Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1965 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1993. See the article "Girls Voices Rising" by Sarah Pirtle in Issue #35 (Spring 2000) of Pass It On!, which discusses this song.

Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

They call me a dupe of this and the other,
Call me a puppet on a string, they,
They don't know my head's full of me
And that I have my own special thing,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

I have lived since early childhood
Figuring out what's going on, I,
I know what hurts, I know what's easy,
When to stand and when to run,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

So please stop shouting in my ear, there's
Something I want to listen to, there's
A kind of birdsong up somewhere, there's
Feet walking the way I mean to go,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- The Muse of Parker Street
---- The Malvina Reynolds Songbook

Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Peter Blood-Patterson: Rise Up Singing: The Group-Singing Song Book [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 1988), p. 249
---- Sing Out!, Volume 20(3) (1971), p. 26
---- Rosalie Sorrels, ed.: What, Woman, and Who, Myself, I Am (Sonoma, CA: Wooden Shoe, 1974), p. 73

Malvina Reynolds recordings of this song:
---- Malvina Reynolds
---- Virgo Rising; The Once and Future Woman (Thunderbird LP 7037, 1973)
---- Malvina Reynolds (2007)
---- listen to youtube.com video