BUTTERBEAN
(Kate Pierson / Fred Schnieder / Keith Strickland / 
Cindy Wilson / Ricky Wilson)

The B-52's - 1983


Yeah, if you go down to Athens, G.A.
And you're driving in your car
You won't get very far
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 will slip through your fingers
Pass me a plate full
I'll be grateful

1-2-3-4

Pick 'em, pull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans
(Pick 'em pod by pod by pod)
Pick 'em, pull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans
(Yeah, make 'em jump outta the pot)

Come here, you 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 will slip through your fingers

Pick 'em, pull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans
(Pick 'em pod by pod by pod)
Pick 'em, pull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans
(Pick 'em for me now, pick 'em for me now)


(Contributed by David Roberson - March 2005)