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Literally translated, the song title makes no sense, but it is about homemade, traditional food that is supposed to cure homesickness and warm the heart. Shoo Fly Pie is an Amish-Mennonite dessert from Pennsylvania that consists mainly of sugar syrup, brown sugar and a pastry base. The name comes from the fact that the sweet molasses attracts flies and you had to constantly shoo them away while baking and cooling: “Shoo, fly!”. Apple Pan Dowdy is also a traditional dessert, a fluffy apple pie, similar to apple crumble. “Dowdy” actually means “old-fashioned” or “sloppily dressed”, but in this case it means that the cake is not perfectly formed, but rather rustic - you “cut” the pastry top during baking so that it sinks in.