Potato - We don't care what thay look like we'll eat them

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Potato

Cheryl Wheeler

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This song is available on Bon Appetit! Musical Food Fun.

 

 

They're red, they're white, they're brown

They get that way underground

There can't be much to do

So now they have blue ones too

We don't care what thay look like we'll eat them

Any way they can fit on our plate

Every way we can conjure to heat them

We're delighted and think they're just great

Refrain

Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh--

Tay toe poh Tay toe poh Tay toe poh Tay--

Toe poh tay Toe poh tay Toe poh tay Toe--

Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh tay toe!

Sometimes we ditch the skin

To eat what it's holding in

Sometimes we'd rather please

Have just the outside with cheese

They have eyes but they do not have faces

I don't know if their feelings get hurt

By just hanging around in dark places

Where that only can stare at the dirt

Refrain

I guess the use is scant

For other parts of the plant

But that which grows in view

Is eating potato too

I imagine them under their acres

Out in Idaho and up in Maine

Maybe wondering if they'll be bakers

Or knishes or latkes or plain

Refrain

This song is available on

Bon Appetit! Musical Food Fun.

 

 

Many thanks to Cheryl Wheeler for permission to publish these lyrics.

Cheryl Wheeler. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Lyrics may be reproduced for classroom use only.

This song appears on Cheryl's CD " Sylvia Hotel. "

Special thanks to Martha Rose for letting us know about this funny song.

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