Req:Cornbread Molasses & Sassafras Tea R&LWilliams

Subject: Lyr Req: Cornbread Molasses and Sassafras Tea R&L
From: MickyMan
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 09:05 PM

Robin and Linda Williams did a 1980s song with this recurring chorus..... Anybody know where I can get words .... etc????
   Cornbread Molasses and Sassafras tea
These little things mean the world to me
Open up your door, Honey won't you please,
Give me cornbread molasses and sassafras tea.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cornbread Molasses and Sassafras Tea R&L
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 09:24 PM

Hmmm. Well, the menu choice fits the Virginia girls family of songs.

Subject: RE: Req:Cornbread Molasses & Sassafras Tea R&LWilliams
From: MickyMan
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 08:14 AM

If my recollection is correct, it doesn't go down the "don't you marry those %%#$@$$#@# boys rabbit hole.   My memory says that it's just about how wonderful CBM&ST is!    I have a R&LW songbook somewhere in the house, but I can't retrieve it!

Subject: RE: Req:Cornbread Molasses & Sassafras Tea R&LWilliams
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 10:03 PM

Robin Williams and I co-wrote this many years ago, so many years ago that I've forgotten the lyrics, which you may be able to find on the Robin & Linda website. It was a modest rewrite, basically album filler, of "The Arkansas Sheik," recorded by Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen in 1928. The New Lost City Ramblers later covered it on their Remembrance of Things To Come album.

I'd encourage the inquirer to look up the original. It's better.

Subject: RE: Req:Cornbread Molasses & Sassafras Tea R&LWilliams
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 11:19 AM

https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/c/cornbreadlassesandsassafrastea.html