Your Feet's Too Big

Writers: Benson, Fisher



Your feet's too big!

Two, three, four!

Who's that walkin' around here?
Mercy!
Sounds like a baby patter elephant to me!
I don't know why ev'rybody's
I'm not gonna sit here!

Say up in Harlem at a table for two,
There were four of us,
Me, your big feet and you.
From your ancles up you sure look sweet,
But from there down, there's just too much fuckin' feet!

Yeah, your feet's too big,
I don't want you 'cause your feets too big,
I hate you, yeah, your feets too big,
Yeah, I said baby, your feets are much too big.

(Da da doh da) - da doh da
(Where'd you get 'em?) - I got them.

Your gal she loves you, she thinks you're nice,
Got what it takes to be in paradise.
Takes a look at your face, likes your rig, boy,
Man, oh man. those things are too big.

Your feets too big,
I don't want you 'cause your feets too big
I hate you, your feets too big,
Yeh-yeh, I said your feets are much big.

Yeah, your paddle extremities are colossal,
To me you look like a fossil.
Well, you got me walkin' talkin' and squarkin'
'Cause your feets are much too big.

Yes, your feets too big, I don't want you,
Your feets too big, I hate you
Your feets too big.
Yeah, I said your feets are much too big,
Well, your feets too big,
Ah! Your feets too big,
Ow! Your Feets too big,
Baby, your feets are much too big

(Da da doh da) - da doh da
(Where'd you get 'em?) - I got them.
(Da da doh da) - da doh da
Hey!


- bill 3-02-2006 4:11 pm [add a comment]

...[w]hen Waller was performing a song, he often altered the lyrics and added asides that commented on a lyric or even the entire song, as he did at the end of “Your Feets Too Big,” which was written by Ada Benson and Fred Fisher (and Feets is apparently the spelling Benson and Fisher wanted, not Feet’s). After he had sung the Benson-and-Fisher lyrics, including “Your pedal extremities really are obnoxious,” he added “One never knows, do one?” Isn’t this an example of making a claim to authorship through elaboration?
(By the way, “Your Feets Too Big” was also recorded, years after Waller’s version, by Chubby Checker, who included Waller’s tag line, and, in 1962, by the Beatles, who did not include it. [Available on the CD The Beatles Live at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, 1962.])