Bread and Butter

From the musical “Criss-Cross”, 1926.
Words by Anne Caldwell and Otto Harbach.
Music by Jerome Kern.

The sheet music:

Bread-and-Butter – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Bread_And_Butter – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. When a fellow pays attention
    To a girl, he ought to mention
    Ere he sees the pastor, he’s not an Astor
    But if the girl, that he is landing
    Loves him, and is understanding
    She will say, she wishes
    She could only wash his dishes

Burthen
Bread and butter, bread and butter
Sweetest words a girl can utter
When her heart is fluttering for you
Can’t you view just a tiny white cottage
With a table for two
When you spread a slice of bread with jam from the jar
No one will be there to see how happy we are
What a lovely dream of bliss
And if we needed more than this
We’d steal a little bread and butter kiss

  1. When a girl, who’s sweing box is
    Full of things for mending socks
    I must admit the fact is, she longs to practice
    And when a fellow sits out dances
    With a girl, he soon romances
    Mental pictures sweet makes
    Of his woman flapping wheatcakes