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13 Feb 07 - 04:41 AM (#1965719) Subject: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Fidjit We're going to a "Bun Fight", Would be nice to have a song or two about cakes. Anyone. Chas |
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13 Feb 07 - 06:25 AM (#1965804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Mr Happy ..........someone left the cake out in the rain?? |
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13 Feb 07 - 06:53 AM (#1965823) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Scrump "Pat a cake, pat a cake, baker's man" springs to mind. How about "Bonnie Dundee", or "Angel"? Or "Have some Madeira, M'Dear"? "A Walk In The Black Forest (Gateau)" ? Or anything by Eccles of the Goons. :-) |
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13 Feb 07 - 07:16 AM (#1965838) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Mr Happy Hot X buns, Hot X buns One a penny, two a penny Hot X buns |
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13 Feb 07 - 07:41 AM (#1965852) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: oldhippie Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake |
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13 Feb 07 - 07:42 AM (#1965854) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Scrump Is that the same as Mrs Hooligan's Christmas Cake? |
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13 Feb 07 - 08:10 AM (#1965883) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST,Neovo If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake! |
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13 Feb 07 - 08:55 AM (#1965934) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Charley Noble Or maybe the same as "The Wonderful Trinity Cake." "Let 'em eat cake," said the queen when informed that her subjects had no bread to eat. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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13 Feb 07 - 08:59 AM (#1965935) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Scrump It's a shame to waste the cake. |
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13 Feb 07 - 10:44 AM (#1966050) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: eddie1 Plane Wreck at Los Gateaux? Eddie |
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13 Feb 07 - 10:58 AM (#1966068) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST,John Gray in Oz I once had a little dog named Ben, He had nine arseholes - nearly ten, He wouldn't eat bread, And he wouldn't crust, But he ate apple pie, Til he fucking near bust ! JG / FME |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:05 AM (#1966073) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Scrump Anything by Kipling (he made exceedingly good cakes, apparently) |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:08 AM (#1966078) Subject: Lyr Add: CAKEWALK INTO TOWN (Taj Mahal) From: Azizi Here's a song that mentions the cakewalk: by Taj Mahal recording of probably 1972 from various albums listed I had the blues, so bad one time it put my face in a permanent frown You know I'm feeling so much better, I could cakewalk into town Honey, I woke up this mornin' feelin' so good, you know I laid back down again Throw your big leg over me mama, I might not feel this good again My baby, my baby, I do love the way she walks And when my woman gets sleepy, I love the way she baby-talks My work is getting scarce, oh baby, my work it done got hard, I spend my whole day stealin' chickens Honey from the rich folks yard I would love to take a picnic in the country and stay all day I wouldn't do nothing but while my blues away I had the blues so bad one time it put my face in a permanent frown You know I'm feelin' so much better I could cakewalk into town __________ http://www.harptab.com/lyrics/ly5125.shtml |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:12 AM (#1966087) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Scrump The problem with cakewalks is they get all squashed and ruin your socks. |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:12 AM (#1966088) Subject: Lyr Add: GET YOUR BISCUITS IN THE OVEN AND YOUR... From: bobad Since you're going to a "Bun Fight" here's one from the DT: GET YOUR BISCUITS IN THE OVEN AND YOUR BUNS IN THE BED (Kinky Friedman) You uppity women I don't understand Why you gotta go and try to act like a man, But before you make your weekly visit to the shrink You better occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink. CHORUS: Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed That's what I to my baby said, Woman's liberation is a-goin' to your head, Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed. Early ever' mornin' you're out on the street Passin' out pamphlets to ever'one you meet. You gave up your Maidenform for