The best food-related song lyrics

Do all the Waffle House songs count?

 

Although the pig is more my friend than the cow, Cooper's in Llano is strong. Lot of those places out west like that just cook everything out in the open, too, rather than using a pit. Pit's better, but this stuff is pretty dang good, too.

 

I almost forgot the cheesburger song from Veggie Tales. Great song. (Sorry I worked at a christian summer camp for like 8 years)

 

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

 

Across the street
A neon sign
All you can eat
For a dollar-ninety-nine (Huey Lewis and the News, "Bad is Bad)

I bought you a brand-new Ford
You wanted a Cadillac
I bought you a ten-dollar dinner
You said "Thanks for the snack" (BB King, "How Blue Can You Get")

 

Great song.

 

And I walked across the street and caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken,
And it took me back to something I'd lost somewhere somehow along the way.
-- Sunday Morning Coming Down, Kris Kristofferson

Oh come, come be my waitress and serve me tonight, serve me the sky tonight,
Oh come, come by my waitress and serve me tonight, serve me the sky with a big slice of lemon.
-- Geese of Beverly Road, The National

I don't want to take what you can give,
I would rather starve than eat your bread.
-- Corduroy, Pearl Jam

Then came lo mein, and going insane, at the Chinese buffet way downtown,
I was steamed, I was fried, but you stood by my side, as I had my nervous breakdown.
-- Then Came Lo Mein, Robert Earl Keen

 

"Black coffee in bed."

 

Yeah, if you go down to Athens, G-A
And you're driving in your car
You won't get very far before
You hear people shoutin' out!
What's that?
Butterbean! Yeah!
Gramps and grannies
Kids in their teens
Junkyard dogs and campus queens
Yeah, everybody likes butterbeans

Don't you wait, don't you linger
Butterbean don't slip through my fingers

Pass me plate full, I'll be grateful
1-2-3-4
Pick 'em, hull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans
(Fix 'em hot hot hot)
(Yeah, make 'em jump outta the pot)

Come here you little butterbean you come on!
Butterbean-butterbean
Butterbean-butterbean
Butterbean-butterbean
Butterbean-butterbean
Butterbean grows on the vine

Some people are fat, some people are lean
But I want you to show me the person
Who doesn't like butterbeans
Yay!

Well, you can have your yams
You can have your collard greens
But if you want to please little ol' me
You better fix butterbeans

Don't you wait, don't you linger
Butterbean don't slip through my fingers

Pick 'em, hull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans
(Fix 'em hot hot hot)
(Yeah, make 'em jump outta the pot)
Fix 'em for me now

 

"Better people, better food ... and better beer"

Rush
"Territories"
"Power Windows"
1984
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"Managers with open checks, liquid business lunches"

Genesis
"Match Of The Day"
"Spot The Pigeon" (EP)
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"A bottle of while, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead"

Billy Joel
"Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"
"The Stranger"
1977

 

"I met her in a club down in old Soho,
"Where they drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola cherry cola,
C-O-L-A, cola ..."

-- Lola, The Kinks

 

Lamont Cranstron absolutely rocks.

Loves me some "Shakedown."