Transcribed from vocals by Cab Calloway, recorded
December 11, 1947,
From Cab
Calloway and His Orchestra: 1942-1947, Chronological Classics 996,
and
Also found on Cab
Calloway: Are You Hep to the Jive? Columbia Legacy's Rhythm and Soul Series,
CK 57645.
Have a banana, Hannah,
Try the salami, Tommy,
Give with the gravy, Davy,
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
Try a tomato, Plato,
Here's cacciatore, Dorie,
Taste the baloney, Tony,
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
I fix your favorite dishes,
Hopin' this good food fills ya!
Work my hands to the bone in the
kitchen alone,
You better eat if it kills ya!
Pass me a pancake, Mandrake,
Have an hors-d'oeuvre-y, Irvy,
Look in the fendel (?), Mendel,
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
Hannah! Davy! Tommy! Dora! Mandrake!
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
Pastafazoola, Talullah!
Oh, do have a bagel, Fagel,
Now, don't be so bashful, Nashville,
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
Hey, this is a party, Marty,
Here, you get the cherry, Jerry,
Now, look, don't be so picky, Micky,
'Cause everybody eats when they
come to my house!
All of my friends are welcome,
Don't make me coax you, moax you,
Eat the tables, the chairs, the
napkins, who cares?
You gotta eat if it chokes you!
Oh, do have a knish, Nishia,
Pass me the latke, Macky,
Chile con carne for Barney,
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
Face! Buster! Chair! Chops! Fump!
Everybody eats when they come to
my house!
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
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