Lyr Req: Always Marry an Ugly Girl

Subject: Always marry an ugly girl
From:
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 07:47 AM

Greetings all. Can anyone tell me the title or where I can find the lyrics for a song that goes something like this?

[Chorus]
Always marry an ugly girl. They're the only kind.
That'll never leave you and if they do, you won't mind.

One of the verses starts kinda like.
"My brother married an ugly girl, ugly as can be"...

I heard this at a bluegrass show out near Lynchburg, VA last year.

Thanks,

Tim Ellison

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Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: John Hindsill
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 12:00 PM

I got excited when I saw this thread; I thought it might refer to the Calypso song that metamorphed into an R & B song. I have several versions including a duet, answer song, called Ugly Woman, Pretty Woman. Alas, not! Sorry I have no info on the bluegrass song.---John

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Margo
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 12:06 PM

I can tell you about my personal experience: I lived on a mini farm about 20 years ago. I milked goats and sold the milk. One of my best customers came up to the barn one day complaining about the girl his son was going to marry. He looked at me and sighed, and said that he wished his son was marrying me! He said "you're strong, healthy, not afraid to work, and you're smart. It's better than being pretty."

I was dumbfounded and uttered no more than a small laugh. Had I been complimented or told that I was ugly? I'll never forget it.

Margarita

Subject: Lyr Add: UGLIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Dylan/Hunter)
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 02:32 PM

I have heard the song that you are referring to, but don't know who did it. It reminds me of the following gem by Mr. Robert Zimmerman

UGLIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD

Words and Music by Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter
1987 Special Rider Music and Ice Nine Pub. Co. Inc


The woman that I love she got a hook in her nose
her eyebrows meet, she wears second hand clothes
She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop
I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop

You know I love her
Yeah I love her
I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World

If I ever lose her I will go insane
I go half crazy when she calls my name
When she says babababababy I l-l-love you
There ain't nothing in the world that I wouldn't do

You know I love her
Yeah I love her
I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World

The woman that I love she got two flat feet
Her knees knock together walking down the street
She cracks her knuckles and she snores in bed
She ain't much to look at but like I said

You know I love her
Yeah I love her
I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World

I don't mean to say that she got nothing goin'
She got a weird sense of humor that's all her own
When I get low she sets me on my feet
Got a five inch smile but her breath is sweet

You know I love her
Yeah I love her
I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World

The woman that I love she a got a prizefighter nose
Cauliflower ears and a run in her hose
She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop
I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop


^^

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From:
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 02:52 PM

Hey, Margarita, There is an Anglo/Russian joke that was told to me by a Doukhobor friend who "grew up on the farm"; to wit (spoken in a slow, Anglo/Russian accent to a young man with regard to the speaker's daughter):

"She's not much for look at but good for push plough!"

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Margo
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 04:34 PM

Yeah, and for nursing babies! If my feet were any shorter I'd probably fall on my face. Your bosom buddy,

Margarita

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Banjer
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 06:46 PM

The only ones I've ever heard do that song were the Giesenslaw (sp?) Brothers. I used to have it on tape but can't find it anymore.

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Susan of DT
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 07:48 PM

Didn't Belafonte sing a song about "Always marry a woman who is uglier than you"?

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: John Hindsill
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 08:26 PM

I have a fairly extensive collection of Belafonte thru the 60s and don't recall him singing it. He did sing about an ugly man, "Mama, Look a Bubu". My sister, ten years younger than I, used to go around the house pointing at her brothers, "Bubu, Bubu", and giggle.---John

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 11:16 PM

If you want to be happy and have a good life Never make a pretty woman your wife...

Man Smart, Woman Smarter

I'll try to unearth the lyric.

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 10 Jun 99 - 01:12 AM

Thought I'd mention one of my favorite old Cruzian Quadrilles, Jane, Jane, Jane, that says:

A face like a funnel
and her nose hole like a tunnel
but oh, I love her so.

Bark Woof

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jun 99 - 10:21 PM

verse in an old song..

"Went to see my girl last night,
First time I ever saw her in the light..
She was bow-legged, cross-eyed, knock-kneed, too
She could look at New York and see Kalamazoo."

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Mar 00 - 11:11 PM

freshen

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: JenEllen
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 12:25 AM

I got a gal down in Tuscaloosa
Sugar Lee is her name
Ain't good lookin and she's mean as thunder
But I love her just the same boys
I love her just the same.....

Subject: RE: Always marry an ugly girl
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 04:55 PM

It's a small world!

Just last Sunday, at a folk music group I attend here in Indiana, a guy sang this "Always marry an ugly girl" song. I don't know his name, and won't see him for another month. I intend to try to get this from him. I don't want to make a promise, but if I think of it I will post it.

Dave Oesterreich

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