When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
Come here and learn a lesson from the lovely yellow cake.
Don't put your faith in love, my boy, my father said to me,
I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely yellow cake.

Yellow cake very pretty and the yellow cake flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor yellow cake is impossible to eat.
yellow cake very pretty and the yellow cake flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor yellow cake is impossible to eat.

Beneath the yellow cake one day, my love and I did a lie
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the sun rose in the sky.
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the yellow cake
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me:

Yellow cake very pretty and the yellow cake flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor yellow cake is impossible to eat.
Yellow cake very pretty and the yellow cake flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor yellow cake is impossible to eat.

One day she left without a word. she took away the sun.
And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true.
A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:

Yellow cake very pretty and the yellow cake flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor yellow cake is impossible to eat.
Yellow cake very pretty and the yellow cake flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor yellow cake is impossible to eat.