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List: songs with people's heights in the lyrics
3 Jan 2007 22:40:55 -0800
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R H Draney...
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Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone...examples:
Mike Meyer...
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Here's a silly one, don't know if it counts:
"Well he was eight foot tall, weighed twelve thousand pounds"
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Steffen Buehler...
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"He was six foot four and full of muscles."
(Men at Work: Down Under)
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progea...
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Ok, it's not exactly people this time, but still...
"CAT'S STORY:
There I was with my back to the wall
Then he came Monster Mouse he's ten feet tall
It only took one blow".
(Genesis - "All in a Mouse's Night" from "Wind and Wuthering" 1976
Charisma)
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jon...
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Universal Soldier
by Donovan
He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.
Lothar Frings...
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As a kind of sorry excuse that I missed this song,
here's another one with a height not to be taken
literally:
"Go ask Alice
when she's ten feet tall"
("White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane)
Bill Marcum...
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And in the song "Sunny" (darn I forgot who sang that! I think it was
Bobby somebody, not Goldsboro.)
"You gave to me your all in all, and now I feel ten feet tall"
Mark Rae...
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"Five foot two, eyes of blue,
But oh! what those five foot could do!"
- from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Tiny Hill
"Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe"
- from "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue" by Allan Sherman (parody of the above)
"Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five"
- from "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
"Six foot six he stood on the ground,
He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds"
- from "A Thing Called Love" by Johnny Cash (also Elvis and Jerry Reed)
"Now, Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four"
- from "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
"36-24-36?
Only if she's five-three!"
- from "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot
"There was a man - what a man! - looking down on me
Tall dark and handsome, six foot three"
- from "Peter the Meter Reader" by Meri Wilson
"You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall."
- from "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb
"Now she may be small, just three feet tall
But if you give her half a chance
She'll pin you to the wall"
- from "Bridget the Midget" by Ray Stevens
I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific examples....r
progea...
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Big boy Doane, he's a drummer. Don't play no tambourine
but he's Madras hot on the bongo trot,
if you know just what I mean.
Stands six foot three in his underwear;
going to get him down here and see
if this good lady's got a little sister `bout the same size as me.
(Ian Anderson, "Like a Tall Thin Girl, on Jethro Tull's "Catfish
Rising" 1991)
Paul Williamson...
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Men at work - Land Down Under
quote verse 2 stanza 2 "He was six foot four"
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Michael Angelo Ravera...
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At least one version of Gloria (G-L-O-R-I-A):
"She stand five-feet-four from her head to the ground."
Are there more? Think about it ... and make a wish!
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