SIX FOOT SEVEN WOMAN

Foster & Allen - 1985
Also recorded by: Seamus Moore.


Come let me introduce you to the woman who's me Wife
Of all me great possessions, she's the biggest in me life
There's not a chance I'd lose her, she's too easy to be found
She's six foot seven inches and she weighs three hundred pounds

Sure, when I started courtin' her, her figure was a twelve
I put me arms around her, but me arms they were too short
To take her to the pictures, sure I didn't have the dough
To pay for all the seats she'd fill down in the bottom row

Oh, she's six foot seven inches, Boys, let's sing it once again
She's got the kind of figure that was mostly meant for men
You may talk of Texas giants, who are brawny, big and tall
But this six foot seven woman, she'd make midgets of them all

To fit her with the costume, makes the tailors take great pains
They have to take her measurements with lengths of Irish chains
It takes a room of cloth to make a top of any taste
And half an acre more to cover all below her waste

Oh, she's six foot seven inches, Boys, let's sing it once again
She's got the kind of figure that was mostly meant for men
You may talk of Texas giants, who are brawny, big and tall
But this six foot seven woman, she'd make midgets of them all

The mornin' we got married, I can still remember well
We went to have our breakfast in the Park House Hotel
To fit her through the doorway, sure I knew it was too small
She ate so much, to get her out we had to knock the wall

She says our house is much too small, she can't expand her chest
She's rather like a cuckoo in a little sparrow's nest
If every women grew that size, I'm going to tell you, Boys
You might knock all the houses down and build them twice the size

Oh, she's six foot seven inches, Boys, let's sing 'er once again
She's got the kind of figure that was mostly meant for men
You can talk of Texas giants, who are brawny, big and tall
But this six foot seven woman, she'd make midgets of them all



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2004)