Americký písničkář (zpěvák a kytarista), čerpající z folku, country, popu i rocku. Narozen v r. 1943 ve Philadephii. V r. 1966 napsal hudbu k TV dokumentu Miners´ Story. O rok později ve stěhuje do N.Y.C. První desky propadly a Croce se...

Píseň: Roller Derby Queen

Interpret:
Jim Croce
Album:
Life And Times
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 bar room 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 and round, oh round and round

The meanest hunk o' woman

That anybody ever seen

Down in the arena



She was five foot six and two fifteen

A bleached-blonde mama

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 was built like a 'fridgerator with a head

Her fans call her "Tuffy"

But all her buddies called her "Spike"



You know that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen

Round and round, oh round and round

The meanest hunk o' woman

That anybody ever seen

Down in the arena



Round and round, go round and round

Round and round, go round and round

Round and round



Well I could not help it

But to 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 mama



You know that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen

Round and round, oh round and round

The meanest hunk o' woman

That anybody ever seen

Down in the arena



Round and round, go round and round

Round and round, go round and round

Round and round