Roller Derby Queen — Jim Croce
Chords and lyrics for Roller Derby Queen by Jim Croce (key of E).
Intro
[E]
Spoken Intro
You know, up until last year, most of my musical experience was centered around bar rooms,
country and western bars, kind of places you see in movies like Easy Rider.
It's three or four chrome -plated pickup trucks sitting out front, a rifle rack in the back window.
And you get up on a stage to play and they have you surrounded by chicken wire
so that you don't get injured by beer bottles and flying pitchers, as all this stuff is going on.
I met a lot of characters in these places and a lot of them I ended up putting into songs.
This is a song about a woman who I met one night.
I was sitting down playing and she was sitting about ten feet away from me
and every time I watched her clap I could see the fat under her arm jiggling back and forth like that.
It was a beautiful sight. I knew that I had to write a tune about her.
So I started talking to her. It turned out that she came from Texas and she used to be in a roller derby.
So I knew right then that anybody that heavy and that small, I had to have a tune written about her,
we don't usually do it at home because her husband is a state trooper
and he could really, really mess up a nice day. I think he got upset.
So we're going to do it here though. It's called I fell in love with the roller derby queen.
Verse 1
I was a little late but [A/C#]I fell in love last Friday evening with the [B]girl I saw on [A/C#]the bar room TV screen.
[C#m7][Asus2]Well I was [E]just getting ready to get my hat.
When she [A]caught my eye and I put it back and [A#]I [B]ordered myself a [Amaj7]couple of more shots and beers.
Chorus
[E]The [C#m7]night that [G]I fell in love with a roller [A]derby queen.
Round and [E]round, all round [C#m7/E]and round, the [G]penis hunk of woman that anybody [A]ever seen.
Verse 2
[B]Down in [B7]the arena she was [E]five foot six, the two -fifteen, [A]a beached blonde farmer with a streak of mean.
She [A#][E]knew how to knock her [A]land, she knew how to scuffle and fight.
[E][Amaj7/C#][Asus2]And a roller [E]derby program [A][Bm7]said [A]that she would feel like a refrigerator with a head.
Verse 3
[A#]A [B7]fan called her Tuffy, [A/C#]but all her buddies called her Spike.
Chorus
[E][A/C#][E]The [C#m7]night that [Em/G]I fell in love [G]with a roller [A]derby queen.
[E]Round and round, all round [C#m7]and round, the [Em]penis hunk of [G]woman that [A]anybody ever seen.
Interlude
[B5][Asus2]Down [B7]in the arena.
Round and [E/G#][A]round.
[E7] [Amaj7/G#] [G] [A] [E7/D] [A] [A#maj7] [B7] [Amaj7/C#] [Asus2] [C#m7] [Asus2]
Verse 4
Well I could [E]try to help it, but to fall in love with [A/C#]this heavy duty woman I've been speaking of.
[A#]Things [B7]were kind of bad until [A]the day she skated into my life.
Verse 5
[E][G][C#m7][Asus2]Well she might [E]be nasty, she might be fat, [A/C#]but I never met a person who could tell her that she's [A#/D]my beached [B7]blonde farmer.
[A/C#]My heavy -ended hackensack mama.
Chorus
[E]The [C#m7/G#]night that [G]I fell in love with a roller [A]derby queen.
[E][C#m7]Round and round, all round and round, the [G]penis hunk of woman that anybody [A]ever seen.
Outro
[A#][B7]Down in the arena.
[E/G#] [Amaj7/G#] [E7] [A] [A#maj7] [B] [Amaj7] [E] [F] [C]