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Honky Tonk Women Lyrics
I met a gin-soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
I laid a divorcée in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then she covered me with roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme
Alright!
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
Yeah, it's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then she covered me with roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme
Alright!
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
Yeah, it's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme
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A honky-tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is a type of bar that provides musical entertainment (usually country music) to its patrons. A bar-room queen ~ Queen is a term used to refer to flamboyant or effeminate gay men. This is further backed up by him/her being big enough to carry the singer across her shoulder. Later he does a chick probably in a Country bar in New York City.
Honky talk women, male or female, hang out in Country music bars. He uses it here to refer to easy women. The song itself is about being on a drunk trying to get over a chick with easy women all around. The Black Box #306. Honky Tonk Women, has a verse about, strolling on the boulevards of Paris. He can get easy women all over the world, but he just can’t seem to get her off of his mind.
I love this song! It ain't a "deep" song or anything like that, but it just rocks like a bitch! :)
The title is "Honky Tonk WomEn." Plural. Thank you, Spliphstar, for making it a little harder to find. But, yes, it does rock.
It contains a cocaine reference, of course.
The song is Honky Tonk WomEn.... It's about multiple womEn...
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Keith and Mick wrote this song when they were in a ranch in Brazil surrounded by cowboys and all that kind of stuff. Keith said that they felt like if they were isolated in the middle of Arizona so they decided to write a country song (the first recording of this song was clearly country: no electric guitar in it, the country version is called Country Honk) but then the Rolling Stones played some sessions with Ry Cooder and Richards was "inspired" by one Cooder's riff and used it all along the song though the lyrics are basically the same with little changes.
This song was one of John Lennon's favorite songs from the rolling stones
@buterfly7 Not surprising, it just may be the best thing they ever did.
@buterfly7 Not surprising, it just may be the best thing they ever did.
i just cant seem to drink ya off my mind=best line in the song?
Bar Room Queen does not refer to a gay man in this song. smh.
There is an alternate version of the song with the lines, "Strollin' on the boulevards of Paris/Naked as the day I will die/The sailors, they're so charming down in Paris/But I just can't seem to sail you off my mind" in place of the second verse.