If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake Lyrics - Sesame Street

(Count is playing ominous music on a piano) 

Cookie: Hey Count, Count, woah, stop playing 

Count: Ahh, Cookie Monster 

Cookie: Well, well, well... 

Count: That's three wells, ha ha ha 

Cookie: Me no know you play piano that good 

Count: Of course 

Cookie: Oh, do me favor. Look- Me found terrific song-- it all about food! Ya, you play piano and me sing it? Here, ya, good...(Count resumes scary music) 

Cookie: No, wait, not like that. Here, like paper say- okay- real jumpy 

Count: Ah, very good 

Cookie: It all about food 

Count: I will count the notes-- 88 wonderful piano notes. Sing it Cookie Monster! 

Cookie: Okay... 

If me knew you were coming 

Me'd have baked a cake (1 cake) 

Baked a cake (2 cakes) 

Baked a cake (3 cakes) 

If me knew you were coming 

Me'd have baked a cake (4 cakes) 

How'd ya do, how'd ya do, how'd ya do? 

(3 how's ya do's) 

If you dropped me a letter, 

Me would hire a band (1 band) 

Hire a band (2 bands) 

Hire a band (3 bands) 

If you dropped me a letter 

Me'd have hired a band (4 bands) 

And spread the welcome mat for you 

(Thank you very much) 

Now me don't know where 

You came from (over there!) 

And me don't know where 

You've been (I've been counting) 

But it really doesn't matter 

Grab a chair and fill your platter 

And dig, dig, dig right in (3 digs) 

If me knew you were coming 

Me'd would baked a cake (1 cake) 

Baked a cake (2 cakes) 

Baked a cake (3 cakes) 

If me knew you were coming 

Me'd have baked a cake (4 cakes) 

How'd you do, how'd you do, how'd you do 

(Three more how'd you do's) 

Now me don't know where 

You come from (I told you, over there) 

And me don't know where you been 

(Counting, of course) 

But it really doesn't matter 

Grab a chair and fill your platter 

And dig, dig, dig right in (3 wonderful digs) 

If me knew you were coming 

Me'd have baked a cake (1 cake) 

Baked a cake (that's 2 cakes) 

Baked a cake (that's 3) 

If me knew you were coming 

Me'd have baked a cake (4 cakes) 

How'd you do, how'd you do, how'd you do? 

(3 more how'd you do's) 

How'd ya do, how'd you do, how'd you do? 

(that's 9, that's 12 how'd you do's) 

How'd you do, how'd you do, how'd you do? 

(Ah, that's 13, 14, 15 how'd you do's) 

Cookie: You play the piano so good 

Count: Ah, thank you very much 

Cookie: Me sing so good, me deserve cookie 

Count: Ah, a little dinner music (resumes playing)