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Big Boned Girl

from Stubble Bath by The Shorty Tubbs

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Why starve your only life to stifle stupid jokes?
World goes up in smoke. Where’d your brother go?
Running in the snow, home late with a cough.
Cough of don’t get off: the only life he knows.

Each meal like it’s your last, gobbled super fast.
Passed out at the piano in the sun.
Passers-by poke fun at your ample girth,
Ample like your worth, and birthright of a big boned girl.
Big boned girl.

Swing, utter to the left, utter to the right.
Supper girls’ in flight! Always at her best,
Utterly at rest,
Orange jellyroll, swallows my heart whole staking out her bow..

“Why don’t you pack another bowl?”
“Why don’t you pack another bowl?”
“Why don’t you pack another bowl?”
“Why don’t you pack another bowl?”

Big boned girl, Big boned girl,
So long as you exist, I’m ok with this world.

Big boned girl!
Big boned girl!
Big boned girl!
Big boned girl!

Mean jerks smirk and snub you, but you just let it slide.
You know that they’re all full of holes inside they’re trying to hide.
Fuck it, let’s just stay in and watch chickadee tv tonight.
And snuggle up right tight to someone who treats you right.

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from Stubble Bath, released July 17, 2012

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The Shorty Tubbs Fredericton, New Brunswick

An indie-rock, post-modern take on popular music from the past two centuries and counting, Shorty Tubbs straddles the universe like a colossus in short shorts. Looking for a descriptor with bite? Think sonic Doritos: oh so crunchy, practically too tasty, probably not good for you – but you don’t care. ... more

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