Scrap Your Fat (Bonus Track)-Mildred Bailey

[ti:Scrap Your Fat (Bonus Track)] [ar:Mildred Bailey] [al:All of Me. The Complete Majestic / Savoy Sessions & More (Bonus Track Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Scrap Your Fat (Bonus Track) - Mildred Bailey [00:19.70]Miss Suzy Lee was a pretty girl [00:23.31]But she wasn't no wearin' slacks [00:26.49]Two hundred or so [00:28.36]Said the weight machines [00:30.49]So she couldn't join the Marines [00:32.55]Or the waves or the wacs [00:35.22]Miss Suzy wrote to Washington [00:38.37]I'd like to do my bit [00:40.65]But everywhere they tell me [00:43.96]I'm too heavy where I save [00:47.47]In record time from Washington [00:50.50]Came this official note [00:53.05]And the simple gist of the note [00:56.04]They wrote I quote quote [01:02.00] [01:03.08]Scrap your fat [01:05.86]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:09.26] [01:10.29]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:14.09] [01:14.95]For victory [01:18.40] [01:21.14]Scrap your fat [01:23.60]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:27.91] [01:28.68]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [01:32.51] [01:33.34]For victory [01:36.84] [01:38.77]A pound of fat makes a lot of powder [01:44.03]Take it to your corner store [01:48.10]Then say to the grocer [01:51.43]What do you know sir [01:53.17]I still have plenty more [01:55.94] [01:57.56]Scrap your fat [02:00.39]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [02:04.22] [02:04.96]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [02:08.68] [02:09.45]For victory [02:14.02] [02:15.69]Suzy gave up singin' in a local dive [02:20.09]To volunteer her service in the salvage drive [02:24.58]She answered when they asked her [02:26.26]Can you gather fat [02:29.30]How can you look at me [02:30.84]And ask a question like that [02:33.56]Then she met a handsome wealthy millionaire [02:38.26]He and she they had themselves a flaming affair [02:42.95]Though you offered gifts that cost a grand apiece [02:47.19]Suzy made him pay her off in bacon grease [02:51.76]Suzy's great in helpin' in her country's defense [02:56.20]And when I say she's great [02:58.07]I mean she's really immense [03:00.64]She wants to do her part to help the fighting boys [03:05.12]So now the lady's makin' with the avoirdupois [03:09.83]Scrap your fat [03:11.97] [03:12.56]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [03:16.81] [03:17.55]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [03:21.30] [03:21.85]For victory [03:27.09]I guess I have to scrap my fat [03:30.74]Oh we're gonna scrap my fat [03:34.65] [03:36.28]Oh scrap my fat [03:40.30]For victory [03:45.42] [03:46.22]A pound of fat makes a lot of powder [03:51.25]Won't you lend a helpin' hand [03:56.07]Get out in the kitchen [03:58.65]Start in pitchin' [04:00.59]Send in the fat of the land [04:04.00] [04:05.11]Scrap your fat [04:07.71]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [04:12.55]Oh mama won't you scrap your fat [04:17.02]For victory