Monday, Dec. 04, 1939
Crooning Flour Salesman W. Lee O'Daniel was elected Governor of Texas in 1938 on a promise of $30-a-month pensions. Texans last week cast up accounts, noted that after a year's fiddling and finagling, "Pappy" O'Daniel had sliced the average $8-a-month old-age pension to about $6, had in some cases cut pensions as low as $1, was stalling on a tax bill to pay off his promises. Dissatisfaction flamed. O'Daniel's impeachment on a technicality was proposed, to permit calling of a tax session of the legislature by Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson. A more lyrical O'Daniel promise was next impeached: His campaign song, "Please Pass The Biscuits, Pappy", was bitterly recalled by a critic who dashed off a sarcastic rejoinder, "Biscuit-Cutting Blues" (tune: Shortenin' Bread):
"Oh, Mr. Pappy,
Why don't you
Pass dem biscuits
Like you promised to?
Chorus:
"Pappy's little baby
Loves biscuits, biscuits,
Pappy's little baby
Loves biscuit bread!
"Ol'' winter's coming
But what you do?
You cut my biscuit
Square in two!" (ad inf.)