NOBODY IN TOWN CAN BAKE A SWEET JELLY ROLL LIKE MINE
Clarence Williams / Spencer Williams

as rec by Bessie Smith  June 22nd 1923 New York

also rec by Sara Martin '20's


In a bakery shop today,
I heard Miss Mandy Jenkins say;
She has the best cake, you see,
and they were fresh as fresh could be!
And as the people would pass by,
You would hear Miss Mandy cry;

Nobody in town can bake a sweet jeely roll like mine,
Like mine!
No other one in town can bake a sweet jelly roll so fine,
So fine!
It's worth lots of dough,
The boys tell me so!
It's fresh every day;
You hear 'em all say,
"Don't be no dunce,
Just try it once,
You be right in line!".

Somebody told me I made the best jelly roll in town,
I say in town!
You must admit that I'm a a jelly roll bakin' hound,
Bakin' hound.
Good jelly roll, jelly roll is so hard to find,
We always get the other kind!
Nobody in town can bake a sweet jeely roll like mine!

Somebody told me I made the best jelly roll in town,
I say in town!
You must admit that I'm a a jelly roll bakin' hound,
Bakin' hound.
Good jelly roll, jelly roll from a bakery shop
Will surely make a pool frog hop!
Nobody in town can bake a sweet jeely roll like mine,
Like mine!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - May 2009)