Hair
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Whether it be on the top of one's head or somewhere else entirely, hair has shown up many times in TMBG songs. Wigs, toupees, and their ilk, though, are covered in Artificial Body Parts and aren't repeated here unless the song makes some other reference to hair.
Central theme
- 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye - "All right, I'm playing all the hairs on my body"
- Bangs
- Bread Hair
- Fu Manchu
- Goatee
- Greasy Kid Stuff - "I've got the hairdo of a child..."
- I Am A Human Head - "Just the scalp and the hair / I don't like the scalp, just the hair" and "I am only one human hair"
- Jackie The Clipper
- Let Your Hair Hang Down
- Long White Beard
- Ponytail
- Purple Toupee
- Radio They Might Be Giants 2 - "You wore a feather in your hair"
- Santa's Beard
- Somebody Stole My Hairstyle
- Why Did You Grow A Beard?
Briefly mentioned
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "She walks with the beard of a rainbow"
- Am I Awake? - "And something else besides my hair is growing from my head"
- Anaheim - "...drag me by my hair..."
- Another First Kiss - "Always worrying about their hair"
- Au Contraire - "Wash that notion from your hair"
- Best Of Spin The Dial - "...diamonds in her hair...", "I'm blind with long scraggly hair", "I've got long blonde flowing hair", "...long hair and a beer voice"
- The Big Big Whoredom - "There's plenty more heads of hair"
- Can You Find It? - "Is it growing in the hair?"
- Caroline, No - "Where did your long hair go?"
- Doom Doom - "We threw a bomb in your hair"
- The Famous Polka - "Her hair is blonde and mine is brown."
- Fibber Island - "...mittens in our hair"
- Four Of Two - "I'd grown a beard"
- Fun Assassin - "...pulling out my hair"
- Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - "I'm a long-haired hippie kitten"
- I Blame You - "...finds her old hair comb..."
- I Need Some Lovin' - "Big hair"
- Impossible - "If you wish you had violet hair"
- It Was A Very Good Year - "We would pull each other's hair"
- Kings Of The Cave - "Never have to shave"
- Let's Get This Over With - "...you can feel your hair grow"
- Make It The Same - "Was it the first time you were there that we talked about my hair?"
- Mammal - "One of us might lose his hair"
- Mario Speaks - The travails of TMBG's personal manager and stylist, who advises Linnell to "shave the beard and get yourself a hair transplant"
- The Mesopotamians - "Who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-daren"
- Moonbeam Rays - "Haircuts in the mirror now"
- Now That You're One Of Us - "If you pull on our hair..."
- Oh You Did - "How did the carton of milk get filled with shaved off puppy hairs?"
- Our Cannibal Friends - "We're gonna jam until our beards are long and white"
- Prepare - "Comb your hair and compose yourself "
- Protagonist - "I need a haircut"
- Replicant - "Replicant, what is that stuff in your hair?"
- Rocket Ship - "injured my hair"
- Rhythm Section Want Ad - "...new age hairstyle made of bones."
- Sleepwalkers - "Their rumpled hair"
- Spin The Country Dial - "Breeze through my hair"
- The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "I'm not losing my hair, It's getting shorter"
- They Might Be Giants - "Tabloid footprints in your hair"
- Upside Down Frown - "Black is white, and the rainbow has a beard"
- Vancouver - "Check out her hair"
- We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime - "Oh, Janie's hair is like her mom's"
- When The Lights Come On - "We will be growing mustaches", "Something's got me by the hair"
- Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? - "When my hair has all turned gray"
- Working Undercover For The Man - "Growing out my hair"
- You Are Old, Father William - "And your hair has become very white", "'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his gray locks"
Honorable mention
- Ana Ng - when played live, the phrase "human hair" is occasionally substituted for "humid air"
