First appeared on the CD Double Yodel in 1995. Re-recorded for Love Is The Weirdest of All in 2004.
Click here for actual RECIPE, courtesy of Hershey Kitchens
©1993 Lou & Peter Berryman
Words by Peter, Music by Lou
Hello Joanie this is me say I found
that recipe for
Orange cocoa cake so Joanie get a pencil quick because can
You believe i'm by myself, Al's at work the kids are out
They're playing house all three of them they're all out on the
deck
One half cup unsweetened cocoa,
one half cup of boiling water
Quarter cup of butter and a quarter cup of short'ning, two cups
Sugar, one eighth teaspoon salt, teaspoon of vanilla
One and one half teaspoons baking soda, 'scuze me just a sec
Dave, dear, I'm right over here
Would you like some crackers and baloney
Are you having fun? Don't get too much sun.
Please excuse me, while I talk to Joanie
Two eggs Joanie, David, David, crackers
dear not malted milk balls
In the cupboard Joanie one cup buttermilk or sour milk
One and three fourths cups unsifted ring baloney in the fridge
Unsifted general purpose David did you really check
One and three fourths cups unsifted
general purpose flour Joanie
There I finally got it out. Okay David malted milk balls
Only five though three fourths teaspoon grated orange peel
A quarter teaspoon orange extract uh-oh, 'scuze me just a sec
Liz, Ben, I'm here in the den
Would you like some crackers and baloney
Are you having fun? Don't get too much sun
Please excuse me, while I talk to Joanie
Joanie one more eighth teaspoon
of Lizzie what's the matter dear
Baking soda Joanie. Lizzie, don't hit Benjie that's uncalled for
That's okay Ben Joanie three more tablespoons of buttermilk or
Sour milk oh come here Liz, what's that on your neck
Now don't worry Liz it's only one
real tiny tick someone
David go and get the tweezers, Joanie, maybe in the bathroom
Joanie maybe we should Ben don't cry have one more malted milk
ball
Lizzie, mom'll be right there 'scuze me just a sec
Really gotta go Joan, see about
a tick, then we're
Gonna have a party with the neighborhood kids then
Lizzie has to go to an appointment at eleven an' we're
Takin' Benjie too because he has to buy a costume
He's in a play tomorrow over at
the church
Isn't that tomorrow Benjie, Benjie wheredja go, Lizzie
Isn't Benjie gonna play a piece of pie tomorrow?
I remember now a pumpkin pie
Lizzie can't go, there's a party
in the park for all the
People with pets, well you know she gotta go to that 'n
Daddy gonna take her and the kitty in the Chevy after
That we have to reconnoiter over at the Big Boy
I gotta go Joan, by the way d'ja
ever
Reconsider gettin' married having children of your own
Turn the television down your mother's on the telephone
Call you back Joan, too-da-loo