Snookey Oookums
Words and Music by Irving Berlin
Verse 1: There's a married couple happily living in apartment forty-three,
I live right next door in apartment forty four.
Gee! But they're a mushy he and she, mushing seems to be their specialty.
It would start you walking, if you heard them talking.
Chorus: All day long he calls her Snookey Ookums, Snookey Ookums.
All they do is talk like babies.
She's his jelly elly roll, he's her sugey ugar bowl.
Here's the way they bill and coo, Poogy-woo, Poogy-woo, Poogy-woo.
All night long he calls her Snookey Ookums, Snookey Ookums.
All night long the neighbors shout, "Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out!"
They cry, "For goodness sake! Don't keep us all awake,
With your snookey, ookey, ookey baby talk."
Verse 2: If you ever heard their mushy song, if you saw how well they get along,
You would bet your life that they were not man and wife.
He's a little fellow, four foot tall, weighing just a hundred, clothes and all;
She's a great big lady, weighs at least a hundred eighty.
Chorus: All day long he calls her Snookey Ookums, Snookey Ookums.
All they do is talk like babies.
She's his jelly elly roll, he's her sugey ugar bowl.
Here's the way they bill and coo, Poogy-woo, Poogy-woo, Poogy-woo.
All night long he calls her Snookey Ookums, Snookey Ookums.
All night long the neighbors shout, "Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out!"
They cry, "For goodness sake! Don't keep us all awake,
With your snookey, ookey, ookey baby talk."

Snookey Ookums — Performed by Bill and Pamela Edwards
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