Eddie Rabbitt

Songwriter: Chris Gantry Eddie Rabbitt

Producer: David Malloy

Takes a wad of dough and he plops it on the table
Makes it flat and round and pours in a ladle of tomato sauce
Spreads it, red, thick, and sweet

Takes a big fistful of mozzarella cheese
Spreads it around with anchovies
Green peppers and onions and mushrooms and little ground beef

Then he puts it on the shelf, and then shoves it in the oven
With tender lovin' care
And he dances around while our tongues hang out
And the smell of heaven fills the air

Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Make me the juiciest pizza in the land
Hey, I'm no penny pincher
Give me that big sixteen-incher
Whoa-oh, make it to go
Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Tullahoma dancing pizza man

Well, we sat in the booth less than a quarter of an hour
And out of the oven, like a giant sunflower
It came all ready and steamin' with boilin' cheese

Well, he took his round knife and he cut it up in slices
Put it in a box, looked at me and said the price is
\$3.99, I gave him a five, I got \$1.01 change

And I was tempted to eat it on the front seat
It smelled so good I could hardly drive
So now, excuse me, please, but I gotta have a piece
Of that scrumptious pizza pie

Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Make me the juiciest pizza in the land
Hey, I'm no penny pincher
Give me that big sixteen-incher
Whoa-oh, make it to go
Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Tullahoma dancing pizza man
Tullahoma dancing pizza man

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was born November 27, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrant parents. He was raised in East Orange, New Jersey. On his 35th birthday, he married Janine Girardi. They had three children. One daughter, Demelza, and two sons, Timmy & Tommy. Timmy was born with biliary atresia and died in childhood after a failed liver transplant intended to save his life. In March 1997, Eddie learned that he had lung cancer. He passed away on May 7, 1998. Rabbitt received several awards over the years. The Academy of Country Music Awards Top New Male Vocalist in 1977. Music City News Country Songwriter of the Year and BMI’s Robert J. Burton Award for “Suspicions” in 1979. 1980 brought BMI’s Song of the Year for “Suspicions.” In 1996 he pulled in BMI’s Three Million-Air Award and Two Million-Air Awards for “I Love a Rainy Night” and “Kentucky Rain”, respectively. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame the year of his death, 1998. Eddie’s final #1 hit came in 1989 with “On Second Thought”.

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