The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111874 Message #2361055
Posted By: Abby Sale
08-Jun-08 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Songs about being fat, overweight, heavy, obese
Subject: Lyr Add: ROLLER DERBY QUEEN (Jim Croce)
Most Fat songs seem to be 'soft & fat' but not all. No.
Roller Derby Queen
From the album: *The 50th Anniversary Collection*
Songwriter: Croce, Jim
Label: Saja
Gonna tell you a story that you won't believe
But I fell in love last Friday evenin'
With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen
Well, I was just gettin' ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye and I put it back
And I ordered myself couple o' more shots and beers
The night that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Around and round, oh, round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
She was five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama with a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight
And the roller derby program said
That she was built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Her fans call her "Tuffy" but all her buddies called her "Spike"
You know that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Around and round, oh, round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round
Well, I could not help it but to fall in love
With this heavy-duty woman I been speakin' of
Things looked kind of bad until the day she skated into my life
Well, she might be nasty, she might be fat
But I never met a person who would tell her that
She's my big blonde bomber, my heavy handed Hackensack mama
And I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Around and round, oh round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round
© TIME IN A BOTTLE© CROCE PUBLISHING
Lyrics provided by Gracenote
(chords available at http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/rollerde.htm - There'll be an mp3 of it somewhere, too.)
(We is big roller derby fans. Carolina Rollergirls (Raleigh, NC) is seeded 3rd in the country - out of about 250 leagues. Good stuff. Just ask me.)