When my daughter Marisa was growing up she practiced and competed in figure skating for 8 years. Once she got into high school and started wanting to be involved in other activites it got harder and harder for her to find the time to practice so eventually she had to give up her love for figure skating but I knew in my heart that one day she would return to it. Fast forward 10 years. She has since moved to Boston, graduated college and still no ice skating. Then one day she called to tell me she's going back to skating. I was thrilled. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think she meant roller skating! Yes, my daughter plays Women's Flat Track Roller Derby. This song is for her. So proud of my Roller Derby Queen.
Gonna tell you a story, that you won't believe
But I fell in love last Friday evening
With the girl I saw on a bar room TV screen .
Well I was just getting ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye, and I put it back
And I ordered myself couple of more shots and beers
The night that I fell in love with a roller derby queen
around and round, a round and round
The meanest hunk of woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
She was 5 foot 6, two fifteen
A beach 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 called her Tuffy, but all her buddies called her Spike
Well I could not help it, but to fall in love
With this heavy duty woman I've been speaking of
Things were kinda bad, untill 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 bleach blonde bomber, my heavy handed Hackensack sack mama
The night that I fell in love with a roller derby queen
around and round, a round and round
The meanest hunk of woman that anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
Lyrics written by: Jim Croce
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