Results: Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy boy Billy boy?
Published on 09/19/2016
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"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. Are you aware of this nursery rhyme and its lyrics?
I have heard of the nursery rhyme
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469 votes
I know at least some of the lyrics
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Both
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Neither
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N/A
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Here is one verse: "Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Can she make a cherry pie, Charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, Quick as a cat can wink an eye, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother." Feeding has always been closely linked with courtship. . . With humans this works two ways since we are the only animals who cook: the bride is usually appraised for her cooking ability. ("Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy?") In some cultures this is far more important than her virginity. Gentelmen, if you are involved with someone, was this person's cooking ability part of the deciding factor or an attraction to you?
Yes
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No
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Undecided
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Not Applicable
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My now ex hubby would tell people, that he knew he wanted to marry me upon seeing my kitchen, "Anyone that many pots and pans has to be a good cook!" Do you find this an acceptable reason for wanting to marry someone?
Yes
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No
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Undecided
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Not Applicable
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And now for some Billy Boy trivia. Check off the facts that you know:
An extended version of the song in which the lover performs many tasks besides the cherry pie was collected by Alan Lomax and John Avery Lomax
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A version by the Dale Sisters was released in August 1960, billed as Billy Boy, Billy Boy
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A version of the song by Jerry Lee Lewis was released on the 1975 album, Rare, Vol. 1
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Millard Lampell of the folk group the Almanac Singers wrote an anti-war version of Billy Boy
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The song was performed by Burl Ives and Beulah Bondi in the 1949 Disney film So Dear to My Heart
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Allan Sherman included a short segment about a then-current political scandal concerning Billie Sol Estes: "Oh, what have you done, Billie Sol, Billie Sol?
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The Miles Davis Quintet recorded the song on the 1958 album Milestones
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N/A
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Ladies, it's your turn. If a man / other partner, was good with tools, would this be a deal breaker in terms of a relationship? (My equivalent to baking a cherry pie).
Yes
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222 votes
No
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Undecided
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Not Applicable
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