List: songs with people's heights in the lyrics

[R H Draney]

Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone...examples:

"Five foot two, eyes of blue,
But oh! what those five foot could do!"
- from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Tiny Hill

"Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe"
- from "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue" by Allan Sherman (parody of the above)

"Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five"
- from "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean

"Six foot six he stood on the ground,
He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds"
- from "A Thing Called Love" by Johnny Cash (also Elvis and Jerry Reed)

"Now, Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four"
- from "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce

"36-24-36?
Only if she's five-three!"
- from "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot

"There was a man - what a man! - looking down on me
Tall dark and handsome, six foot three"
- from "Peter the Meter Reader" by Meri Wilson

"You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall."
- from "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb

"Now she may be small, just three feet tall
But if you give her half a chance
She'll pin you to the wall"
- from "Bridget the Midget" by Ray Stevens

I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific examples....r

[Steffen Buehler]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone...

"He was six foot four and full of muscles."
(Men at Work: Down Under)

Regards
Steffen

[a***@hotmail.com]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone...

"It's over my head and I'm six feet tall"
- from "It's Over my Head" by Wade Hayes


"You're a devil doll,
six feet tall Dirty blonde, vagabond"
- from "Devil Doll" by Reed Dickinson


"Well I was born six feet tall, With no loving at all"
- from "Six Feet Tall" by the Zutons


"And I loved a man who's name was Harry
Six feet tall and sweet as a cherry"
- from "I Loved a Man (Polly Garter's Song) by Bonnie Tyler


"I've always thought of you as my brick wall
Built like an angel, six feet tall"
- from "Get the Message" by Electronic


"All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me"
- from "Hateful" by Everclear


"But I'm made of the same stuff and
I'm six feet tall"
- from "Follow the Money" by the Proclaimers


"She's almost six feet tall
She must think I'm a flea"
- from "Don't Bother" by Shakira


"My one's over six feet tall, six feet tall, six feet tall
My one's over six feet tall, she likes the sugar candy"
- from "Some Say the Devil is Dead" by Cruachan


"We might be big
We might be small
We may be brown 'n round or six feet tall"
- from "Get To This" by Los Lobos


"I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I could get with Leoshi"
- from "I Wish" by Skee-Lo


Hope that helps

--
Allen Kirshner
(the alt.music.lyrics TV theme guy)

[Dave Watson]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone...

"I need a woman six foot ten
She's gotta be that tall so I could get it all in."
Mojo Nixon--"Tie My Pecker to My Leg"

"Your brother wants to kill me, and he's six feet ten."
The Police--"Can't Stand Losing You"

"She's fillin' in as pretty as a girl could be,
but when she wears high heels, she's six foot three."
The Reverend Horton Heat, "Big Little Baby"

"I'm talkin' six foot Swede, 40-30-40
Amazon bombshell, tall damp and dirty"
The Rainmakers, "Big Fat Blonde"

"Am I stood here six foot tall or curled up in a foetal ball?"
Andy Partridge (of XTC), "I Can't Tell What Truth is Anymore"

"I feel like I'm walking round ten feet tall."
XTC, "Ten Feet Tall"

Iggy Pop's song "Five Foot One."

That should be enough for now.

[Bill Marcum]

On 3 Jan 2007 22:40:55 -0800, R H Draney

Post by R H Draney
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She was a long cool woman in a black dress
'Bout five-nine, beautiful, tall
--The Hollies

[Mark Rae]

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Sir Mix-a-Lot - "Baby Got Back"
36-24-36...?
Ha - only if she's five three...!

[p***@hotmail.com]

Post by R H Draney
I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific examples....r

Big boy Doane, he's a drummer. Don't play no tambourine
but he's Madras hot on the bongo trot,
if you know just what I mean.
Stands six foot three in his underwear;
going to get him down here and see
if this good lady's got a little sister `bout the same size as me.

(Ian Anderson, "Like a Tall Thin Girl, on Jethro Tull's "Catfish
Rising" 1991)

[Paul Williamson]

Post by p***@hotmail.com

Post by R H Draney
I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific examples....r

Big boy Doane, he's a drummer. Don't play no tambourine
but he's Madras hot on the bongo trot,
if you know just what I mean.
Stands six foot three in his underwear;
going to get him down here and see
if this good lady's got a little sister `bout the same size as me.
(Ian Anderson, "Like a Tall Thin Girl, on Jethro Tull's "Catfish
Rising" 1991)

Men at work - Land Down Under
quote verse 2 stanza 2 "He was six foot four"

[Harold Groot]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
"Five foot two, eyes of blue,
But oh! what those five foot could do!"
- from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Tiny Hill
"Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe"
- from "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue" by Allan Sherman (parody of the above)
"Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five"
- from "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
"Six foot six he stood on the ground,
He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds"
- from "A Thing Called Love" by Johnny Cash (also Elvis and Jerry Reed)
"Now, Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four"
- from "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
"36-24-36?
Only if she's five-three!"
- from "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot
"There was a man - what a man! - looking down on me
Tall dark and handsome, six foot three"
- from "Peter the Meter Reader" by Meri Wilson
"You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall."
- from "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb
"Now she may be small, just three feet tall
But if you give her half a chance
She'll pin you to the wall"
- from "Bridget the Midget" by Ray Stevens
I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific examples....r

By simply entering the word "lyrics" and a particular height into a
google search you can find lots of examples. For example using

lyrics "five foot one"

you get

Iggy Pop "Five Foot One"
I'm only five foot one I got a pain in my neck I'm looking up in the
city

Jean Wyclef "911"
The alleged assailaint is five foot one
and she shot me through my soul

Mission of Burma "Nancy Reagan's Head"
Five-foot-one, Eyes as cold as stone,
Topped off by that hard blackened helmet

