We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Extremely Righteous Appetite (by Odilon Green)

from Relevant Job Skills (FAWM Demos) by Grace Kendall

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

about

When we were assigned our random collab partners, I approached Odilon Green with the idea of creating two songs - each of us writing lyrics for one and music for the other. This was the set of lyrics he sent me, again along the competitive eating theme.

lyrics

VERSE 1

I was thinking back
To those 70s days
When female athletes
Gained so much praise
for breaking down
The glass ceilings in sport

Diane Crump
rode the Kentucky Derby
The first woman of NASCAR
was Janet Guthrie
And Billie Jean King
served the ultimate tennis retort

PRE-CHOURS

And then there was . . .

CHORUS
Little Arlene
So small and petite
But Little Arlene,
She really could eat
Every man thinks
He's the king of the table
But Little Arlene . . .
She earned that label

VERSE 2

Now, the Seventy-Sixers
Were a basketball team
With a halftime show
That made fans scream
'Cause Arlene's eating
Left mouths open in shock

One time she challenged
Five huge guys
Known as the Phil-ups
Each twice her size
Food was brought out
And she just said "let's rock"

PRE-CHORUS

Because she was . . .

CHORUS

VERSE 3

She ate twenty-three hot dogs
Twenty-two pizza slices
Sixteen large cokes
While the men were all in crisis
Even all together
They just could not compete

Their guts were all a-tumble
And as they left the floor
Arlene faced the crowd and said
She was ready to eat more
An Oyster eating contest
at the restaurant down the street

BRIDGE

And the thing that no one knew
Until the team staff went to pay
Arlene's bill at the hotel
Where she'd stayed before the game
Was that *before* the half-time show
And her triumphant food fight
She'd had a full-course roast beef dinner
Just to stoke her appetite

PRECHROUS

And that was . . .

CHORUS X2

credits

from Relevant Job Skills (FAWM Demos), released March 7, 2014
Lyrics by Odilon Green (odilongreen.bandcamp.com)
Music and performance by Grace Kendall

license

tags

about

Grace Kendall Asheville, North Carolina

Heartfelt music on ukulele, guitar and hammered dulcimer.

contact / help

Contact Grace Kendall

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Grace Kendall recommends:

If you like Grace Kendall, you may also like: