I think the original request was answered with "I Like Molasses" above. But as "Molasses, Molasses (It's Icky Sticky Goo)" has been mentioned; here it is, with story attached.

The song was composed by Larry Clinton, 1950 and released in 1950 by Lenny Carson and the Whiz Kids on the Savoy subsidiary Discovery. According to the great "Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else" blog at http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html, "Molasses, Molasses (It's Icky Sticky Goo)" features a sped-up group of adult singers masquerading as a children's chorus ... the adult voices somehow take on [a] slightly creepy quality. Your ears know something is wrong--the voices are too perfect, pitch-wise, and too robotic. And too sped-up-sounding. ... I wonder if we've discovered the first fake-speed children's chorus in disc history? ... This is a question that cries out to be answered."

Spike Jones & His City Slickers recorded it with additional lyrics by Eddie Maxwell, also apparently using the speed-up technique so it sounds like children singing. The Jones version can be heard at http://youtube.com/watch?v=LIFAAYqdASQ, from which the following words come.

A couple of lines aren't clear (to me at least, I'm in a noisy environment today), and I'd appreciate help in straightening them out from anyone who'll give a listen to the YouTube version.

Thanks, Bob


MOLASSES, MOLASSES (IT'S ICKY STICKY GOO)
By Larry Clinton, 1950.

1. There was a man named Fred who loved to stay in bed,
When by and by they wondered why, they found out he was dead,

CHORUS: Molasses! Molasses! That icky sticky goo!
Molasses! Molasses! It always sticks to you.

2. A man lost his (dog?) Pete, and passed him as a treat? [?on the street]
So for a while you'll see his smile on someone else's feet.

3. There was a man named Matt who tried to milk a cow,
He never knew it was a bull. It doesn't matter now.

4. A trombone man named Moore could follow any score,
But now he's done, he followed one into a revolving door.

5. I dreamed of shredded wheat, I ate and ate till dawn,
When I awoke it was no joke, my mattress was half gone.

6. A (silver?) player named Jeff was famous at the (mat?)
But with Spike Jones his (? stones), it was something that he et.

7. One night I nearly froze without my heavy clothes,
(Sneezes) I'm breathing through the nose. (sneeze) nose.

8. You ought to learn this song without a bit of fuss,
In other words, be like the birds, and sing along with us.