Singing our thanks to Levi Strauss

Cafe Society
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There has to be a million songs about the pants we work, play, and sometimes even sleep in. What are the favorite songs that talk about jeans? The first line of the Kris Kristofferson song is mine

As sung by Janis Joplin

What are yours?

Sgt Schwartz

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Ginuwine says:

Looking tasty really scrumptious
Tell me is there any more room for me
In those jeans
Looking good plenty tight
Is there any more room for me
In those jeans

(It’s the first one I thought of. Not sure if it’s my favorite, but it’s catchy! :slight_smile: )

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Money talks
But it don’t sing and dance
And it can’t walk
And if you’ll pardon me
I’d like to say
We’d do okay
Forever in bluejeans

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Blue jean baby
L.A. Lady
Seamstress for the band

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Bell Bottom Blues
Derek & the Dominoes, I think

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Mel MacDaniel

Lord Have Mercy, Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On

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Levi’s is an anagram of Elvis. Need I say more?

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Spied a little thing and I followed her all night
In her funky fine levis and her sweater’s kind of tight

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Levi’s

From Buttenheim Bavaria
Strode Levi Strauss one day
Establishing a business
In the city on the bay
A mercantile and general store
In California’s West
So Gold Rush engineers
Could prospect in their best

He met a man from Reno
Jake Davis was his name
A Tailor from Nevada
With pants to take the strain
Copper rivets for the denim
The patent in receipt
With fabric out of Hampshire
And Sacramento street

“Stand by Me” sang Ben E
And “Grapevine” took the heat
“C’mon Everybody!”
Eddie Cochran’s beat
“Falling Elevators”
“Heart Attack & Vine”
Shrink to fit my 501’s
Red tab’s looking fine

Yet now there’s something missing
The fabric ain’t the same
Red tab on the pocket
Rivet’s take the strain
Back patch shows the emblem
May twenty 73
This Is a Pair of Levi’s
But not the same to me

You can get them out of China
You can buy them from Hong Kong
They’ll ship ‘em from the Philippine’s.
And from Republic Dom
They’re hawked in Guatamela
Or down Columbia way
But they never ever make a pair
Stamped made in USA

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From Don Williams’s Amanda:

Well, a measure of people don’t understand
The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band
I got my first guitar when I was 14
Now I’m crowdin’ 30 and still wearin’ jeans

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The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He’s outrageous, he screams and he bawls
Jean Genie let yourself go!

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My favorite song about blue jeans is from ZZ Top - Blue Jean Blues
If I ever get back my blue jean,
Lord, how happy could one man be.
‘Cause if I get back those blue jean
you know, my baby be bringin’ 'em home to me.

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As an anthropology major, when I saw the title of the thread I thought you were talking about Levi-Strauss.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

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I shall now blow the cob webs off myself and offer this gem (a truly '70sesque treat from som cat named David Dundas). How old and unfortunate am I that this tune from my youth is the first thing that came to mind when I read the OP?

“I put my blue jeans on. I put my OOOOLD blue jeans on…”

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10 songs [del]on[/del] in jeans

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Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

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Would Pants On The Ground count?

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“Tight-Fittin’ Jeans,” by Conway Twitty

She tried to hide it by the faded denim clothes she wore
but I knew she’d never been inside a bar before
and I felt like a peasant who just had met a queen
and she knew I saw right through her tight fittin’ jeans.

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NM

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White Levis by the Majorettes