# Your favorite descriptions of a character in a song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883 "2012-06-21T20:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/21 "2012-06-22T01:34:28Z")
_She keeps Moet et Chandon In her pretty cabinet ‘Let them eat cake’ she says Just like Marie Antoinette_ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/22 "2012-06-22T01:56:32Z")
_She was pure, every ounce I was sure, when her titties bounce_ ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/23 "2012-06-22T03:39:53Z")
[“Mandy is Two”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c-rfZs6RaE), one of the sweeter Billie Holiday tunes. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/24 "2012-06-22T04:38:06Z")
She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes, She can ruin your faith with her casual lies, And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child but she’s always a woman to me ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/25 "2012-06-22T05:24:11Z")
“My gal is red hot, your gal ain’t doodley squat” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/26 "2012-06-22T05:37:26Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _She keeps Moet et Chandon > In her pretty cabinet > ‘Let them eat cake’ she says > Just like Marie Antoinette_ I prefer the chorus: She’s a Killer Queen Gunpowder, gelatine Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind Anytime ---
**Author:** ![MunkaMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@MunkaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MunkaMike)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/27 "2012-06-22T07:06:39Z")
Bobby had Leukemia. He was 16 years old. He looked like 65. When he died. He was a friend of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/28 "2012-06-22T08:42:15Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I prefer the chorus: > > She’s a Killer Queen > Gunpowder, gelatine > Dynamite with a laser beam > Guaranteed to blow your mind > Anytime Or, another artist possibly talking about the same woman: She’s an old-time ambassador Of sweet talking, night walking games And she’s known in the darkest clubs For pushing ahead of the dames If she says she can do it Then she can do it, she don’t make false claims But she’s a Queen, and such are queens That your laughter is sucked in their brains ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/29 "2012-06-22T10:20:56Z")
Big John: Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive. He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245. Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip. And everybody knew you didn’t give no lip to Big John. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/30 "2012-06-22T11:51:11Z")
Snot running down his nose Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes …Aqualung, Jethro Tull ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/31 "2012-06-22T12:12:10Z")
\*Sherry was a waitress at the only joint in town She had a reputation as a girl who’d been around Down Main Street after midnight, a brand new pack of cigs A fresh one hangin’ from her lips, a beer between her legs \* Robert Earl Keen, “The Road Goes On Forever” ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/32 "2012-06-22T12:46:46Z")
Richard Thompson has so many: James to Red Molly in 1952 Vincent Black Lightning: And I’ve seen you at the corners and cafes it seems Red hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme Cooksferry Queen: Well she’s got every rare perfection All her looks beyond compare She’s got dresses that seem to float in the wind Pre-Raphaelite curls in her hair ---
**Author:** ![Ruby\_Slippers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@Ruby\_Slippers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby_Slippers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/33 "2012-06-22T12:57:36Z")
When the shrill winds are screaming And the evening is still Lady Samantha glides over the hill In a long satin dress that she wears every day Her home is the hillside, her bed is the grave Lady Samantha glides like a tiger Over the hills with no one beside her No one comes near They all live in fear But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears The tales that I told round the fire every night Are out of proportion and none of them right She is harmless and empty of anything bad For she once had something that most of you have Lady Samantha - lyrics by Elton John, recorded by Three Dog Night ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/34 "2012-06-22T13:07:42Z")
“My name’s Stewart Ransom Miller And I’m a serial lady killer” Old 97s, Barrier Reef ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/35 "2012-06-22T13:14:37Z")
Jerry Reed’s Amos Moses _Now the folks around south Louisiana. Said Amos was a hell of a man. He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator, And just use one hand. That’s all he got left cuz alligator bit it! Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/36 "2012-06-22T13:30:48Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > _Billy was a Mountain > Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder > Billy had two big caves for eyes > With a cliff for a jaw that would go up or down > And whenever it did > He’d puff out some dust > And hack up a boulder._ A mountain is something You don’t want to fuck with He hacked up a boulder, and it totalled my car. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/37 "2012-06-22T13:35:27Z")
Sugar Magnolia _She comes skimmin’ through rays of violet, she can wade in a drop of dew_ ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/38 "2012-06-22T13:36:35Z")
Bloodhound Gangs “why is everybody always picking on me” \*The morn’ that I was born my old man beat up the doctor He clocked the doctor cause the doctor said I looked like Chewbacca The doctor said sir you’re misled sir which infers you mistook me I did not mean your lovely wife was shackin’ up with a wookie What I mean is Wolverine is less hairy than your son He’s looks like Chewie Baba Booey Baba Booey and Hong Kong Phooey all in one To put it mild your new-born child’s completely nutty fu-fu lookin’ I’d shove him back into the oven until he is done cookin’ \* ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/39 "2012-06-22T13:39:48Z")
## She’s pure as New York snow, she got Bette Davis eyes (Kim Carnes) You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip hop But you fit me better than my favorite sweater (Lana del Rey, Blue Jeans) ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883/40 "2012-06-22T14:32:26Z")
Some Townes Van Zandt. “Pancho was a bandit boys His horse was fast as polished steel Wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel” -Pancho & Lefty “The name she gave was Caroline Daughter of a miner Her ways were free It seemed to me That sunshine walked beside her” -Tecumseh Valley. The latter is incredibly poignant due to the tragedy in the song. Pete St John has written many great songs, and this one was notably performed by The Dubliners, among many other bands. “I knew Danny Farrell when his football was a can With his hand-me-downs and Welliers and his sandwiches of bran But now that pavement peasant is a full grown bitter man With all the trials and troubles of his travelling people’s clan” -Danny Farrell The same can be said of Phil Coulter. “I remember the night that he came in From the wintery cold and damp A giant of a man in an oilskin coat and a bundle that told he was a tramp He stood at the bar and he called a pint Then turned and gazed at the fire On a night like this, to be safe and dry Is my one and only desire” -Donegal Danny. There’s many, many folk songs that have great character descriptions. The Irish Rover is basically a series of miniature character studies, for example. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-descriptions-of-a-character-in-a-song/625883.md?page=3)