She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine  They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen"  Smiling tourists in the picture back in sunny Italy  Said she, "These pretty people don't look anything like me!"  CHORUS:  "I'm a big Italian woman and I want the world to see  All the big Italian women who look just like me  You can take your slender models and their Fifth Avenue clothes  But you'll never find a flower like the big Italian rose!"  Well, the more she thought about it, the more it made her mad  How they make you feel so ugly, they make you feel so bad  Sell you junk food and booze then make you diet till you're dead  She sat and wrote a letter and this is what it said:  CHORUS  "Well, I'm nearly fifty-seven, my hair is turning gray  The dress I wore at twenty I cannot wear today  Just an ordinary woman and it sure would make me glad  Just for once to see someone like me in your ad."  CHORUS  Three weeks later came an answer, from New York it was sent  Said, "We'd like to take your picture for our next advertisement."  Soon magazines across the nation in a prominent place  Showed a big Italian woman with a smile on her face.  CHORUS