From the musical “Look Who’s Here”, 1912
Words by Paul West
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Here’s a lovely apple pie I baked with my own hand
Thank you! I will eat it if it kills me
Here’s a batch of doughnuts, Sir
I hope you’ll find them grand
Thank you! With the darkest fear it fills me
Here’s a pan of biscuits, Sir
I trust you’ll find them light
Here’s a little pound cake, too
I hope I made it right
Here’s a little loaf of bread
And here’s a cherry pie
Everything was made for you
To eat it won’t you try
Apple pie, and cheery pie
Your biscuits and your Cake
Ladies though ’tis fatal
I will try them for your sake
And I this Angel cake for you have made
I must refuse it, I’m afraid
Ah, do not think me rude
The only food that love may pro per deem
Before me lies, look in my eyes
‘Tis Peaches and Cream
For the only food of love, dear
Is the blush on your cheeks I see
Kissed by the Sun above, dear
‘Tis blooming all for me
And the milk-white dimpled chin, dear
That tempts me with its gleam
I want but this, one hungry kiss
From you my Peaches and Cream
For the only food of love, dear
Is the bloom on your cheeks I see
Kissed by the Sun above, dear
‘Tis blooming all for me
And the milk-white dimpled chin, dear
That tempts me with its gleam
I want but this, one hungry kiss
From you my Peaches and Cream