Gail Marten: Listen
Big Girl Blues
Finalist in the 2005 UK Songwriting Contest and the 2005 Finlanda's Vantaa Jazz Heritage Association Blues Songwriting Competition. Tongue-in-cheek lyric of a confident, sassy woman with a reluctant disclaimer at the end of catchy blues song.
I’m a big girl now I’m a big girl now I pay my own damn bills and find my own cheap thrills I’m a big girl now. I’m a big girl now Don’t need no help nohow I can run my own life Won’t be nobody’s old wife. I’m a big girl now. When I was a little girl I was taught to stand alone And like the Lady says God bless the child that’s got her own. Don’t need no one to bail me out Yes, I know what’s all about No one can knock me down Cause I have been around And I’m a big girl now. No one to tell me what to do No one to start me feeling blue Hey, I can sleep all day And dance the night away And spend my time with who-knows-who. last time: You know, I must confess There are sometimes I realize… If some big boy would come along And help me sing my song… …He’d cut this big girL down to size. ©1985 Gail Marten