Roller Derby Queen - Jim Croce

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[Verse]

Gonna tell you

 a story you w

on't believe
     
But I fell in 

love last Frid

ay evening
            
With a girl I 

            
saw on the bar

             
 room TV scree


n


Well I was jus

t getting read

y to grab my h

at
     
When she caugh

t my eye and I

 put it back
            
And I ordered 

              
myself a coupl

            
e more shots a

         
nd beers

[Chorus]
            
The night that

             
 I fell in lov

            
e with a Rolle

         
r Derby Queen
(round and round, oh round and round)
             
Meanest hunk o

             
f woman that a

           
nybody ever se

en 

Down in the arena

[Verse]

She was five-f

oot-six and tw

o-fifteen
    
A bleached-blo

nd mama with a

 streak of mea

n
            
She knew how t

              
o knuckle and 

            
she knew how t

              
o scuffle and 


fight


The roller der

by program sai

d
    
That she was b

uilt like a 'f

rigerator with

 a head
            
Her fans calle

              
d her Tuffy Bu

            
t all her budd

              
ies called her


 Spike

[Chorus]
            
The night that

             
 I fell in lov

            
e with a Rolle

         
r Derby Queen
(round and round, oh round and round)
             
Meanest hunk o

             
f woman that a

           
nybody ever se

en 

Down in the arena

[Bridge]

Round and roun

d, go round an

d round

Round and roun

d, go round an

d round
         

[Verse]

Well I could n

ot help it but

 I fell in lov

e
     
With this heav

y duty woman I

've been speak

ing of
            
Things were ki

              
nda bad till t

            
he day she ska

            
ted into my li

fe


Well she might

 be nasty, and

 she might be 

fat
     
But I never me

t a person who

 would tell he

r that
            
She's my bleac

              
h blonde bombe

            
r, my heavy-ha

              
nded hackensac

  
k mama

[Chorus]
            
The night that

             
 I fell in lov

            
e with a Rolle

         
r Derby Queen
(round and round, oh round and round)
             
Meanest hunk o

             
f woman that a

           
nybody ever se

en 

Down in the arena

[Bridge]

Round and roun

d, go round an

d round

Round and roun

d, go round an

d round
         

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