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Marmalade, Molasses and Honey

posted 18 years ago by JoReia
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Here are the lyrics to the Oscar nominated song from "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean". The song lost to "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand.

Marmalade, Molasses and Honey
Sung by Andy Williams

Marmalade, molasses and honey,
Cinnamin and sassafrass tea,
They make the morning finger licking and sunny,
Sweet as it can be, poor it over me

All the hummingbirds are out humming,
Honeysuckles sway in the breeze,
Feels like a dilly of a day is out coming ,
Peaking through the sycamore trees

You know what I love to do,
Head for the hils (the hills) with you,
Maybe we’ll climb a few,
Hey! What do you say? Let’s make a day of it!

Later when the moon is out rising,
Clear across the licorice sky,
I bet you not a single star will be hiding,
And we’ll name em all, catch em if they fall

We don’t our days filled with money,
As long as we’re together they’ll be sweeter than
Marmalade, molasses and honey,
Cinnamin and sassafras tea

Cinnamin and sassafras tea
"You break his heart, I'll break your face."
-Watts, Some Kind of Wonderful

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] blockerlover 17 years ago

Thank you, I love this song. I can only find the 45rpm record from England, however. Perhaps it was not issued in the US as a single?

[–] DoctorStrangelove 17 years ago

It was between THOSE two songs??

Wow... it must've been a really bad year for music.

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[–] IBronson 16 years ago

No, it did not lose to "The Way We Were". It lost to "The Morning After" from THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE for best song of 1972. "The Way We Were" won the Oscar for Original Song of 1973. Oddly enough, "The Way We Were" was written by the same husband & wife lyracist team that wrote "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey". A very sappy couple!

[–] patsullivan10 16 years ago

I thought it was a terrible song for the movie, even if it was meant to be satirical.

[–] textus 16 years ago

It was definitely satiric in intent, imo anyway. The whole scene spoofed the "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" scene in BC &t SK. Think of the Bear as Newman, Newman as Redford and PRincipal as Kat Ross.

1973, by the way, had a lot of great under-radar movie music. Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door," Alan Price's "Oh Lucky Man." There's other stuff I'm not thinking of. Back then I hated the song "The Way We Were." But that was largely ideological.

[–] RiseShineNMeow 16 years ago

And it was sung at the Academy Awards by Glen Campbell and a children's choir.

[–] BaronVonSwollen 8 years ago

Terrible song that ruined an otherwise classic. I turn off the sound during that scene.

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