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Tall Thin Sam (Tune: Big Bad John)
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My Favourites Every mornin' at the plant you could see him drive up
In his Model T Ford called 'Buttercup'
And though Thin Sam was seven feet tall
If he was twenty feet away you couldn't see him at all
To say he's thin is to understate
He's no wider than a dinner plate
He'd look like a zipper if he stuck out his tongue
And turned around with his side to the sun
Sam didn't show up for work one day
He took a bath in his usual way
But he went down singin' gluggety glug
'Cause he forgot to get out before he pulled the plug
One day Sam got himself a bride
Who was four axe handles and an inch more wide
And so the story of the bride and groom
Who were fat and wide and skinny as a broom
Well Sam got ride of his Model T
'Cause it wouldn't hold his new cheree
And with overload springs up and down one side
He got a ten ton truck that was four yards wide
One day a man insulted his wife
And he got mad and started to fight
But you can't fight what you can't see
So the man got assaulted in the third degree
Then when the fight was almost through
Thin Sam's wife jumped in there too
That was the end of the masher and Sam
'Cause his wife sent 'em both to the promised land
Now Sam rides to a plant, I'm told
In a Model T that's made of gold
And when Sam closes both doors up
The name on the side reads 'Buttercup'.
