Hey you, fat man (Hey you, fat man) Leave my girl alone Hey you, fat man (Hey you, fat man) Leave my girl alone If you don't have a girl Go and get one
Sittin' with the fat man Tryin' to get a loan Talkin' about horses And the women that we've known Spittin' on the sidewalk Squintin' into the sun Greetin
Spotcheck Billy got down on his hands and knees He said "Hey mama, hey let me check your oil all right?" She said "No, no honey, not tonight. Come back
I stand in a wide flat land No shadow or shade of a doubt Whore the megaphone man Met the girl with her hand that's Covering most of her mouth Fall in
every day is a Monday in the house up on the hill they're taking out the windows but we're working up there still till the sun goes down you can hear
You went away and left me long time ago Now you come back knockin' on my do' I hear you knockin' but you can't come in I hear you knockin', go back where
One night of sin Is what I'm now payin' for The things I did and I saw Would make a [Incomprehensible] stand still Don't call my name It makes me feel
So many tears Since you went away I'll always think of you Each night and day Someday, someday, my darlin' I won't be troubled no mo' Trouble, trouble
{The first thing I recorded, I'm gonna play right now It was called a fat man and I recorded it in 1949} They call, they call me the fat man 'Cause I
Don't want to be a fat man People would say that I was just good fun I would rather be a thin man I am so glad to go on being one, yeah Too much to carry
This is the last time, this time I will win It took a long time to gain this weight It will take a long time to lose it again I will have only water
Fat man at the window Bet you know why Fat man at the window Nobody wants to buy Fat man, fat man, fat man Nobody wants to know him Fat man Fat man at
Thought that I was nothing more than one of your pawns While you stormed your ladder rung by rung Though your conscience bled about everything you said
I stand in a wide flat land No shadow or shade of a doubt Where the megaphone man Met the girl with her hand that's Covering most of her mouth Fall in
Sittin' with the fat man Tryin' to get a loan Talkin' about the horses And the women that we've known Spittin' on the sidewalk Squintin' into the sun
I want to go where the good ones go I want to know what the good ones know I want to go, won't you take me with you? I want to go, won't you take me
Don't want to be a fat man, people would think that I was just good fun. Would rather be a thin man, I am so glad to go on being one. Too much to carry
