I need a woman 'bout twice my height
Statuesque, raven-tressed, a goddess of the night.
Secret incantations, a candle burning blue,
We’ll consult the spirits, maybe they’ll know what to do…
She was 5 foot 6, two fifteen
A beach 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 called her Tuffy, but all her buddies called her Spike
she had hair like jeannie shrimpton
back in 1965
she had legs that never ended
i was halfway paralyzed
she was tall and cool and pretty
and she dressed as black as coal
if she asked me to i’d murder
i would gladly lose my soul
–Behind the Wall of Sleep, the Smithereens
Well she comes from Tallahassee
She’s got a hi-fi chassis
Maybe looks a little sassy
But to me she’s real classy
Yeah my Tallahassee Lassie down in F-L-A
Here’s a lovely lady and so appealing
A sassy, sophisticated, sexy lady
Well I’m twenty six, and you’re eighty
The clock is ticking so you better not front
We can go to my place and we can smoke a blunt
Well you’re a Golden Girl, just like Bea Arthur
Just turn down the lights so we can go farther
I really want to thank you for posting this. I’ve been hearing the line as “Like laid a stack, that’s a fact” which makes no sense whatsoever, and It’s been buggin’ me for 30 years.
So…she’s the one, the only one, built like ablkjadazun.
That fits better, because all the other lyrics in the song are describing the lady in question. It would seem a bit out of place to stick in this one line of the singer stating his preferences
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
Sometimes I love that song, sometimes I hate it. But it always makes me smirk when somebody else is around and looking confused that something this gloriously tacky was ever written. God rest ye Jim.