FAT MAN

FAT MAN

Jethro Tull Fat Man (link to a YouTube)

Lyrics by Jethro Tull - Ian Anderson

This once was my favorite Tull song because I identified with the lyrics. At five I weighed 100 pounds. In college I gained 30 lbs. and got out of the draft and going to Vietnam (230 lbs.). However, in Utah I started riding a bike 20 miles every day and lost 70 lbs. Subsequently I found a woman who would love me in the morning and all the nighttime too. In 2007 when the market crashed and my clients stopped hiring, I slowly went from 200 to 300 lbs. In the last 3-4 years I have lost 50lbs., but being unable to walk on a treadmill or ride a bike and drinking wine has made it difficult to see the other side of being thin.

FAT MAN

Don't want to be a fat man, 

people would think that I was just good fun.

Would rather be a thin man, 

I am so glad to go on being one.

Too much to carry around with you,

no chance of finding a woman who

will love you in the morning and all the night time too.

Don't want to be a fat man, 

have not the patience to ignore all that.

Hate to admit to myself 

half of my problems came from being fat.

won't waste my time feeling sorry for him, 

I seen the other side to being thin.

Roll us both down a mountain and I'm sure 

the fat man would win