If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake Songtext
von Eileen Barton

Eileen Barton
Miscellaneous
If I Knew You Were Comin′ I'd′ve Baked A Cake
If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd′ve Baked A Cake
-MCA Records-MSD2-35180/GMD80041
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 10 weeks in 1950
-competing versions charted by Georgia Gibbs (#5), Benny Strong (#11),
-Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger (#15), and Art Mooney (#28)
SPOKEN: Come in! Well, well, well. Look who′s here. I haven't seen you in many
a year.
If I knew you were comin′ I'd′ve baked a cake, baked a cake, baked a cake
If I knew you were comin' I′d've baked a cake
Howdya do, howdya do, howdya do?
Had you dropped me a letter, I'd a-hired a band, grandest band in the land
Had you dropped me a letter, I′d a-hired a band
And spread the welcome mat for you
Oh, I don′t know where you came from
'cause I don′t know where you've been
But it really doesn′t matter
Grab a chair and fill your platter


And dig, dig, dig right in
If I knew you were comin' I′d've baked a cake, hired a band, goodness sake!
If I knew you were comin' I′d′ve baked a cake
Howdya do, howdya do, howdya do?
If I knew you were comin' I′d've baked a cake, baked a cake, baked a cake
If I knew you were comin′ I'd′ve baked a cake
Howdya do, howdya do, howdya do?
Had you dropped me a letter, I'd a-hired a band, grandest band in the land
Had you dropped me a letter, I'd a-hired a band
Spread the welcome mat for you
Oh, I don′t know where you came from
′cause I don't know where you′ve been
But it really doesn't matter
Grab a chair and fill your platter
And dig, dig, dig right in
If I knew you were comin′ I'd′ve baked a cake, hired a band, goodness sake!
If I knew you were comin' I'd′ve baked a cake
Howdya do, howdya do, howdya do?
Howdya do, howdya do, howdya do?
Howdya do-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.