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Beyond the Pie at Mehaffies
August 25, 2023Have you noticed yourself humming along to pie-related music when you visit Mehaffies Pies in Dayton? That’s because we created a special playlist with hand-selected songs that mention pie.
Check out some of the tracks we feature below, and let us know if we’re missing your favorite!
Mehaffies’ Sweet Pie Playlist
- American Pie – Don McClean
- As classic as apple pie: “Bye-bye, Miss American Pie…”
- Pie In The Sky – Johnny Cash
- A nice thought from Johnny about the final chapter: “There’ll be pie in the sky.”
- Cherry Pie – Warrant
- Bust out the hairspray can and use it as a microphone to sing along to this banger: “She’s my cherry pie!”
- Key Lime Pie – Kenney Chesney
- Listen to this with a slice of Key Lime Pie and you’ll be transported to paradise: “And my, my, my – my key lime pie.”
- I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) – Four Tops
- This sweet classic gets everyone’s toes tapping: “Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, you know that I love you!”
- Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie – Jay & The Techniques
- This tune from the 60s will remind you of your childhood crush: “Apple peaches pumpkin pie, You were young and so was I.”
- Rhubarb Pie – John Fogarty
- Basically Carpe Diem, but about pie: “Rhubarb Pie, It might rain tomorrow, Better get some before I die.”
- Baby Don’t You Cry (The Pie Song from “Waitress”) – Quincy Coleman
- A lullaby from the Broadway Musical “Waitress” – “Baby don’t be blue, Gonna make for you, Gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle, Gonna be a pie from heaven above.”
- Sweet Potato Pie – Ray Charles feat. James Taylor
- A feel-good song for sure: “I guess I’m just a lucky guy, And i’m prepared to tell you why, It’s strictly on account of my Sweet Potato Pie.”
- Lemon Pie – The Strawbs
- Journey back to the 70s with this tart tune: “Lemon lady sweet and sour, You have me in your lemon power, My lemon pie.”
- Easy as Pie – Peaches & Herb
- You’ll want to bust out your Disco moves when this song plays: “Easy as pie, that’s what I am just for you.”]
- Sugar Pie – Ella Fitzgerald
- This tune is almost 100 years old and it’s still sweet: “Sugar pie, I’m always thinking about you; sugar pie I know there’s no one else like you.”
- Honey Pie – The Beatles
- A classic from the White Album: “Honey pie, you are making me crazy, I’m in love but I’m lazy / So won’t you please come home.”
- Easy as Pie – Billy Crash Craddock
- “Now I’m easy as pie, the lady had herself a plan, And it’s easy to see that she’s got me eating out of her hand.”
- Song of the South – Alabama
- One of the few songs without “pie” in the title, Alabama’s Song of the South is known for the line: “Song, song of the south; Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.”
Stop by and sing along to your favorites at our bakery in downtown Dayton!




