C90: Songs about short men

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Could this even exist? I’d like songs about short human men (ie no gnomes, dwarves, tall marionettes, etc). They can be mentioned briefly, even, just so long as the song includes a short man.

All I can think of is Pablo Picasso “He was only five foot three...”

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

'short people' by randy newman?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

'don't want no short short man'

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

iggy pop "five foot one"

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

joe henry "short man's room"

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know if there's any reference to it in the lyrics, but this just makes me think of that old Paul Simon video "you can call me al" (?) where paul is of midget proportions and Chevy Chase looks like manute bol

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Skee-Lo - "i wish"

― rex jr., Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Magnetic Fields, "Josephine"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a Mekons song, I think it's "Our Bad Dream"?:

He's as small as a 12-year-old
With a moustache and flares
Purple-yellow bruising on his gibbon skull
Through thinning hair

He says he has no money
I say "Man, you look so small
Out of the ground at an angle
Like a stump in the fall."

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan has an early song ("Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," maybe? If not, that can go on there too!) where he mentions a one-eyed midget. And Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys IS a one-eyed midget.

Also: "Tall Order For a Short Guy," Earthquake, 1974.

― chuck, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

And I'm sure Kid Rock talked about Joe C in a couple songs, too.

― chuck, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan in prophesizing Bushwick Bill SHOCKA!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The Minutemen: "Little Man With A Gun In His Hand"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf

― Amarga (Amarga), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Minor Threat- "Small Man, Big Mouth"

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Of Montreal- "Minature Philosopher"

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

cannanes - king of lilliput

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

prince - "my name is prince"

― tony bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

'Waterloo'

― dave q, Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!", Napoleon XIV

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Quarter of A Man" David Lindley

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Aphex Twin - "Funny Little Man"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 27 February 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Abba - Waterloo

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything by the Dwarves. Or Ken Dodd & His Diddy-men. Or P Diddy.

― Nick H, Friday, 28 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Steely Dan, "Third World Man" ("when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Costello - 'Poor Napoleon'

Tom Waits - 'Heigh Ho (It's off to work we go)'

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 28 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Soft Machine - Why am I So Short? 'I'm nearly five foot seven tall...'

― thrak, Friday, 28 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

leonard nimoy - the ballad of bilbo baggins

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 February 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

5'1 - liz phair ?

― lx, Friday, 4 April 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The Moody Blues, "I'll Be Level With You": "Little guy / Little hands, little eyes / And lots of time"

I can't believe I remember that. I haven't had that album for 20 years.

― Neudonym, Friday, 4 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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