The Smiths - Vicar in a Tutu
Time: 0:18
He just wants to live his life this way
A scanty bit of a thing
Chewing the decorative ring

inadequate; lacking in amplitude or quantity
Heard in 11 songs (1.4M+ combined views) — most famously in "Vicar in a Tutu" by The Smiths.
Updated August 12, 2026
Time: 0:18
He just wants to live his life this way
A scanty bit of a thing
Chewing the decorative ring

Time: 0:49
The mouse with the overbite explained how the rabbits were ensnared
'N the skinny scanty sylph trashed the apothecary diplomat
Inside the three-eyed monkey within inches of his toaster oven life

Time: 2:31
割とみだらなしぐさにも 恋をするよなことがある
まろやかな彼女の Scanty Style
なれ合いのムードが二人にもあるなら そのわけをなぜかとたどる

Time: 0:41
Wearing one of my shirts and what some call panty hose
Cause you look wicked in scanty clothes,
Long legs like an antelope

Time: 0:13
Scanty Skimpy
窮屈なんていやだわ

Time: 1:47
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Our garrison was scanty; a couple óf hundred or more.
De la Rey asked us to lay down arms to his three thousand Boers.

Time: 2:42
A little something to hold on to
A scanty guarantee
I don't know where she is headed

Time: 1:55
She just hurries right on by me
Carrying all those scanty costumes that she wore
And asked some sawed off cigar smoking cat

Time: 1:45
Put your hands up now fucking put your hand up
Scanty hands know you niggas need to lock in
Faith without work is dead so I gotta to put in Work

Time: 1:22
Through a crack upon the ceiling
We have just a scanty light
So it won't be too revealing

Time: 0:58
Peng ting dem like Mandy
Like Mandy, Dem gyal yah too scarse and scanty
she seh mi hood nice and handy
