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Big Beautiful Lady
(Bensi, Hampshire, Hayday, Kent)
I'm in love with a beautiful lady
She's got two kids and is having my baby
I'm in love with a beautiful lady
She's underpaid but just look what she gave me
She looks great dressed in Dagenham Burberry
Her teeth are clean but she's a little bit dirty
What a girl she smokes like a chimney
I'm so in love with my beautiful lady
She's really someone I can hold onto get into oh yeah
Overweight but underrated she's so what I need
I wanna girl with a big personality
I found the right one and it's just like she's made for me
We'd all love to have a beautiful lady
And I found one built for comfort not for speed
I'm in love with a beautiful lady
No I'm in love with a beautiful lady
No I'm in love with a beautiful lady
I'm in love with a beautiful lady
But she's in love with a bit of an arse
Drives a Maserati earns a six figure salary
She's really someone I can hold onto get into oh yeah
Overweight but underrated she's so what I need
Maybe I won't see you anymore
No I can't sleep with you anymore
I wanna girl with a big personality
I found the right one and it's just like she's made for me
We'd all love to have a beautiful lady
And I found one built for comfort not for speed
Chav boy meets chav girl, chav boy loves chav girl but chav girl likes rich boy. This sort of stuff goes on everyday in Dagenham!
The conception of this crazy song was Rich playing two chords in Ben's basement over and over and thinking to himself this has some promise. Marco started singing a melody, and off the top of his head Ben added the lyric: "Making love to a beautiful lady"... the song was born! A version was recorded there and then, the original demo has a lot of energy (listen over on RHS) which we've tried to recapture in the final version.
Lyrically the song was started on the train to Durham in June 2006, when Mortimer went on tour up North, hence Matt Hayday having the first lyrical input in a Mortimer song, God help us! Crazy ideas were bounced back and forth until the first and second verses took shape.
We liked the idea that this beautiful lady is a minger in most men's eyes but to one particular chavvy guy she's beautiful. So the song puts the ficticious girl down at every opportunity but always come back to how lovely she is!
Lyrically the song has changed a lot with most words being tweaked by Rich and Ben down various pubs. Ben came up with the Maserti line first it was a Beamer (BMW) and other sports cars.
Musically it has a been a tortuous road with Rich wanting to change the arrangement at every opportunity. But finally he got worn out and a concensus was reached!
