Skin And Bone

Written by: Ray Davies

Published by: Davray Music Ltd.

Chord file

Lyrics:

Fat Flabby Annie was incredibly big
She weighed just about sixteen stone
And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet
Now she looks like skin and bone
She looks like skin and bone

Do the meditation and yoga
And she's thrown away the good food guide
And she's given up the alcohol and pizzas
And the pies and now she looks as if she's ready to die,
You can't see her walk by

Don't eat no mashed potatoes,
Don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

Living on the edge of starvation
And she says she's got no appetite
And her father and her mother
And her sisters and her brothers
Couldn't see her when she walked by
You can't see her walk by.

She don't eat no mashed potatoes,
She don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

She used to be so cuddly,
She used to be so fat,
But oh what a sin cos she's oh so thin
That she lost all the friends that she had,
She looks like skin and bone

If you look flabby
And you feel overweight,
And you wanna lose a couple of stone,
Take a crash course diet do your daily exercises
And you'll look like skin and bone.

Come on rattle them bones,
Put your hands up to the ceiling,
Bend your hips and touch your toes,
Do your daily exercises,
You're gonna look like skin and bone,

Don't eat no mashed potatoes,
Don't eat no buttered scones
Don't eat no carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

This song can be found on the following releases:

stereo mix (3:36), recorded Aug-Sep 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London

live, stereo mix (3:59), recorded 3 Mar, 1972 at Carnegie Hall, New York

live, stereo mix, shortened edit (3:08), recorded 3 Mar, 1972 at Carnegie Hall, New York

mono mix, BBC recording, recorded 5 May, 1972 at Studio T1, Transcription Service, Kensington House, London

mono mix, BBC recording (2:34), recorded 5 May 1972 at Kensington House Studio T-1, London

live, stereo mix (5:41), recorded 14 Jul, 1974 at Hippodrome Theatre, Golders Green, London

live, stereo mix (3:31), recorded 24 Dec, 1977 at Rainbow Theatre, London

stereo mix, by The Spivs, recorded 2000

stereo mix, as "Skinn og bein" by Veldig Respektable Menn, recorded 2004

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