Birthday Cake, The

DESCRIPTION: "It's a little round thing so nice and clean, Prettiest thin you've ever seen." "Get your hands off of it, 'cause it don't belong to you, And you'll never get a piece, I don't care what you do." "Make no mistake, This song here's about a birthday cake"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1957 (List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana)
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous food sex warning
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana, pp. 199-200, "The Birthday Cake" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16808
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Keep Your Hands Off of Her" (lyrics)
NOTES [46 words]: I don't think there is much doubt but that this is based on Lead Belly's "Keep Your Hands Off of Her" or one of its relatives. But the addition of the birthday cake lines, which give it a whole different twist, are (just barely) enough for me to regard it as a separate song. - RBW
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