Summer Stock Soundtrack "Blue Jean Polka"
When a five-foot one swings a partner six foot tall

The Whitlams "Met My Match"
Met my match she was five foot one
Face goes red bouncing up and down

Lyle Lovett "The Record Lady"
She was five-foot-one-and-three-quarters
Lord she claimed she five-foot-two

and so on. If you wanted bigger batches to wade through you could
just enter "five foot" or "six foot" along with the word "lyrics". If
you just want female then

"She was five foot" lyrics

will get a bunch, such as

Jim Croce "Roller Derby Queen"
She was five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama With a streak of mean

Heather Headley "Sista Girl"
She was five foot nine and she didn't wear shoes
Body like a goddess walk by her own rules

South Border "Do You Believe In Me"
She was five foot four and lonely
As she walked into my room

Narrowing it down to 50s-60s doo-wop is a little tougher, as more
people who post lyrics on websites don't put up copyright information.
So while a search also using 195 or 196 (to get music from the 50s or
60s respectively) might seem logical, it doesn't work well in
practice.

[Lothar Frings]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone...

May I contribute:

"My skinny Minnie is a crazy chick
Six foot high and one foot thick"

Post by R H Draney
From "Skinny Minnie" by Bill Haley (et al, I presume)

[Mike Meyer]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of

Here's a silly one, don't know if it counts:
"Well he was eight foot tall, weighed twelve thousand pounds"
-- "Turdy Point Buck" by Bananas At Large

[jon]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone.

Universal Soldier
by Donovan

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

[Lothar Frings]

Post by jon

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone.

Universal Soldier
by Donovan
He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

As a kind of sorry excuse that I missed this song,
here's another one with a height not to be taken
literally:

"Go ask Alice
when she's ten feet tall"

("White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane)

[Bill Marcum]

On 8 Jan 2007 00:45:54 -0800, Lothar Frings

Post by Lothar Frings

Post by jon

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
someone.

Universal Soldier
by Donovan
He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

As a kind of sorry excuse that I missed this song,
here's another one with a height not to be taken
"Go ask Alice
when she's ten feet tall"
("White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane)

And in the song "Sunny" (darn I forgot who sang that! I think it was
Bobby somebody, not Goldsboro.)
"You gave to me your all in all, and now I feel ten feet tall"

[Mark Rae]

Post by Bill Marcum
And in the song "Sunny" (darn I forgot who sang that! I think it was
Bobby somebody, not Goldsboro.)
"You gave to me your all in all, and now I feel ten feet tall"

See the OP...

[p***@hotmail.com]

Post by R H Draney
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Ok, it's not exactly people this time, but still...

"CAT'S STORY:

There I was with my back to the wall
Then he came Monster Mouse he's ten feet tall
It only took one blow".

(Genesis - "All in a Mouse's Night" from "Wind and Wuthering" 1976
Charisma)

[Clifford Blau]

"Once I was a ruler
About twelve inches long
Three times me made a yardstick
36 inches high
36 inches high was l
36 inches high
l never got over 36 inches high

Nick Lowe- "36 Inches High"

[Michael Angelo Ravera]

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
"Five foot two, eyes of blue,
But oh! what those five foot could do!"
- from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Tiny Hill
"Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe"
- from "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue" by Allan Sherman (parody of the above)
"Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five"
- from "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
"Six foot six he stood on the ground,
He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds"
- from "A Thing Called Love" by Johnny Cash (also Elvis and Jerry Reed)
"Now, Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four"
- from "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
"36-24-36?
Only if she's five-three!"
- from "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot
"There was a man - what a man! - looking down on me
Tall dark and handsome, six foot three"
- from "Peter the Meter Reader" by Meri Wilson
"You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall."
- from "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb
"Now she may be small, just three feet tall
But if you give her half a chance
She'll pin you to the wall"
- from "Bridget the Midget" by Ray Stevens
I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific examples....r

At least one version of Gloria (G-L-O-R-I-A):
"She stand five-feet-four from her head to the ground."

Are there more? Think about it ... and make a wish!

[Lumpy]

"Garota de Ipanema" Tom Jobim
Young and tan and tall and lovely
The Girl from Ipanema goes walking


"Five Foot One" Iggy Pop
I'm only five foot one
I got a pain in my neck


"Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" Tubes
It was a normal date with my girlfriend Sue
Blond hair, blue eyes, and five-foot-two...

...Attack of the fifty-foot woman
Our love was at an end


"Tokyo Love Song" Arrogant Worms
Our love was so true
But now she's three-foot-two
And she used to be five-foot-eleven


Lumpy

[Allison Stephens]

- You're only about four foot six, but don't worry about it, 'cause there's
always someone smaller than you.

--Deep Purple, "Child In Time"

Post by R H Draney
Looking to build a playlist of songs that mention the height of
"Five foot two, eyes of blue,
But oh! what those five foot could do!"
- from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Tiny Hill
"Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe"
- from "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue" by Allan Sherman (parody of the above)
"Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five"
- from "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
"Six foot six he stood on the ground,
He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds"
- from "A Thing Called Love" by Johnny Cash (also Elvis and Jerry Reed)
"Now, Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four"
- from "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
"36-24-36?
Only if she's five-three!"
- from "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot
"There was a man - what a man! - looking down on me
Tall dark and handsome, six foot three"
- from "Peter the Meter Reader" by Meri Wilson
"You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall."
- from "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb
"Now she may be small, just three feet tall
But if you give her half a chance
She'll pin you to the wall"
- from "Bridget the Midget" by Ray Stevens
I have a feeling there's a lot more of the female ones in fifties and early
sixties doo-wop type stuff, but I can't think of any specific
examples....r
--
"Keep your eye on the Bishop. I want to know when
he makes his move", said the Inspector, obliquely.