Purple People Eater was written by Shep Wooley (or was it Sheb? At any rate, the composer was the recently deceased American country-music personality, not the British performer with a very similar name who is still alive and well.)

Wonder if the same songwriter was responsible for "Tan Shoes..."? Sinsull, do you have that info (on sheet music or a record label)? I can't imagine that you were you able to recall that entire song from memory, but maybe you found a source from which to transcribe the lyrics that does not include the writer's credit.

I agree that the two songs do seem to share a common sensibility, although "Tan Shoes" is not nearly as deliberately comical as "People Eater."

Joybell, I believe the term "hot pants" came somewhat later, in the swingin' 60s. This tune dates back to the mid-to-late 50s, when the operative term for this scandalous new attire was "short shorts." There was a hit song "Who wears short shorts / We wear short shorts" that obviously came out shortly before PPE. The melody and (squeaky) vocal inflection of the single line "Who wears short shorts" in the recording of "People Eater" is copied directly from the earlier hit.