If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake

Sesame Street · Other Songs - Sesame Street

(Count is playing ominous music on a piano)



Cookie: Hey Count, Count, woah, stop playing



Count: Ahh, Cookie Monster



Cookie: Well, well, well...



Count: That's three wells, ha ha ha



Cookie: Me no know you play piano that good



Count: Of course



Cookie: Oh, do me favor. Look- Me found terrific song--

it all about food! Ya, you play piano and me sing it?

Here, ya, good...(Count resumes scary music)



Cookie: No, wait, not like that. Here, like paper say- okay- real jumpy



Count: Ah, very good



Cookie: It all about food



Count: I will count the notes-- 88 wonderful piano

notes. Sing it Cookie Monster!



Cookie: Okay...



If me knew you were coming

Me'd have baked a cake (1 cake)

Baked a cake (2 cakes)

Baked a cake (3 cakes)

If me knew you were coming

Me'd have baked a cake (4 cakes)

How'd ya do, how'd ya do, how'd ya do?

(3 how's ya do's)



If you dropped me a letter,

Me would hire a band (1 band)

Hire a band (2 bands)

Hire a band (3 bands)

If you dropped me a letter

Me'd have hired a band (4 bands)

And spread the welcome mat for you

(Thank you very much)



Now me don't know where



You came from (over there!)

And me don't know where

You've been (I've been counting)

But it really doesn't matter

Grab a chair and fill your platter

And dig, dig, dig right in (3 digs)



If me knew you were coming

Me'd would baked a cake (1 cake)

Baked a cake (2 cakes)

Baked a cake (3 cakes)

If me knew you were coming

Me'd have baked a cake (4 cakes)

How'd you do, how'd you do, how'd you do

(Three more how'd you do's)



Now me don't know where

You come from (I told you, over there)

And me don't know where you been

(Counting, of course)

But it really doesn't matter

Grab a chair and fill your platter

And dig, dig, dig right in (3 wonderful digs)



If me knew you were coming

Me'd have baked a cake (1 cake)

Baked a cake (that's 2 cakes)

Baked a cake (that's 3)

If me knew you were coming

Me'd have baked a cake (4 cakes)

How'd you do, how'd you do, how'd you do?

(3 more how'd you do's)

How'd ya do, how'd you do, how'd you do?

(that's 9, that's 12 how'd you do's)

How'd you do, how'd you do, how'd you do?

(Ah, that's 13, 14, 15 how'd you do's)



Cookie: You play the piano so good



Count: Ah, thank you very much



Cookie: Me sing so good, me deserve cookie



Count: Ah, a little dinner music (resumes playing)