Milk and Honey (musical) Milk and Honey (musical) Milk and Honey is a musical with a book by Don Appell and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The story centers on a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel and is set against the backdrop of the country's struggle for recognition as an independent nation. It was Herman's first Broadway book musical following a succession of off-Broadway revues. Herman was playing the piano for "Parade", his most recent revue following "I Feel Wonderful" and "Nitecap", when he was approached by theatre producer Gerard Oestreicher, who was seeking a composer
Milk and Toast and Honey six months before writing it down and recording a demo in his Tits & Ass recording studio in Halmstad. Vocalist Marie Fredriksson assumed the song would be "a piece of cake to sing, but had to work harder than on any other Roxette track to find the magic moment." According to Ultimate Guitar, "Milk and Toast and Honey" has a moderately fast tempo of 141 beats per minute. The verse is composed of two repetitions of C–Em–Am–C–F–C–G, with the pre-chorus consisting of two short bars of F–C–G. The first chorus is made up of two sequences of C–F–Am–G, with subsequent