Hello, gargoyle. As I noted in my 23 Sep 09 - 07:05 PM post, Berlin's 1914 song which included the peaches verse was not published until after shortly after his death in 1988.

Yet there are two Blues songs that included that verse in 1923. How did that happen?


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http://ask.metafilter.com/22973/Sex-Songs-Sisguised-as-Food


The request posed on this page was:

MusicFilter: I am looking for songs of any genre that use food as a metaphor for sex. The two songs that I could come up with are Mississippi John Hurt's Candyman and Van Halen's Ice Cream Man. Thanks so much.
posted by captainscared to media & arts (59 comments total)


See this response (which is unrelated to who coined the "peaches" verse:


"'Let My Peaches Be' by Papa Charlie's Boys / "Rollin' and Tumblin'" by Elmore James, covered by Eric Clapton / "Matchbox" by The Beatles et al. (all of those w. some variant of "if you dont' want none o' my peaches baby, please don't shake my tree")