Lent And now the front o' your dress has an air-scoop vent. Ever' single great man that's ever come along Had a little woman always tellin' him he's wrong. Eve said to Adam, "Here's an apple, you hoss" And Delilah defoliated Samson's moss. CHORUS Mean-minded harpies are breakin' all the laws Tearin' up their girdles and a-burnin' up their bras, Now the air is dirty and the sex is clean And your coffee makes my hair turn green. So damn emancipated in your mind and your body, Gonna have to cancel all your lessons in karate. If you can't love a male chauvinist You better cross me off o' your shoppin' list. CHORUS Copyright Kinky Friedman @PI filename[ BISCBUNS RG apr97 |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:36 AM (#1966121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: open mike The birthday song sung by John McCutcheon is called "Cut The Cake" also Lou and Peter Berryman have a song Orange Cocoa Cake , which contains the recipe. |
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13 Feb 07 - 02:13 PM (#1966314) Subject: Lyr. Add: TRINITY CAKE (Trad. Newfoundland) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Couldn't find this Newfoundland favorite in Mudcat. Lyr. Add: TRINITY CAKE (Trad. Newfoundland) 1. As I leaned o'er the rail of the Eagle The letter boy brought unto me A little gilt-edged invitation Saying the girls want you over to tea. Sure I knew the O'Hooligans sent it And I went just for old friendship's sake And the first thing they gave me to tackle Was a slice of the Trinity Cake. 2. There were bird calls, flutes and mouth organs, With bundles of double edged files, Covers of clergymen's forgers, And pieces of broken bass voiles. Blue lights and petticoat jumpers That would build up a fine stomach ache For 'twould kill a man twice, after eating a slice Of this wonderful Trinity Cake. 3. Mrs. Hooligan, proud as a peacock, Kept smiling and blinking away While her daughter, Johanna, a spinster, Was helping the boys to the tay. There was everything on the table That a man or a woman could take And my eyes nearly burst from their sockets For a taste of the Trinity Cake. 4. Ellen Reardigan wanted to taste it And she struggled near ready to bust Two sealers attacked it with hand-spikes To try to remove the top crust. Then McCarthy went out for a hatchet And Flannigan grabbed an old saw The cake was enough by the powers To paralyze any man's jaw. 5. McCarthy complained of his stomach And Morgan felt bad in the head And Hogan crawled near the melodion And fervently wished he was dead; And Flannigan grabbed the accordion And there he did wiggle and shake And all of them swore they were poisoned or more From eating this wonderful cake. 6. There were glass eyes, bull's eyes and fresh butter Lamp wicks and liniment too Pastry as hard as a shutter That a billy'goat's jaw couldn't chew; Tobacco and whiskers of crackies That would give you the fever and ache You'd crack off from the knees if you happened to sneeze After eating the Trinity Cake. The Seventh Edition of Newfoundland Songs, nd, Compliments of Bennett Brewing Company Limited, p. 23. Words from Gerald S. Doyle Ltd. "The Gerald S. Doyle Song Book." A variety of Christmas fruit cake? |
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13 Feb 07 - 04:55 PM (#1966508) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Azizi Speaking of fruit cake, Scrump mentioned this thread on the Songs About Feet thread, and I provided a link to a whole 'nuther thread. But I turned around and posted this link too. And btw {to Scrump and anyone else that doubts me}, I dance a clean version of the cakewalk and not a dirty version. :o) |
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13 Feb 07 - 05:53 PM (#1966568) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Georgiansilver Cake a little bit of my heart now baby. Baby can I cake you home. I just can't cake it any more. I'll do whatever it cakes love. |
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13 Feb 07 - 06:02 PM (#1966583) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Bernard Bonnie Dundee? |
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13 Feb 07 - 06:24 PM (#1966617) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Azizi Well, if you ask me "Cake A Little Bit Of My Heart Now Baby" is too sugary sweet. It needs some spicing up. |
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13 Feb 07 - 06:44 PM (#1966649) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: NightWing Somebody mentioned a cakewalk. Reminded me of Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Congo" and Chris Hayden's answer song "Kongo Groove". Neither has anything to do with cakes per se, but great poems! BB, NightWing |
