.
Buckwheat cakes, fry 'em to a ...
Buckwheat cakes, then bring 'em in to me.
You can have ev'rything....