Big Italian Rose Lyrics - Small Fred

She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine 

They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen" 

Smiling tourists in the picture back in sunny Italy 

Said she, "These pretty people don't look anything like me!" 

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"I'm a big Italian woman and I want the world to see 

All the big Italian women who look just like me 

You can take your slender models and their Fifth Avenue clothes 

But you'll never find a flower like the big Italian rose!" 

Well, the more she thought about it, the more it made her mad 

How they make you feel so ugly, they make you feel so bad 

Sell you junk food and booze then make you diet till you're dead 

She sat and wrote a letter and this is what it said: 

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"Well, I'm nearly fifty-seven, my hair is turning gray 

The dress I wore at twenty I cannot wear today 

Just an ordinary woman and it sure would make me glad 

Just for once to see someone like me in your ad." 

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Three weeks later came an answer, from New York it was sent 

Said, "We'd like to take your picture for our next advertisement." 

Soon magazines across the nation in a prominent place 

Showed a big Italian woman with a smile on her face. 

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