Gonna tell you a story that you won’t believe,
But I fell in love last Friday evenin’ with a girl I saw on a barroom T.V. screen.
Well, I was just gettin’ ready to get my hat, when she caught my eye and I put it back;
And I ordered myself a couple o’ more shots and beers. The night…
That I fell in love with a roller derby queen (round ‘n’ round, oh round ‘n’ round)
The meanest hunk o’ woman that anybody ever seen, down in the arena.
She’s a five-foot-six and two-fifteen, a bleached blonde mamma with a streak of mean;
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight.
And the roller derby program said that she were built like a ‘Frigerator with a head’,
The fans called her “Tuffy”, but all her buddies called her “Spike”. You know…
That I fell in love with a roller derby queen (round ‘n’ round, oh round ‘n’ round)
The meanest hunk o’ woman that anybody ever seen, down in the arena.
Round ‘n’ round, go round ‘n’ round. Round ‘n’ round, go round ‘n’ round. Round ‘n’ round.
Well, I could not help but fall in love with this heavy duty woman I been speakin’ of
Things looked kind of bad until the day she skated into my life.
Well, she might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that;
She’s my big blonde bomber, my heavy-handed Hackensack mamma. You know…
That I fell in love with a roller derby queen (round ‘n’ round, oh round ‘n’ round)
The meanest hunk o’ woman that anybody ever seen, down in the arena.
Round ‘n’ round, go round ‘n’ round. Round ‘n’ round, go round ‘n’ round. Round ‘n’ round.
1973 – Jim Croce – Album: Life and Times