Closest to the bone
Sweeter is the meat
Last slice of Virginia ham
Is the best that you can eat

Don´t talk about my baby
She´s slender but she´s sweet
Closest to the bone
And sweeter is the meat

Now she´d made a good thermometer
If she drank a glass of wine
She´s built just like a garter snake
She climbs up like a vine

My friends tell me I´m a fool
To love a girl like that
Here´s the raison I like ´em slim
Instead of big and fat

´Cause Closest to the bone
Sweeter is the meat
Last slice of Virginia ham
Is the best that you can eat

Now Don´t talk about my baby
She´s slender but she´s sweet
Umm, Closest to the bone
Sweeter is the meat

Let´s go

Yeah, let´s go, yeah, boy
Attaboy
One more, one more
One more,one more
Yeah, boy

In the moonlight
Yeah, closest to the bone, yeah
Ahh, look out now

Now she´d make a first class fontain pen
If she only knew how to write
Her figure´s like a piece of string
Umm, she rolls up every night

Everybody thinks that I´m a nut
To love this lovely Worm
Boys there´s one raison I like ´em slim
Instead of round and firm

She´s slender but she´s sweet
Umm, Closest to the bone
Sweeter is the meat

Now don´cha talk about my baby
She´s slender but she´s sweet, umm
Closest to the bone
Umm, Sweet, I got another one now
Listen here

Umm, she´d make a fine piccolo
If she only stayed on key
Boy, she´s shaped like a rubber band
And she loves to snap at me

Everybody thinks I´m insane
To overlook her faults
But here´s the raison I lke ´en skinny
Instead of full and schmatlz

´Cause Closest to the bone
Sweeter is the meat
Last slice of Virginia ham
Is the best that you can eat

Don´t talk about my baby
She´s slender but she´s sweet
And it´s closest to the bone
And sweeter is the meat