‘Legs’ is a song by the band ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was released as the fourth single in May 1984 more than a year after the album came out. It reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (their highest-charting single on the pop charts), and the dance mix version of the song peaked at number 13 on the dance charts.
In a 1985 interview with Spin magazine, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons explained the inspiration for this song: "I was driving in Los Angeles, and there was this unusual downpour. And there was a real pretty girl on the side of the road. I passed her, and then I thought, 'Well, I'd better pull over' or at least turn around and offer her a ride, and by the time I got back she was gone. Her legs were the first thing I noticed. Then I noticed that she had a Brooke Shields hairdo that was in danger of falling. She was not going to get wet. She had legs and she knew how to use them."
A video was made for ‘Legs’, depicting a timid young female store clerk who is given confidence by a trio of sexy women, with the band mysteriously appearing and disappearing. ‘Legs’ was the third instalment of a trilogy of similarly themed videos shot by Tim Newman for Eliminator, and it won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Group. The video was placed into heavy rotation on MTV, which helped to lift the single high on the charts.
Dean Guitars created the pair of matching guitars shown in the music video, based on the Dean Z model, but painted white and covered in fluffy white sheepskin. Dean also painted the band's "ZZ" logo extending the length of each fretboard. Gibbons had picked up the sheepskin while touring in Scotland, and sent it to Dean for the custom project. Both the 4-string bass guitar and 6-string standard required the sheepskin to be trimmed away from the strings so that they could sustain. The glue was still drying on the sheepskin covering the tuning pegs when the guitars were couriered to the video shoot.
Label – Warner Bros.
Songwriters – Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
Producer – Bill Ham
SONG LYRICS
[Verse 1]She got legs
She knows how to use them
She never begs
She knows how to choose them
[Verse 2]
She holding leg
Wonder how to feel them
Would you get behind them
If you could only find them?
[Chorus]
She's my baby
She's my baby
Yeah, it's alright
Oh, yeah
[Verse 3]
She's got hair
Down to her fanny
She's kinda jet set
Try undo her panties
[Verse 4]
Every time she's dancing
She knows what to do
Everybody wants to see
If she can use it
[Chorus]
She is so fine
She's all mine
Girl, you got it right
Ooh
[Instrumental Break 1:59-2:36]
[Verse 1]
She got legs
She knows how to use them
She never begs
She knows how to choose them
[Verse 5]
She got a dime
All of the time
Stays out at night
Moving through time
[Chorus]
Oh, I want her
Shit I got to have her
The girl is alright
She's alright, oh
[Instrumental Outro 3:23-4:33]