Big Bad Jane

Jane Russell

Compositor: Peggy Lee

In the entertainment world, we have a kind of game
Everybody gets a pet nickname
And when I got in the movies, it was just the same
I got mine
Big Jane

(Big Jane)

Now you never really know when you might get that role
That you can play with all your heart and all of your soul
You might be typecast, and you might not be
But this is the way it happened to me
Big Jane

(Big Jane, Big Jane)
Oh, big bad Jane, hum, hum

When Howard Hughes found that wild outlaw
Who was fast on the trigger and quick on the draw
Who did they call to make the outlaw thaw?
They called upon a gal who could lay down the law
They called me

(Big Jane)

In Boston, you remember, they stopped it cold
For some reason or other, so I've been told
Mr. Hughes flew away in his great big plane
And who stuck around and got all the blame?
Me

(Big Jane, Big Jane)
Oh, big bad Jane, hum, hum

And then there was a picture with deer ski nose
We got to sing a song about buttons and bows
Bob played a dentist called Painless Pete
And every time I kissed, I knocked him off his feet
Big Jane

(Big Jane)

Then came the blonde, old Marilyn Monroe
Gemini shy, but easy to know
She was cuddly and sweet and seemed so small
She made old Jane feel ten feet tall
Big Jane

(Big Jane, Big Jane)
Oh, big bad Jane, hum, hum

Well now we've taken to the boards and lots of pretty clubs
And I've seen the world over in nary a rub
Folks said New Orleans, I'd certainly dig
Cause the World's Fair there is mighty big, and I'm big

(Big Jane)

Well, as Shakespeare said: What's in a name?
And I wanna tell you, I feel about the same
I don't quite know what the next role will be
But it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be me
Big Jane

(Big Jane, Big Jane)
Oh, big bad old Jane
(Big Jane)