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13 Feb 07 - 07:08 PM (#1966675) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: The Fooles Troupe ""Let 'em eat cake," said the queen when informed that her subjects had no bread to eat." Actually, she allegedly actually said (- in french! - but some translaters got it wrong) "Let them eat brioche"... but I doubt that many would know the difference.... |
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13 Feb 07 - 07:19 PM (#1966685) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Q (Frank Staplin) She could have said (ugh) bagels. It was Rousseau who wrote it in 1766. The Antoinette attribution is fakelore. |
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13 Feb 07 - 07:51 PM (#1966719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Azizi Speaking of cake, here's one of the first songs many English speaking children learn: Pat-a-cake Pat-a-cake Baker's man Roll it and pat it and mark it with "B" And put it in the oven for Baby and me |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:36 PM (#1966936) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Fred Maslan Shoo fly pie And apple pan-dowdy Makes my eyes light up And my tummy go howdy Shoo fly pie And apple pan-dowdy I never get enough of that wonderful stuff Not sure what apple pan-dowdy is but I always imagined some kin of apple cake or apple crisp. |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:45 PM (#1966946) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Fred Maslan "If I knew you were coming I'd a baked a cake." Popular song from the forties? |
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14 Feb 07 - 02:27 AM (#1967020) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Big Al Whittle If you go to Betty's Tea Room in Harrogate, don't have the Brioche. Brioche = piece of toast, in chocolate sauce, cubic inch of ice cream. |
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14 Feb 07 - 06:11 AM (#1967143) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: The Fooles Troupe "Let them eat cake!" is the usual translation of "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", misattributed to Marie Antoinette. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brioche is a light but rich French bread or cake made with a yeast dough enriched with eggs, milk, and butter. The crust is glazed before baking and turns a deep golden brown. The crumb is delicate and pale yellow in colour. In Paris, it is traditionally baked in a fluted tin with a smaller ball of dough placed on top, either as buns or as one large loaf, but other shapes and preparations are traditional in different parts of France. It is also served in ring-shaped and hexagonal loaves. One common variation is to add pralines to the bread. The word brioche first appeared in print in 1404, and this bread is believed to have sprung from a traditional Norman recipe. It is often served as a pastry or as the basis of a dessert, with many local variations in added ingredients, fillings and toppings. It is also used with savoury preparations, particularly with foie gras, and is used in some meat dishes. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his 1783 autobiography Confessions, relates that "a great princess" is said to have advised, with regard to starving peasants, "S'ils n'ont plus de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche", commonly translated as "If they have no bread, let them eat cake". This saying is commonly misattributed to Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI; it has been speculated that he was actually referring to Maria Theresa of Spain, the wife of Louis XIV, or various other aristocrats. Braided brioche (brioche tressée) is similar to challah, a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish braided bread eaten on special religious occasions. Wiki |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:06 AM (#1967298) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Charley Noble "Four and twenty blackbirds baked into a pie" "The Queen was in her parlor eating bread and honey, The King was in the parlormaid and she was in the money..." "Pie in the Sky (That's a Lie!)" "If you've never been the lover Of the landlady's daughter Then you can't have another Piece of pie. " "Oh, the fleas all held me down while the cheesecake scarrped(?) around In that all-go-hungry hash house where I board." We're running out of cake songs in this thread and there's hardly a crumb left. I guess you just can't have your cake and eat it too. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:20 AM (#1967316) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Scrump If you go to Betty's Tea Room in Harrogate, don't have the Brioche Why not, WLD? What's wrong with Betty's brioche? Haven't been to Betty's for ages... there's one in York too IIRC? |
