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Island Girl Lyrics

I see your teeth flash, Jamaican honey so sweet
Down where Lexington cross 47th Street
She's a big girl, she's standing six foot three
Turning tricks for the dudes in the big city

Island girl
What you wanting with the white man's world
Island girl
Black boy want you in his island world
He want to take you from the racket boss
He want to save you but the cause is lost
Island girl, island girl, island girl
Tell me what you wanting with the white man's world

She's black as coal but she burn like a fire
And she wrap herself around you like a well worn tire
You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake
He one more gone, he one more John who make the mistake
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Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

You guys. Guys. The lyric is straightforward but if you listen to the soundscape you will hear the twinge of irony. This is one of his most rockin' albums...let's not sully it, ya?

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Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

Any song about a hooker is an instant classic as far as I'm concerned ;)

Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

Is this song really about a prostitute? Can anyone confirm this? Haha

Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

I believe that this song is about a woman who comes from Jamaica and finds out her only way to make a living is to prostitute herself. Meanwhile there are a lot of men back in Jamaica that would love to take her for a wife. However, she's stuck in her prostitution life wherever she's gone. JMO

Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

I also want to add that the final line sounds like she kills her Johns after they have sex with her.

Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

The song is about a male transsexual prostitute.

Cover art for Island Girl lyrics by Elton John

obviously reginald just did not like anyone who isn't white [preferably European] and this was a veiled way of staying 'stay right where you are'

@exobscura Anyone who knows ANYTHING about Elton John knows he doesn’t write the lyrics.

@exobscura Elton (or Reginald as it were) doesn't even write the lyrics. That would be Bernie Taupin.