Cheryl introduces this as the most ridiculous song she has ever written. It is extremely funny.
She was walking through the woods with James, her border collie, when the chorus of the Mexican Hat Dance kept running through her head, using only the word potato. To make matters more difficult, she decided to sing it so that each line started with a different syllable. Later, when she was driving to a concert, she started on the verses.
You have to hear it to believe it. 
John Porter McMeans created an animated version of this song on YouTube that has gotten over half a million viewings. He also created one for My Cat's Birthday.
Did you know that 2008 was the International Year of the Potato?
- Potato
- Words and music by:
- Cheryl Wheeler
- They're red, they're white, they're brown
- They get that way underground
- There can't be much to do
- So now they have blue ones too
- We don't care what thay look like we'll eat them
- Any way they can fit on our plate
- Every way we can conjure to heat them
- We're delighted and think they're just great
- (Chorus)
- PO ta to po ta to po ta to po
- ta to po ta to po ta to po ta
- to po ta to po ta to po ta to
- po ta to po ta to po ta to
- Sometimes we ditch the skin
- To eat what it's holding in
- Sometimes we'd rather please
- Have just the outside with cheese
- They have eyes but they do not have faces
- I don't know if their feelings get hurt
- By just hanging around in dark places
- Where they only can stare at the dirt
- (Repeat Chorus)
- I guess the use is scant
- For other parts of the plant
- But that which grows in view
- Is eating potato too
- I imagine them under their acres
- Out in Idaho and up in Maine
- Maybe wondering if they'll be bakers
- Or knishes or latkes or plain
- (Repeat Chorus)
- 9/3/95
- (P) May 27, 2003
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
- ACF Music Group
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