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Thread #3107   Message #14855
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Oct-97 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big (from Fats Waller)
Subject: Lyr Add: YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG (from Fats Waller)
Yeah, it'ds a hard one to transcribe. I found a reasonable transcription on a Dejanews search, which saved me a lot of work:

YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG (Benson-Fisher), from a recording in 1939:
(spoken over piano intro:)
Who's that walkin' around here? Mercy!
Sounds like baby patter... baby elephant patter, that's what I calls it...

Say up in Harlem at a table for two
There were four of us: me, your big feet and you
From your ankle up, I'll say you sure are sweet
From that down there's just too much feet
Yes your feet's too big
Don't want you cause your feet's too big
Can't use you cause your feet's too big
I really hate you cause your feet's too big
(two scat lines here with "where'd you get 'em?" interjected)

Your girl she likes you, she thinks you're nice
Got what takes to be in paradise
She says she likes your face, she likes your rig
Man oh man them things are too big
Oh your feet's too big
Don't want you cause your feet's too big
Mad at you cause your feet's too big
I hate you cause your feet's too big
Oh your pedal extremities are colossal
To me you look just like a fossil
You got me walkin', talkin', and squawkin'
Cause your feet's too big

(spoken at end of song:)
Yo, your pedal extremities really are obnoxious...

Hope that helps.
-Joe Offer-