Songwriter: Smiley Lewis Victor Young
Producer: Robert Mersey
Trousers drag on, slowly drag on through the street
Yes, I'm walking, but I'm walking without feet
I'm not finding foot at all
With what's too big and what's too small
But sam, sam, you promised me both ends would meet
You made the coat and vest fit the best
You made the linen nice and strong
But sam, you made the pants too long
You made the tip lapel look so oh swell
Who am I to say that you're wrong?
But sam, you made the pants too long
They got the belt, and they got suspenders
So what can they lose?
But what good are belts, what good suspenders
When the pants are hanging over the shoes?
You feel the winter breeze up and down the knees
The belt is where the tie belongs
'cause sam, sam, sam
You made the pants too long
You know what I mean, sam?
Yes, I'm walking, but I'm walking without feet
I'm not finding foot at all
With what's too big and what's too small
But sam, sam, you promised me both ends would meet
You made the coat and vest fit the best
You made the linen nice and strong
But sam, you made the pants too long
You made the tip lapel look so oh swell
Who am I to say that you're wrong?
But sam, you made the pants too long
They got the belt, and they got suspenders
So what can they lose?
But what good are belts, what good suspenders
When the pants are hanging over the shoes?
You feel the winter breeze up and down the knees
The belt is where the tie belongs
'cause sam, sam, sam
You made the pants too long
You know what I mean, sam?
more tracks from the album
Book of Memories
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Don’t Rain on My Parade
- I’m All Smiles
- My Lord and Master
- Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long
- Don’t Like Goodbyes
- Why Did I Choose You
- How Much of the Dream Comes True?
- Free Again
- The Kind of Man a Woman Needs
- My Man
- My Coloring Book
- Gotta Move
- Will He Like Me?
- Medley (Second Hand Rose/Give Me the Simple Life/I Got Plenty of Nothin’/Brother, Can You Spare a Di
From the albums
- Second Hand Rose (EP) (1966)
- Book of Memories (1995)
Barbra Streisand popular songs
- Don’t Rain on My Parade
- The Way We Were
- Someday My Prince Will Come
- Woman in Love
- My Man
- Memory
- I’m the Greatest Star
- Don’t Lie to Me
- Guilty
- Funny Girl
- Evergreen (2014)
- I Finally Found Someone
- People (2014)
- People
- I’d Rather Be Blue Over You
- Papa, Can You Hear Me?
- You Are Woman, I Am Man
- If I Could
- A Piece of Sky
- What Kind of Fool
- I Still Can See Your Face
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- It Had to Be You (2014)
- Come Rain or Come Shine (2014)