Use of "pie" in song

[wittoner]

Honey Pie on the White Album is the third McCartney pie reference so far.

and Wild Honey Pie, also on The White Album is the fourth one.

[Kevin S]

Up to 27 songs now I think...

https://open.spotify.com/user/q5c5dz...lvQQmmGVih7Fjs

[Various Artist]

Oh, great work Kev!

[Janik]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Not the least likely item in that particular line. Not going to work in reality, though. Horribly sticky, 2/10.

[Various Artist]

I'm hesitant even to submit this, but back in 2001 the then-WWF released one of a series of successful albums collecting its then-current wrestlers' theme songs, WWF The Music, Vol. 5, which inexplicably also included an original song as a sort of 'bonus track'. Said track was credited to The Rock, featuring rapper Slick Ric, and was entitled merely Pie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKsT7msbuBY

In character, Mr Johnson was known to occasionally espouse his love of "pie", which we could perhaps describe as the distaff equivalent to Rock's own "The People's Strudel". Ahem. 1/10

[Kevin S]

Ha, well it's not on Spotify as far as I can see, so it's safe from the playlist at least.

Edit - but yes, I'm sure we all know we're walking along a metaphorical tightrope here, which is fine - the top marks are fully reserved for songs with references to, or glorification of, baked dishes of fruit, meat, fish or vegetables encased in pastry.

I've just heard the version of Anything You Can Do that I added and I'm a bit disappointed in the way the pie is smuggled out - though she does say it very hopefully. 7/10

[Jah Womble]

'Cherry pie' emerges frequently in pop lyrics - from artists as wide-ranging as the Detroit Emeralds (Feel the Need in Me - which also mentions the 'apple' variety) and Eton Crop (Noisy Town).

"Look Dean, it's pizza pie because it rhymes with eye. We don't care if nobody says that, you try coming up with rhymes for pizza, OK?"

When pizza* first became popular in the UK during the early seventies, it was widely called 'pizza pie'. (*By which of course I mean the crappy frozen equivalent.)

[Satchmo Distel]

'America' by Paul Simon:

So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies

Mel Blanc: 'I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat'

I am a little, tiny, bird. My name is Tweety Pie

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

High Hopes - Frank Sinatra. He had 'high apple pie in the sky hopes"

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

And 3.14159 is a Magic Number by De La soul.

[Artificial Hipster]

Hair Pie is baked twice on Trout Mask Replica.

Do first lines get much better than "Sugar pie honey bunch, you know that I love you"?

[Amor de Cosmos]

No, absolutely not.

Custard Pie Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

[Amor de Cosmos]

And, of course, there's Sugar Pie Desanto:

[3 Colours Red]

A couple more that are almost certainly euphemistic:

D'Angelo - Devil's Pie
Stephen Malkmus - Dragonfly Pie

And an honourable mention for the Weebl and Bob cartoons, where the former will adapt lyrics so that he's singing about wanting some pie.

[jameswba]

REM celebrating the downfall of Mr Richards on their penultimate album :

Mr. Richards, your conviction
Had us cheering in the kitchen,
Now the jury's eating pigeon pie.

[beak]

Pretty sure this was a rejected track from the Happy Mondays' Yes Please!

[Toby Gymshorts]

Mötley Crüe - Slice Of Your Pie

With all due apologies.

[pebblethefish]

Up to 27 songs now I think...

https://open.spotify.com/user/q5c5dz...lvQQmmGVih7Fjs

Are we unwittingly constructing the background playlist for a new pie shop that you're opening?

[Kevin S]

Haha, what a good idea. I think a fair amount of this would make customers run for the hills, mind.

3CR, yes, Weebl and Bob have been in my thoughts today, too. The jazzy song, the J-Lo tribute, the donkey song, the Ladytron tribute... it's a whole other level of pie songs.

[Satchmo Distel]

Cherry Pies Ought to Be You by Cole Porter has this great verse:

Columbine ought to be you,
(Sparkling wine ought to be you)
All of Beethoven's Nine ought to be you
(Every Will Shakespeare line ought to be you.)

There are several songs called Sweetie Pie according to a Google search, but none seem worth hearing.

[jwdd27]

"Dennis! Come back with my apple pie!"

So begins "Youth of Today", the title track of Musical Youth's debut album, and follow up single to "Pass the Dutchie" (which was a Jamaican cooking pot, not a joint, oh no).

I remember this as I later had a dog called Dennis and one of my dodgy acquaintances used to call it out to the dog when he paid a visit to bring round some Jamaican cooking accessories.

Dennis from Musical Youth is now 51.

[Jah Womble]

"One fuh sah-rowooooo! Two fuh jooooy!"

[treibeis]

"You'll Always Get A Guy With A Pie" - John Cooper Clarke