The cutest boy (echo)

I ever saw (echo)

Was sippin’ ci- (echo)

Der through a straw. (echo)

(all together)

The cutest boy I ever saw  

Was sippin’ ci-dee-i-dee-i-der through a straw. 

Deedle-leep-bop-bop!

I asked him if (echo)

He’d show me how (echo)

To sip that ci- (echo)

Der through a straw (echo)

(all together)

I asked him if he’d show me how

to sip that ci-dee-i-dee-i-der through a straw. 

Deedle-leep-bop-bop!

It happened then (echo)

That straw did slip. (echo)

We sipped our ci- (echo)

Der lip to lip. (echo)

(all together)

It happened then that straw did slip. 

We sipped our ci-dee-i-dee-i-der lip to lip. 

Deedle-leep-bop-bop!

That’s how I got (echo)

My mother-in-law (echo)

And 14 kids (echo)

Who call me “ma.” (echo)

(all together)

That’s how I got my mother-in-law,

and fourteen kids to call "ma." 

Deedle-leep-bop-bop!

The moral of (echo)

This little tale: (echo)

Is sip your ci- (echo)

Der from a pail! (echo)

(all together)

The moral of this little tale,

is sip your ci-dee-i-dee-i-der through a pail! 

Deedle-leep-bop-bop!