# Big Legged Women **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621 "2001-10-05T16:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/21 "2014-09-13T03:53:39Z")
> [@Waverly](#): > > It seems to be a blues device that goes far back into the sands of time. [Brownie McGee](http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/2541/blbmcghe.htm#big) recorded a song by the same name near the year 1945, and from the lyrics, it can be judged that the woman is to be admired, but is not inherently evil. My best guess is that ‘big legged’ refers to some sort of Reubenesque ideal, and bluesman have been borrowing this device for decades. The idea that attractive women may also be the vehicles of a man’s downfall is also common; IMOH you have a mating of these two themes. I think **Waverly** nailed it in the original incarnation of this thread. These sorts of descriptions of women are a staple of old blues songs. On my iTunes I have a Lead Belly number called “Big Fat Woman” and a Freddie King song called “Big Legged Woman,” and Robert Petway and Honeyboy Edwards doing takes on “Long Tall Woman Blues.” There are probably some others I can’t find right now. Bessie Smith was a whole lot of woman and I’m sure she sang about that some. That’s who they considered desirable. Or at least enough of them felt that way to repeat the description. > [@AskNott](#): > > On _West, Bruce, and Laing,_ Jack Bruce sang, "Big leg women’s/ All I crave/Big leg woman gonna carry me/ To my grave. That’s “Born Under a Bad Sign,” an Albert King song that Cream covered. It’s not a particularly old song - King and Booker T. Jones wrote it in the late '60s, shortly before Cream did their own version - but it had been blues theme forever. Zep was referring to that. For once I don’t think it’s fair to accuse them of ripping anybody off. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/22 "2014-09-13T12:07:11Z")
I like Big Legs and I cannot lie And all you other brothers can’t deny When a girl walks in with a tiny waist and long legs in your face - you get sprung! 😉😃 Musicians typically like their lyrical women _thick_, I guess 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/23 "2014-09-13T23:55:49Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > zombie or no > > Big Leg Emma was wonderous. get your asses on the dance floor! ---
**Author:** ![Paulcamacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Paulcamacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paulcamacho)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/24 "2024-02-05T15:37:36Z")
Big legged woman will walk all over you. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/25 "2024-02-05T15:55:16Z")
I’ve never gone to bed with a big-legged woman, but I sure have woken up next to some! 😳 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/26 "2024-02-05T17:01:21Z")
I didn’t know But then I scrolled and this twice-revived zombie Is extremely old… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/27 "2024-02-05T18:02:47Z")
> [@Paulcamacho](#): > > Big legged woman will walk all over you. What about bow-legged women? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/asojRK1CM_g/maxresdefault.jpg "MASH 05-01 - Bug Out Pt 1-Col Potter plays Valencia on his armpits") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asojRK1CM_g) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621/28 "2024-02-05T19:34:31Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > > [@ThisYearsGirl](#): > > > > The funniest Onion article of all time (which isn’t archived) is “Blues Singer’s Woman allowed to tell her side of the story” and the article is done like a blues song > > [blues-singers-woman-permitted-to-tell-her-side](http://www.theonion.com/articles/blues-singers-woman-permitted-to-tell-her-side,472/) Best Onion article ever. 😂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-legged-women/85621.md?page=1)