I Like Pie, I Like Cake
But I Like You Best of All
George A. Little, Arthur Sizemore, Larry Shay
Brunswick, 1925
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A romantic people, much given to songs of love. Not sure if this one is aiming to make fun of farm boys or city boys. Well, farm boys, obviously...but how rural could Memphis have been in 1925? Probably songwriters just liked to say "Memphis Town."
The first known lyrical sighting of Homer Simpson. I don't know when it got wedged in the American psyche that we are ignorant, unsophisticated, gluttonous, unromantic slobs, but one thing's for sure: we really love that about us.
Mmmmmm...donuts.
The way to handle women long ago.
Here's a tip from a pip of a lover.
A boy named Henry Brown from Memphis town
Has got a sweetie that he hangs around.
It's a yell when he tells of his love.
I like pie, I like cake
Anything that they bake.
And I like crackers, too.
Broken up in a stew.
I like sweet jelly roll,
I lose all my control
But of all those things, I like you best of all.
I like ma, I like pa
Like our old mule's hee-haw.
Like it down on the farm.
Like the wheat and the corn.
Like the pig in the styJuliet, she never met
If I don't, hope to die.
But of all those things, I like you best of all.
A man like Henry, who could love and pet.
What a hot, hot impossible lover.
Still one gal, Henry's pal
Has only got to call and say, "It's Sal"
Watch him run to his honey and say
I like kraut, milk and jam
Chocolate fudge, sugared ham
Dogs and cats, bunnies [...]
Furnished flats, [...]
I like beans, and round steak
Was it all just a fake?
But of all those things, I like you best of all.
I like towns in the north
New Orleans and so forth. [...]
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I like dogs when they fight
I like mine, 'cause he'll bite
But of all those things, I like you best of all.