Eat Eat Eat — Nursery Rhyme Lyrics

Here come the sweet potatoes
And here's the Sunday meat,
I guess we must be ready now
To eat, eat, eat.
I'm going to have the nicey plate
And Daddy's leather seat,
And wear my patent-leather shoes
To eat, eat, eat.
My Daddy's talking all about
The war, and some old fleet,
I wonder if he never, never,
Never wants to eat.
We're going to have some apple-cake,
We're going to have a treat.
O hurry, hurry, Daddy,
Let us eat, eat, eat.

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What are the words to Eat Eat Eat?
The lyrics to Eat Eat Eat are: Here come the sweet potatoes / And here's the Sunday meat, / I guess we must be ready now / To eat, eat, eat. / I'm going to have the nicey plate / And Daddy's leather seat, ... Read the full 16-line nursery rhyme at Rhyme Buster.
How many lines does Eat Eat Eat have?
"Eat Eat Eat" has 16 lines of verse.

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