# Singing our thanks to Levi Strauss **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040 "2006-06-25T01:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/1 "2006-06-25T01:52:18Z")
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 > [@](#): > > Busted flat in Baton Rouge > Feelin’ near as faded as my jeans What are yours? Sgt Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/2 "2006-06-25T02:20:09Z")
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](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ginuwine/inthosejeans.html)_ (It’s the first one I thought of. Not sure if it’s my favorite, but it’s catchy! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/3 "2006-06-25T03:34:02Z")
_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_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/4 "2006-06-25T04:49:29Z")
_Blue jean baby L.A. Lady Seamstress for the band_ ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/5 "2006-06-25T04:54:05Z")
Bell Bottom Blues Derek & the Dominoes, I think ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/6 "2006-06-25T05:10:34Z")
Mel MacDaniel _Lord Have Mercy, Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On_ ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/7 "2006-06-25T05:13:40Z")
Levi’s is an anagram of Elvis. Need I say more? ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/8 "2006-06-25T11:02:21Z")
Spied a little thing and I followed her all night In her funky fine levis and her sweater’s kind of tight ---
**Author:** ![Bordesley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bordesley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bordesley)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/9 "2011-09-21T13:16:09Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/10 "2011-09-21T14:02:02Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/11 "2011-09-21T14:08:59Z")
_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!_ ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/12 "2011-09-21T14:16:14Z")
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._ ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/13 "2011-09-21T17:55:28Z")
As an anthropology major, when I saw the title of the thread I thought you were talking about [Levi-Strauss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-strauss). We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/14 "2011-09-21T18:41:15Z")
I shall now blow the cob webs off myself and offer this [gem](http://www.ilike.com/artist/David+Dundas/track/I+Put+My+Blue+Jeans+On) (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…” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/15 "2011-09-21T18:41:44Z")
[10 songs [del]on[/del] in jeans](http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/rstones_stickyf1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/16 "2011-09-21T19:06:57Z")
_Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk_, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/17 "2011-09-21T19:18:35Z")
Would _Pants On The Ground_ count? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/18 "2011-09-21T19:26:36Z")
“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._ ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/19 "2011-09-21T19:30:12Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040/20 "2011-09-21T20:15:14Z")
[_White Levis_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2R1gD2s7Is) by the Majorettes [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-our-thanks-to-levi-strauss/362040.md?page=2)