Tunie: Great Big Words

About

A song by Tom Chapin. Listen to it here.

When I was a little kid, a diminutive juvenile,

I liked my folks to read to me, I was an eager bibliophile.

Now I love words for how they sound

And how they communicate.

Perhaps I should explain myself, that is, elucidate.

Great big words, I like big words.

Letter by letter, the bigger the better

Great big words. La la la la la la la la la la!

Now maybe you're adept at sports or excellent at school,

Maybe you're vainglorious,

Which means you think you're cool.

But give me a massive ideogram,

A big word to make my point.

When you can verbalize yourself

You can really rock the joint.

Great big words, I like big words.

I get a thrill out of every syllable

Great big words.

My word of the week last week was "unique"

People thought I was one of a kind.

When my word of the day was "distingue"

People said I was very refined.

But they look at me like I'm an alien

When I say things like "sesquipedalian".

But what, me worry? I can't go wrong

With a word that's a foot and one half long.

Big words are prodigious terms

Now don't they sound delicious?

They impress your teachers, confuse your parents

And make your friends suspicious.

But that's okay we'll start a trend

That soon will sweep the nation;

The hyper-linguistic polysyllabic speech association.

Great big words, I like big words.

No extra charge if it's very large, those

Great big words.

Great big words, I like big words.

Letter by letter the bigger the better

Great big words. La la la la la la la la la la !

(Reiterate please!) La la la la la la la la la la !

(Diminuendo.) La la la la la la la la la la !

(Grand finale!) La la la la la la la la la la!