Scrap Your Fat-Mildred Bailey

[ti:Scrap Your Fat] [ar:Mildred Bailey] [al:Sunday Monday or Always, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Scrap Your Fat - Mildred Bailey [00:05.04]Written by：J. Burke [00:10.09]Miss Suzy Lee was a pretty girl [00:13.57]But she wasn't no wearin' slacks [00:16.22] [00:16.94]Two hundred or so [00:18.70]Said the weight machines [00:20.83]So she couldn't join the Marines [00:22.66]Or the waves or the wacs [00:25.14] [00:25.73]Miss Suzy wrote to Washington [00:28.75]I'd like to do my bit [00:30.71] [00:31.40]But everywhere they tell me [00:34.43]I'm too heavy where I save [00:36.98] [00:37.97]In record time from Washington [00:40.96]Came this official note [00:42.93] [00:43.53]And the simple gist of the note [00:45.76] [00:46.51]They wrote [00:47.69] [00:48.33]I quote [00:49.51] [00:51.09]Quote [00:51.71] [00:53.42]Scrap your fat [00:55.14] [00:56.23]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [00:59.66] [01:00.77]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:04.60] [01:05.39]For victory [01:09.31] [01:11.50]Scrap your fat [01:13.31] [01:14.44]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:18.03] [01:19.12]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:22.90] [01:23.75]For victory [01:27.73] [01:29.47]A pound of fat [01:31.67]Makes a lot of powder [01:33.62] [01:34.44]Take it to your corner store [01:37.57] [01:38.60]Then say to the grocer [01:41.37] [01:41.88]What do you know Sir [01:43.60]I still have plenty more [01:46.76]I work [01:47.42] [01:48.02]Scrap your fat [01:49.88] [01:50.86]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:54.22] [01:55.54]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:59.21] [01:59.95]For victory [02:04.21] [02:06.10]Suzy gave up singin' in a local dive [02:10.62]To volunteer her service in the salvage drive [02:14.59] [02:15.13]She answered when they asked her [02:17.00]Can you gather fat [02:18.86] [02:19.72]How can you look at me [02:21.32]And ask a question like that [02:23.58] [02:24.14]Then she met a handsome wealthy [02:26.85]Millionaire [02:28.70]He and she they had themselves a flaming affair [02:33.21]Though you offered gifts that cost a grand apiece [02:37.20] [02:37.73]Suzy made him pay her off in bacon grease [02:42.28]Suzy's great in helpin' in her country's defense [02:46.75]And when I say she's great [02:48.49]I mean she's really immense [02:51.22]She wants to do her part to help the fighting boys [02:55.63]So now the lady's makin' with the avoirdupois [03:00.47]Scrap your fat [03:02.20] [03:03.24]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [03:06.62] [03:08.07]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [03:11.70] [03:12.59]For victory [03:17.68]I guess I have to scrap my fat [03:20.25] [03:21.56]Oh we're gonna scrap my fat [03:25.21] [03:27.33]Oh scrap my fat [03:30.78]For victory [03:35.33] [03:36.61]A pound of fat makes a lot of powder [03:40.78] [03:41.80]Won't you lend a helpin' hand [03:46.54]Get out in the kitchen [03:48.55] [03:49.12]Start in pitchin' [03:51.11]Send in the fat of the land [03:53.94] [03:54.51]My [03:55.06] [03:55.58]Scrap your fat [03:57.42] [03:58.57]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [04:02.07] [04:03.10]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [04:07.70]For victory