Gene Sullivan sings PLEASE PASS THE BISCUITS on YouTube.

Andre Williams sings PLEASE PASS THE BISCUITS on YouTube. His style is completely different. There is no singing, only spoken words. He has almost entirely eliminated rhythm and rhyme. The words and dialect are his own. The "lines" and "verses" are of irregular length. The accompanying music is jazzy blues. There are ambient sounds of dinner-table conversation and the clicking of silverware.


PLEASE PASS THE BISCUITS
As performed by Andre Williams

'Scuse me. 'Scuse me, please. Scuse me,
But will you please pass the biscuits down, please?
Will you pass the biscuits down, please?

I can't understand it. I go out an' work an' slave an' all my kinfolks do is play.
Look at Uncle John down thar.
He's had fo' biscuits already. No wonder he got fo' chins.
An' there's Aint Lucy down at the other en'.
I thought she was on a diet.
If she ain't had eight biscuits, she ain't had none. [pronounced "nan"]

'Scuse me, Uncle Bill, but will you please pass the biscuits, please?
Will you pass the biscuits, please?

Them biscuits sho' is disappearin' fast.
I wish they would jus' look down this way.
Maybe I can get Mary's attention.

Say, Mary! Say, Mary! Huh, will you please pass the biscuits, please?

Th'only time they come down here is for weddin's, funerals, an' receptions.
You take ol' Cousin Jeff. I ain't seen him in two years,
An' he don't even know I'm here. All he see is them biscuits.
I don't want to reach over Betty 'cause Gran'ma says that's ill-mannered, she said,
But this meat ain't no good without no bread.

Say, will you pass the biscuits, please?
Will you please pass the biscuits, please?

I got enough 'taters an' some yella gravy.
I sho' wish they would just pass one o' them biscuits.
Look at 'em:
Almost finished an' I ain't even started eatin' yet.

Say, will you pass the biscuits, please?
Say, will you please pass the biscuits, please?

I don't know. Why did Emma put them biscuits down at the other en' o' the table?

Hey, will you pass the biscuits, please?
Will you please pass the biscuits, please?

Now there's one mo' biscuit left.
Maybe if I get up an' walk down the other end o' the table, I might just have a—
Pardon me. 'Scuse me. 'Scuse me, please. 'Scuse me, please.
Say, no! Wait! Wait, Uncle Jeff! Wait! Wait! Please! Wait!
No! Well, I be doggone!
He done ate up the last biscuit.
I wanted the biscuits.