Songs about Size




"One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small..." Deb Cunefare

22 comments:

Sally said...

And you know she's big
But you don't feel small
Someone bigger than her
Comes along the hall
To swallow you for lunch

-"Giants in the Sky" from "Into the Woods"

marcia said...

It was an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today


~written by Brian Hyland

Sylvia said...

Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be something much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

John Mayer

Sandra Dodd said...

"It can flush a pickle, but it can't flush you!"

I don't know who... a song on a radio AAHS tape we had, about a toddler being too big to go down the toilet.

Sally said...

In response to Sandra's:

Alice, where are you going?
"Upstairs, to take a bath."
Alice, you are so skinny
With a neck like a giraffe
(raff-raff-raff-raff-raff-raff-raff)
Alice, don't run the water.
Alice, don't pull the plug!
Oh, my goodness, oh, my soul,
There goes Alice down the hole.
Glug...Glug...Glug...

-A children's song that scared me

Deborah in IL said...

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane

Sandra Dodd said...

The poor little thing
was so skinny and thin
He should've been washed in a jug
In a ju----g

An English music-hall thing that was put on someone's album.... who? Cream?

Katie Kiekhaefer said...

She was a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a 5'9" beautiful tall
-The Hollies "Long Cool Woman"

Anonymous said...

I like 'em big and stupid
I like 'em big and real dumb

What kind of guy does a lot for me?
A Superman with a lobotomy

Julie Brown

lillinda said...

Remember that old disco song by
Joe Tex
Three nights ago I was at a disco
Man, I wanted to bump, I was rarin' to go
And this big fat woman, bumped me on the floor
She was rarin' to go, that chick was rarin' to go
Then she did a dip, almost broke my hip
She was gettin' down, that chick was gettin' down
She wanted to bump some more, but I told her, "no!"
You done knocked me down once
You done knocked me down once
Said if you want to dance find you a big fat man
Y'all both can get on down, y'all both can get on down
Huh!

I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman
I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman
I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman
I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman
Lord, I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman

Sally said...

Then sings my soul
My savior God to thee
How great thou art
How great thou art

-"How Great Thou Art"

Sally said...

This was just
A moment in the woods,
Our moment,
Shimmering and lovely and sad.
Any moment, big or small,
Is a moment after all
Sieze the moment, skies may fall
Any moment.

"Moment in the Woods" also from "Into the Woods"

Sandra Dodd said...

My grandfather's clock
Was too big for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor...

Anonymous said...

To small to matter, but big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.

Breathe No More by Evanescence

Spinning Ninny said...

a little late but i couldn't resist:

Well I'm upper upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

AC/DC - Big Balls

Deborah in IL said...

Promises mean everything
when you're little
and the world is so big

Wonderful
Everclear

Sandra Dodd said...

She drank up all the water
She ate a bar of soap
She tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn't go down her throat, throat, throat

a clapping song

Anonymous said...

Big Time, and you know you're makin' it

Peter Gabriel

Stephen said...

This is something the teacher taught us in kindergarten or first grade:

Jumbo Elephant, Jumbo Elephant,
You have such a great long nose,
Jumbo Elephant, Jumbo Elephant,
It reaches to your toes.
Jumbo Elephant, Jumbo Elephant,
You live in a great big zoo,
Jumbo Elephant, Jumbo Elephant,
We'll come and visit you.


Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/

Sandra Dodd said...

This is a comment, not a play.

My little sister learned a song in school she came home and taught the rest of us and the lyrics were

Elsie the elephant, Elsie at the zoo
Elsie's your name, and Elsie's my name too
Elsie the elephant, Elsie at the zoo
Everyday, elephant, I'll come to visit you.

Sandra Dodd said...

You can't tell a hero by his size
"I'm just a teeny little super guy."

Video of the theme song is on youtube and here:
sandradodd.com/art

Sandra Dodd said...

...'cause Edna you look like the whole parade
I'm big, blonde and beautiful

(from Hairspray)