BREAD AND BUTTER WOMAN
(Allan Roberts / Lester Lee)


Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters - 1947
Tony Pastor & His Orch. (vocal: Pastor & The Clooney Sisters) - 1947
Sy Oliver & His Orch. - 1947




ANDREWS SISTERS:
A woman who wants a yacht
A mansion and wine that bubbles
DANNY KAYE:
If she doesn't get the things that she wants
She will give a man plenty trouble

ALL:
Give me a bread and butter woman
Who only wants the simple things
DK:
Give me a bread and butter woman
Who likes her meat and potatoes
AS: Meat and potatoes
DK: Juicy tomatoes
AS: 
Juicy tomatoes
Give him a bread and butter woman

DK:
A woman who talks too much
And spends her time reminiscing
A husband who has a wife like that
He will find his shirts with buttons missing

AS:
Give him a bread and butter woman
I mean the real domestic kind
Give him a bread and butter woman
Who'll even give up her Sundays
DK: Give up her Sundays
AS: To iron your undies
DK: 
To iron your undies
Give me a bread and butter woman

AS:
I am a woman who's fond of cash
You never know how I rate you
The moment your chips are runnin' low
I will run a sale and liquidate you

DK:
Give me a bread and butter woman
Who doesn't care how much you make
Give me a bread and butter woman
Who doesn't ask you for moolah
AS: Ask you for moolah
DK: Just pastafazoola
AS:
Just pastafazoola
Give him a bread and butter woman

AS:
A woman who likes to dine
On dinners of plenty courses
A fellow who feeds a girl like that
DK: He is better off
AS: How?
DK: Playing the horses

ALL:
Give me a bread and butter woman
I love that dollar dinner kind
Give me a bread and butter woman
AS: I mean the kind that will go nuts
DK: On coffee and doughnuts
AS: Whose heartbeat will quicken
DK: On half a boiled chicken
ALL: Give me a bread and butter woman


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Extra verse as recorded by TONY PASTOR:

Give me a bread a butter woman
Who loves to raise a family
Give me a bread and butter woman
The kind who always keeps wishin' (Always keeps wishin')
For one more addition (One more addition)
Give me a bread and butter woman


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(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2015)