Please remember the board rules for quoting from works under copyright: don’t use more than five lines or one verse. Just use a verse and link to a webpage with the rest of the material. I’ve left the Shakespeare and Gilbert and Sullivan excerpts alone because those works are public domain.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life (never make a pretty woman your wife) - Jimmy Soul
This thread is glorious.
Factory Girl by the Stones.
Besides the already mentioned Tom Lehrer song, we can add “The Wienershnitzel Waltz,” where the singer, drinking champagne from his beloved’s shoe because it took two bottles to fill the thing up.
And then
*It was I who stepped on your dress.
The skirts all came off, I confess.
Revealing for all of the others to see
Just what it was that endeared you to me.
*
Presumably not the face.
And perhaps Lydia the Tattooed Lady from ** At the Circus** sung by Groucho. Well, I don’t like tattoos.
Perhaps, but she had eyes that men adore so (and a torso even moreso).
As in many other songs about fat women, they may not be attractive to you, but they are attractive to the songwriter. Even in La Ramona, the woman is “so fat that when she lies down the whole village shakes”, but every second line is “Ramona, I love you” and she gets several boyfriends to choose from.
Dodie Stevens’ Pink Shoelaces:
I’ve got a guy his name is Dooley
He’s my guy and I love him truly
He’s not good-looking, heaven knows
But I’m wild about his crazy clothes!
Richard & Mimi Farina’s Hard Lovin Loser
Hes the kind of guy puts on a motorcycle jacket
And he weigh about a hundred and five
He’s the kind of surfer got a ho-daddy haircut
And you wonder how he’ll ever survive
Apparently all this guy’s atttributes are below his waist.
“Mama Looka Boo-Boo”, Harry Belafonte
Todd Rundgren - Does Anybody Love You?
You’re so lovely, so wise
You could make Venus crawl
But love between the ugly is the most beautiful love of all
Smiths’ William it was Really Nothing
Catalina Madalina.
“Someone to Watch Over Me” by George & Ira Gershwin:
“Although he may not be the man some girls think of as handsome, to my heart he’ll carry the key.”
The Temptations’ Beauty is Only Skin Deep:
*Now, you speak your words warm and sincere
And let me know that your love is near.
A pretty face you may not possess
But what I like about you is your tenderness.
*
(written by N. Whitfield and E. Holland, Jr.)
Are you implying that fat-bottomed girls are not attractive? Not talking about fat all over. But a nice booty is better than a flat butt.
NOFX - Hotdog Down a Hallway "And when her flesh begins to sag/ She’s like a human sleeping bag/ I feel so cozy safe and warm/ She’s my insulation
Old 97’s TIme Bomb - I got a time bomb in my mind mom/ I got it badly for a stick legged girl
Let’s Hear It For the Boy by Deniece Williams. Not sure what he looked like, but he clearly had some issues.
Lump
He’s not much for looks
And no hero out of books,
but he’s myyyyy man…
My Man,
covered by Fannie Brice, Lady Day, Streisand, Ross, Peggy Lee, and others.
Indeed. Great stuff.