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14 Feb 07 - 11:17 AM (#1967464) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Flash Company How about 'You ought to bake a sunshine cake' Bing used to sing it, but I can only recall bits of the lyric, Well it's not from a recipe book, And yuo don't have to be a good cook, Or run to the oven and look, It's a simple dish, all you do is wish. Oh. and regarding those blackbirds. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, When the pi was opened the shrivelled birds just sat, Saying 'Alright, a joke's a joke what silly sod did that! (Richard Digance) FC |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:03 PM (#1967527) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Fidjit Crumbs! Well who'd have thought that this when it came out of the oven would have turned out so tasty? Thanks everyone. Lots of nice nibbles here for everyone. But I did say it was a "Bun Fight", which in Cockney means a party. So. What do we drink with cake?? Chas |
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14 Feb 07 - 02:00 PM (#1967631) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Georgiansilver Been to Bettys in York many times and the brioche there is fine..what's wrong the the brioche in Harrogate? |
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15 Feb 07 - 08:35 AM (#1968479) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Azizi Theres a place on Mars where the ladies smoke cigars every puff they make is enough to kill a snake when the snake is dead you put roses on his head when the roses die you put diamonds in his eyes when the diamonds break then it's time to bake a cake when the cake is done it is 1991 http://blog.oftheoctopuses.com/000518.php |
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15 Feb 07 - 11:37 AM (#1968684) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST Try A Soul Cake - Watersons We've been eating parkin - Oldham Tinkers |
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15 Feb 07 - 08:27 PM (#1969193) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Charley Noble From "Froggie Went A-Courtin'": Next to come was a big black snake.... He ate up all the wedding cake.... Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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15 Feb 07 - 08:34 PM (#1969196) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Charley Noble And from "Away With Rum" We never eat fruit cake because it has rum, And one little taste turns a man to a bum; Oh, can you imagine a more sorry sight Than a man eating fruit cake until he gets tight! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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16 Feb 07 - 05:38 PM (#1970149) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Fidjit Yes Charley And I sat down and played my concertina. Chas |
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17 Feb 07 - 01:55 PM (#1970825) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Herga Kitty Granville's Mother's mince pies..... on the new Les Sullivan CD, Echoes from Lowlands! Kitty |
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17 Feb 07 - 03:06 PM (#1970883) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: dick greenhaus i can only assume that whoever's looking has tried a search for "cake" in DigiTrad.Also "pie" and "cookie". There are lots. |
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18 Feb 07 - 05:37 PM (#1971931) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Jim Dixon Songs already posted at Mudcat: PANCAKE RECIPE (John Kellermann) CUT THE CAKE (Tina Liza Jones) CUP CAKES (Charley Drew) JENNY GET YOUR OATCAKES DONE (there are related versions in the same thread) ORANGE COCOA CAKE (Lou & Peter Berryman) MISS FOGARTY'S CHRISTMAS CAKE IT'S A PITY TO WASTE THE CAKE |
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19 Feb 07 - 05:12 AM (#1972268) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Fidjit CUP CAKES (Charley Drew) Certainly the best one so far. Or am I reading between the lines? Thanks everyone, we're having lots of fun. Chas |
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19 Feb 07 - 03:06 PM (#1972784) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST,Dr J Snake Baked A Hoecake - Jody Stecher Hoe Cakes Baking - Woody & Cisco How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? - Cisco Pie Song - ? I Want Some of Your Pie - Blind Boy Fuller Fried Pie Blues - Curley Weaver I suspect the BBF one does not refer to the strictly edible kind. DocJ |
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19 Feb 07 - 03:58 PM (#1972833) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Cool Beans At weddings in New York in the 1960s they used to sing "The bride cuts the cake" to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell." Stupid, huh? |
