Friday, August 24, 2012

Big Hair

I had just seen Dutch Falcone and His Large Orchestra -- big-band leader, with girl singers, horn section and blazing guitars -- and I wanted to write a song for the band. I sheepishly thrusted it at one of the singers, who worked at the coffeehouse I frequented. I'm sure she tossed it like a rotten love letter.

(E) Pull it, (E7) tease it, (A7) please it
(E)  Run your fingers in bet(A7)ween it
(E) Red, blonde, (E7) green or (A7) blue
(E) 3 feet in the air and a ton of (E7) Dippity-Do
(A7) Ooooh, baby, all that hair
Don't (E) brush me off, Farrah -- I want (B7) your big hair

(E) I love you kinky and I'll take (B7) you straight
(E) Curlers make better bounce, toss (B7) and shake
(E) Ohhh, what body -- dig (B7) that shine
(E) Never cut it girl or you'll (C) make me (B7) cry, (A) BIG (E) HAIR

(E) Hair the size of Texas
(C) Styled up like a Lexus
(A) Spread out on my pillow
Gotta (E) open up a window
(E) Big old whiff of spray
(C) Damn, I gotta say:
(A) Feathered,Mowhawk, Mullet, Glam
(B7) Hair as big as that, I don't (E) care if she's a man


(E) Pull it, (E7) tease it, (A7) please it
(E)  Run your fingers in bet(A7)ween it
(E) Red, blonde, (E7) green or (A7) blue
(E) 3 feet in the air and a ton of (E7) Dippity-Do
(A7) Ooooh, baby, all that hair
Don't (E) brush me off, Farrah -- I want (B7) your big hair

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