Jim Croce? My homeboy...

[lwoodbloo]

if only for this.



Gonna tell you a story that you wont believe
But I fell in love last friday evenin
With a girl I saw on a bar room t.v. 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 a couple o more shots and beers

The night that I fell in love with a roller derby queen
Round 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
Round 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
Shes my big blonde bomber
My heavy handed hackensack mama

You know that I fell in love with a roller derby queen
Round 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



I'd post it to the GGRD boards, but I'm afraid it's not completely complimentary.

Comments

[girlhatesyou.livejournal.com]

as a rollergirl, friends with hundreds of rollergirls I can say that posting this will not offend anyone, but it wont be the first time they've seen/heard it either.

if you are interested in other roller derby/skating songs I can give you a list of about 60, some of them are real clunkers though...

[ntang.livejournal.com]

Be a man!

[daisyconfused.livejournal.com]

I just realized that when I sang the chorus to you the other night, I had forgotten the uncomplimentary lyrics were in the song because the way Jim Croce sings them, they're ... what's a good word here ... appreciative. He sings that he's in love with her and I think he means it.

Thinking back, this song was one of the things that came to mind when I was arguing with my Dad 20+ years ago after he said some mean things about overweight people on the beach. I just don't think like that. Which is a good thing since he's not so youthful and slim as he used to be.

I suppose that's why various people have told me things like my "dude radar" must be broken. It isn't quite true. I can objectively evaluate one person as being larger than another, or one person as having better teeth than another, but it doesn't affect my opinion of them. What matters to me is whether or not they have a good heart, spiritually speaking, and for a lot of people I can see that as clear as I can see Baltimore as it looked when it was in its prime, despite the present-day boarded up windows, etc.

Well, I raise my water bottle to more good people having a good time at roller derbys!