TWO TON TESSIE

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Song Title
TWO TON TESSIE
Writers
Turk, Handman
Publisher
CROMWELL MUSIC, INC. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
US
Themes/Keywords
1920's, Big, Fat, Girl, Heavy, Joke, Nashville, Silly
Lyrics
Down in Nashville, Tennessee,
There’s a sight you oughta see,
But as long as you can’t get down there,
I’ll tell you all so listen to me.

There’s a girl named Tessie Town,
And she weighs about four hundred pounds,
She’s fat and fair, she don’t care,
‘Cause the boys all hang around.

They call her Two Ton Tessie from Tennessee,
Holds ten sweeties up on her knee,
When she does, all the fun begins,
When they play tennis on her double chin.

They all answer to her demands,
And bring her tires for wedding bands,
But I just got a little inside tip,
They promised her a nightclub on her hip,
Yeah, Two Ton Tessie from Nashville, Tennessee.

Ev’ry time she struts around
She puts on an extra pound,
But it doesn’t seem to worry her,
The weight is making Tessie renowned.

Is a-trying to reduce,
And she’s got a good excuse,
Fat and fair but she don’t care,
‘Cause the boys all hang around.

They call her Two Ton Tessie from Tennessee,
Goes in swimming up to her knee,
Once she went in to her neck,
The tide rose up and made the town a wreck.

She was hit on the railroad track,
Engines hit her and bounced right back.
Her appendix had to come out fast,
They couldn’t operate so they had to blast
On Two Ton Tessie from Nashville, Tennessee.

On a streetcar I heard ‘em say,
Six men gave her a seat one day,
All the baseball players have stopped their gym,
They run around Tessie just to stay in trim,
Two Ton Tessie from Knoxville, I mean-a Memphis,
Oh-ah Nashville, Tennessee.

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