Big Girls Don't Cry (lyrics)

Born on the prairies, corn fed and tall

She was Miss Oklahoma, 1965

Gail was a beauty, she had it all

No one was more alive

She was just a pretend wife

Living it up in a expat town

Sharing the married name of a man

Who wasn’t even her own

She was a big girl, a beautiful girl

And so full of fun

But by the time I left Mexico

Her best years had run

Her casa was one of the finest in town

Her flower arrangements were crisp

Her dinner parties were legend

She talked with a bit of a lisp

She was a sensitive lover, and grateful

And a challenge to love in return

All six feet five inches of her

Had passion and energy to burn

She was a big girl, a beautiful girl

And so full of fun

But by the time I left Mexico

Her best years had run

We spent long hours naked,

Sweating in their bed by the pool

Waiting for the gravel drive to announce

Brooke was back and we had to cool

Just time from the first crunch of gravel

To when he came in the front door

To scramble into bathing suits

Get all our clothes off the floor

She was a big girl, a beautiful girl

And so full of fun

But by the time I left Mexico

Her best years had run

Brooke had a chica he kept in the city,
He was growing tired of Gail at last

Her time was soon coming,

Gail’s time was soon past

She wasn’t equipped for much

She was a chatelaine, not a wife

Besides parties, dinners and love

She wasn’t much good at real life

Miss Oklahoma, 1965

But she never wore the Tiara

She never heard Bert Parks sing to her

Never had tears smudge her mascara

She was a big girl, a beautiful girl

And so full of fun

But by the time I left Mexico

Her best years had run