Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Big Girls Don't Cry (Four Seasons, The, 1962). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-24. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Big Girls Don't Cry," written by bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, was the Four Seasons' second release and second consecutive no. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962 (Whitburn, 2013). The song was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Whitburn, 2013). According to Bob Crewe (the Four Seasons' producer and co-writer of the song) stated that the song was "inspired by a line in the 1955 western 'Tennessee's Partner,' starring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Ronald Reagan. When Payne's character slap[ed] the blonde bombshell played by Fleming, he ask[ed] her what she [thought] about being slapped. She [got] up, compose[d] herself, and replie[d], 'Big girls don't cry'" (songfacts, 2022).

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Lyrics:

Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry

Big girls don't cry-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry?)
My girl said goodbye-yi-yi (my oh my)
My girl didn't cry (I wonder why)

(Silly boy) told my girl we had to break up
(Silly boy) hoped that she would call my bluff
(Silly boy) then she said to my surprise
"Big girls don't cry"

Big girls don't cry-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry?)

(Maybe) I was cru-you-uel (I was cruel)
Baby I'm a fool (I'm such a fool)

(Silly girl) "Shame on you" your mama said
(Silly girl) "Shame on you, you're cryin' in bed"
(Silly girl) "Shame on you, you told me lies"
Big girls do cry

Big girls don't cr-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big girls don't cry (that's just an alibi)
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry