Black Strap Molasses - Jimmy Durante, Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman

Black strap molasses and wheat germ bread

Makes you live so long you wish you were dead

Add some yogurt and you’ll be well fed

With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread

(Jane Wyman)

My grandpa’s older than the old grey mare

He sits rocking in his rocking chair

But now he’s got a smile that he can’t lose

Grandma’s sitting knitting baby shoes

From eating black strap molasses and wheat germ bread

Makes you live so long you wish you were dead

Add some yogurt and you’ll be well fed

With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread

(Jimmy Durante)

I gave up cherry pie and t-bone steak

Chicken fricassee and ice cream cake

I don’t need vitamins or pills at all

I even mix it with the Hadacol

I’m eating black strap molasses and wheat germ bread

Makes you live so long you wish you were dead

Add some yogurt and you’ll be well fed

With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread

(Groucho Marx)

My nerves were jumpy and I’d walk the floor

I never got to slep till after four

But since I’m eating right I feel okay

I’m sleeping every night and half the day

From eating black strap molasses and wheat germ bread

Makes you live so long you wish you were dead

Add some yogurt and you’ll be well fed

With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread

(Danny Kaye)

Now I was thinner than a pencil line

Had no muscles and I had no spine

But now I’m friskier than a pup

All you have do is prop me up

Just feed me black strap molasses and wheat germ bread

Makes you live so long you wish you were dead

Add some yogurt and you’ll be well fed

With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread

(JD) I know a fella who is ninety two

(JW) Doctors told the guy that he was through

(DK) But now that the doctor has been proven wrong

(GM) He got more hop in him than Hopalong

From eating black strap molasses and wheat germ bread

Makes you live so long you wish you were dead

Add some yogurt and you’ll be well fed

With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread