Title:  old double “e”

Composer:  Joe Raposo / Elaine Leron

Lead vocals:  Bill Cosby

Backing vocals:  none

Scene:  (From the TEC album.)

[BC]  Oh, you will see double “e” on a tree or a bumblebee.

Old double “e”.

And you’ll agree double “e” is on “chicken fricassee”.

Old double “e”.

Oh, you can flee to Tennessee for a three-day spree.

Have yourself a time at a jamboree.

Anywhere you go, you find you can’t get free

From double “e”.

A referee named McGee just got water on the knee.

Old double “e”.

A chimpanzee, chickadee, or a fellow employee

Needs double “e”.

So if you’ve been listenin’, there’s a guarantee

That when you see a word that ends in double “e”,

You’ll know how to say it quick as one, two, three.

Old double “e”.  Old double “e”.  Old double “e”.

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