Ugliest Girl In The World

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Bob Dylan

One of two songs Robert Hunter's songs that Bob Dylan recorded on his 1988 album "Down In The Groove".

This was one of a set of lyrics Hunter had given Jerry Garcia in 1986 for Jerry to potentially work up as Grateful Dead songs. But according to Steve Parish this one was "too mean" for Jerry's taste. The set of lyrics may subsequently have been shown to Dylan who picked this one.

The woman that I love, she got a hook in her nose
Her eyebrows meet, she wears second hand clothes
She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop
I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop

Chorus
You know I love her
Yeah I love her
I'm in love with the ugliest girl in the world

If I ever lose her I will go insane
I go half crazy when she calls my name
When she says babababababy I l-l-love you
There ain't nothing in the world that I wouldn't do

[chorus]

The woman that I love, she got two flat feet
Her knees knock together walking down the street
She cracks her knuckles and she snores in bed
She ain't much to look at but like I said

[chorus]

I don't mean to say that she got nothing goin'
She got a weird sense of humor that's all her own
When I get low she sets me on my feet
Got a five inch smile but her breath is sweet

[chorus]

The woman that I love she a got a prizefighter nose (note 1)
Cauliflower ears and a run in her hose
She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop
I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop

[chorus]