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17 Mar 11 - 11:48 PM (#3116210) Subject: Lyr Add: IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMING I'D'VE BAKED... From: Jim Dixon You can hear this recording at The Internet Archive: IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMING I'D'VE BAKED A CAKE Words & music by Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, Clem Watts, ©1950 As sung by Gracie Fields, 1950. If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake, Baked a cake, baked a cake. If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake. Howjadoo, howjadoo, howjadoo? Had you dropped me a letter, I'd have hired a band, The grandest band in the land. Had you dropped me a letter, I'd have hired a band And spread the welcome mat for you. Now I don't know where you came from, 'cause I don't know where you've been, But it really doesn't matter. Grab a chair and fill your platter And dig, dig, dig right in. If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake, Hired a band, goodness sake! If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake. Howjadoo, howjadoo, howjadoo, Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker man. Bake a cake as quick as you can, Plenty of cream an' sugar and ice, Nuts an' raisins an' honey an' spice. Had you dropped me a letter, I'd have hired a band, Grandest band in the land. Had you dropped me a letter, I'd have hired a band And spread the welcome mat for you. If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake, Baked a cake, baked a cake. If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake. Howjadoo, howjadoo, howjadoo? Had you dropped me a letter, I'd have hired a hall, Great big hall, band an' all. Had you dropped me a letter, I'd have hired a hall And spread the welcome mat for you. Now I don't know where you came from, 'cause I don't know where you've been, But it really doesn't matter. Grab a chair and fill your platter And dig, dig, dig right in. If I knew you were comin' I'd have kept the pot, Coffee pot, nice an' hot. If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake, Howjadoo, howjadoo, howjadoo? (Howjadoo, howjadoo, howjadoo?) Howjadoo, howjadoo, howjadoo? [According to Billboard, several artists had releases of this song in the US in 1950: Eileen Barton and the New Yorkers, Georgia Gibbs with Max Kaminsky's Dixielanders, Ethel Merman & Ray Bolger, Benny Strong, Al Trace & His Orchestra, The Fontane Sisters with the Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra, Art Mooney & His Orchestra, L. Polk with S. Martin's Orchestra, and Eve Young with The Homesteaders. In the UK, there was Gracie Fields (maybe more, but I don't have any source comparable to Billboard for the UK). [I have found articles where this song was cited as an example of bad grammar. Of course, proper grammar would be: "If I had known you were coming...."] |
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18 Mar 11 - 08:43 AM (#3116381) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST,Alan Whittle Eclair de Lune |
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12 Jan 13 - 07:03 AM (#3464924) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST,Sanjay Sircar Re "If I knew you were comin', I'd have baked a cake" (a) which might deserve a separate thread of its own in this forum, crossposted with this one = (b) if I mistake not, Edmund White _A Boy's Own Story_ remembers it as "If I'd a-known you were comin'" (which is indeed grammatical, in that I'd-a = "I had"), cites Rosemary Clooney, and uses it as a "period marker" for the time... (c) the small additions to various versions equate to the equivalent of folk mutation (here "elaboration") (d) apart from the male parody of female speaker form by Crosby/Hope, which rescues masculinity by adding a seven course meal of horse, and one speaker calling the other a "moose", a commemt on one of the youtube postings correctly notes that this song [like "Swinging' on a Star" which got much parody in a film "Christmas special", including "L'Amour is an actress who gets reimbursed"] was made for parody (and has, according to taste, a clever/obscene one with a reference to oral sex and hacking for the "howchadu = how-d'you-do" in one of the other postings in that youtube thread)... (e) the appropriation for advertising is interesting, and such a feature of popular songs as they grow older and enter "the [urban folk?] consciousness"... (d) I used to listen to the 78rpm which we had in India (Clooney?) as a child, and *cry* - an aesthetic reaction, I think - because of what obviously struck the infant as its "searing sweetness", what it took to be the eagerness to please of the wifely/motherly/hospitable speaker, and what I think must have been the emotional effect of the minor key... Comments? Sanjay Sircar |
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13 Jan 13 - 03:32 AM (#3465306) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Bert His fingers were as long as the cane in the brake he had no eyes for to see he had no teeth for to eat the hot cake so he had to let the hot cake be. |
