Home Cookin'

Soul food, talkin' about soulful food
Candied yams, hot biscuits and big fat juicy hams
Soul food, talkin' about soulful food
Collard greens, hot cornbread and fatback swimmin' in beans

I just found a woman, she ain't nothin' for looks
But up in the kitchen, she tends to business and cooks

Talkin' about soul food, plenty of good soulful food
Kidney stew, hot hoecake and that's home cookin' for two

Don't cook me up no fancy line, cook me a dinner
Cook me a dinner and if everything is
Tasty, I'll be leavin' lettin' you know
Lot of ladies think a little romance, that a real
Bеll you oughta do is you cook it and take a chancе
Don't feed me whiskey, gin and wine, cook me a dinner
Cook and serve me somethin' tasty to chew
And maybe I'll realize that all I'm really longin' for is you

My, what a delicious lookin' puddin', let me have a little bite
Ma, you really takin' care of business
Tonight, really got the pots on this evenin'
What a meal, what a meal, what a meal, what a meal
Nowadays, such a novel way, but never learn
The art of how to burn
Don't cook up where we'll go to dine, cook me a dinner
The fast food restaurants, they really
Are cold, they really are not soul
They can't duplicate your cookin' home to home

Soul food, soulful food
That'll get it every doggone time
See, makin' good dollar eatin' be a hard crime
Plenty of people livin' now appreciate the kind of
Food their fathers ate way back in the olden days
When food was really good
And all the girls were good at cookin'
, Cookin' the food and cookin' it good
Remember when the Sunday dinner started gettin' sent
For cookin', it was mostly cooked on a Saturday night
Cookin' out today, ready packaged dinner, mostly scientific food way

Please, never send me to a restaurant, ain't nothin'
In a restaurant for any man who's got himself a cookbook
Every time I try to eat in a restaurant, the cookin'
Drives me away and sends me back home where cookin' got soul

One thing that really hurts a lot of women
I'm talkin' to you, modern women
I'm talkin' to you, new style women
In your fancy clothes and phony pose
Plenty of prim, prim, prim, prim prance around
But nothin' that you're puttin' down make your man gain a pound
A man'll do an awful lot of lookin', but
He's always comin' home to get his cookin'
Don't get too fancy, ladies, keep somethin' cookin' in the pot
Just feed your man one good meal every day, sit him down there
Then watch him workin', every bite plays a part
Fills him up and feeds him, gives him
A warmer kind of feelin' in his heart

You find yourself a woman, you like the way she look
She charmin' and she pretty, but she say it's lots of trouble to cook
Make her cook, make her cook
You meet up with a Debbie, she's in the social book
She lovely and she love you, but she pay a servant double to cook
Make her cook
If a woman can cook, it don't matter much how she look

I just found a woman, she ain't nothin' for looks
But up in the kitchen, she tends to business and cooks

Talkin' about soul food, plenty of good soulful food
Kidney stew, hot biscuits and that's home cookin' for two
Hot cornbread and that's home cookin' for two
Hot hoecake and that's real down, down home, home cookin' for two
Down home, home cookin' for two