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13 Jan 13 - 08:29 PM (#3465734) Subject: Lyr Add: SUNSHINE CAKE (Burke/Van Heusen) From: Jim Dixon SUNSHINE CAKE Words by Johnny Burke; music by James Van Heusen; ©1950. As sung by Frank Sinatra with Paula Kelly, on "Super Hits" and "The Columbia Years (1943-1952): The Complete Recordings" [a] We ought to bake a sunshine cake. It does more good than a big thick steak. Start with a tablespoon of trouble, Then add a smile and let it bubble up. We ought to bake a sunshine cake. It isn't really so hard to make: Fresh tears, a pound or two pleasure, Kind words; you needn't use a measure cup. [b] It's not from a recipe book. You don't have to be a good cook, Or run to the oven and look. With such a simple dish, All you do is wish, So why not bake a sunshine cake? Of course, it may keep your dreams awake. Friends say there's nothin' like the flavor. Don't wait to do your friends a favor, And for goodness' sake, Let's bake a sunshine cake. [c] It's got vitamins A, vitamins B, Vitamins L-O-V-E. If you're fat, it's for that. If you're thin, stuff it in. What's wrong if you get a double grin? We ought to bake a sunshine cake. REPEAT [b]. [The performance by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards is very similar, but with added patter. There is another recording by Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby] |
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14 Jan 13 - 12:31 PM (#3465978) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: GUEST hot cross buns? |
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14 Jan 13 - 02:12 PM (#3466022) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Jack Campin Whip Jamboree ..."Jenny get your oatcakes done" |
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14 Jan 13 - 07:46 PM (#3466205) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Genie "Candy And Cake" - pop song from the late '40s or early '50s, recorded by Mindy Carson. "Candy and cake, candy and cake, My honey's as sweet a treat as eating candy and cake. Sugar and spice, everything nice, And kissing him once ain't near as sweet as kissing him twice." That's all I can remember of the lyrics at the moment. |
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15 Jan 13 - 08:49 AM (#3466397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about cakes From: Long Firm Freddie Found this on a CD called "They Played the Hackney Empire": Cut Yourself a Little Piece of Cake - The Two Leslies We are members of a family that likes to live and laugh The whole hog it has got to be, we don't do things by half We always try to make things bright, our motto is good cheer And any time of day or night, this sort of thing you'll hear: Come along and see us at our little flat Happiness is what we want to make Wipe your little tootsies on the front door mat And cut yourself a little piece of cake Come along and have a cup of tea with us Anything you want just simply take You'll be quite at home we never make a fuss So cut yourself a little piece of cake Ma likes a little bit, Pa likes a little bit, Kids like a little bit too… I like a little bit, you like a little bit, We all like a little bit we do do do… We'll be full of jollity and real good cheer, And we want to give you all a break Hang your hat and coat upon the chandelier And cut yourself a little piece of cake Come along and see us at our little flat Happiness is what we want to make Leave a little pattern on the front door mat And cut yourself a little piece of cake Now come along and have a little drink with us Anything you want just simply take There's another gallon coming on the local bus So cut yourself a little piece of cake Ma likes a little drink, Pa likes a little drink, The kids like a little drink too… I like a little drink, you like a little drink, We all like a little drink we do do do… You'll be full of jollity and real good beer Think of all the things that you can break When you've finished fighting hand me back my ear And cut yourself a little piece of cake It's Auntie Minnie's birthday, what d'yer think of that? And some whoopee she is going to make So wipe your little tootsies on the old tomcat And cut yourself a little piece of cake And she's going to give you all some birthday cake A special cake the baker's had to bake And it's there for any one of you to take So cut yourself a little piece of cake Ma tries a little bit, Pa tries a little bit, Kids try a little bit sure… I try a little bit, you try a little bit, The dog gave his portion to the hens next door… There's a candle on the cake for each birthday Now they're all alight I want a break One or two have fainted from the heat they say But cut yourself a little piece of cake Tiddleypush! LFF |