Some Girls

Album: Some Girls (1978)
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  • Some girls give me money
    Some girls buy me clothes
    Some girls give me jewelry
    That I never thought I'd own

    Some girls give me diamonds
    Some girls, heart attacks
    Some girls I give all my bread to
    I don't ever want it back

    Some girls give me jewelry
    Others buy me clothes
    Some girls give me children
    I never asked them for

    So give me all your money
    Give me all your gold
    I'll buy you a house at Zuma beach
    I'll give you half of what I own

    Some girls take my money
    Some girls take my clothes
    Some girls get the shirt off my back
    And leave me with a lethal dose

    Yeah French girls they want Cartier
    Italian girls want cars
    American girls want everything in the world
    You can possibly imagine

    English girls they're so prissy
    I can't stand them on the telephone
    Sometimes I take the receiver off the hook
    I don't want them to ever call at all

    White girls they're pretty funny
    Sometimes they drive me mad
    Black girls just wanna get fucked all night
    I just don't have that much jam

    Chinese girls are so gentle
    They're really such a tease
    You never know quite what they're cookin'
    Inside those silky sleeves

    Give me all your money
    Give me all your gold
    I'll buy you a house at Zuma beach
    I'll give you half of what I own
    Yeah baby why don't you please come home

    Some girls they're so pure
    Some girls so corrupt
    Some girls give me children
    I only made love to her once

    Give me half your money
    Give me half your car
    Give me half of everything
    I'll make you world's biggest star

    So gimme all your money
    Give me all your gold
    Let's go back to Zuma beach
    I'll give you half of everything I own Writer/s: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 15

  • Thedmo from Tustin, CaGreat song, great album.

    To Keith from Front Royal, VA:
    1. The song wasn't banned across the US, but a lot of stations wouldn't play it (there were plenty of other his to play), or if they played it, they censored it.
    2. All copies of the album with the faces of litigious persons WERE pulled, replaced with the generic ad copy version. However, the album remained on sale. Other instances of albums being pulled to replace album art abound, most notably perhaps being the Beatles' Butcher cover of Yesterday & Today.
    3. & 4. Okay.
    5. On what do you base your "contrary to popular opinion" opinion? Did it come to you in a dream? It's racist, ridiculous and absurd. Having worked for Jesse Jackson (at least you spelled it right) for years in the 80s, I can speak from personal knowledge of his self-sacrifice. It was tremendous, and most will never know the extent of it until he leaves us. What an ignorant and racist comment. It'll no doubt shock you to learn that Rev J also actually cares about white people, too. Don't hurt yourself reeling in disbelief.
    6. Okay.
  • Deethewriter from Saint Petersburg, Russia FederationIn a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone magazine following the original release of 'Some Girls', Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said, "I really like girls an awful lot. And I don't think I'd say anything really nasty about any of them." Ironically, Jagger said more than his exceedingly large mouthful of nasty things to and about girls in the album's title track; enough to piss off legions of nascent so-called women's libbers. Yet despite the seemingly sexist remarks, 'Some Girls' went on to sell over 6 million copies and remains the group's biggest-selling record.
    Upon its initial release in 1978, some of the lyrics to the title track of 'Some Girls' proved controversial, with charges of sexism being hurled at the band.
  • David from Woburn, MaOh, how I would have loved to hear the 24 minute version of this song. It would have been so hilarious. Sexist and wrong if you believe it, but when you realize who it is singing, I'm sure there would have been some great stories in there.
  • James from Greensburg, PaHey mick.... I was the one coming down the fire escape...Janurary 7th 1977... On 54th and 6th. That summer came...Shattered..."people dressed in plastic bags,directing traffic"... Was that about when you saws coming down the fire escape with a shower curtain on us ? Cause, there was no other reason in my life that id see why you wrote that . ? Im playing @ southside grill>greensburg,pa. Friday night...August 1st. I'll save you and keith a mike or 2 and front row seats. Im a just man and this would be goood for the soul. Just another fool,you probably would think if this would ever even come close for you to read. Peace man.
  • Jean from Wichita, KsJade, get your facts straight! The line about children may well have referred to his daughter Karis with Marsha Hunt, however Luciana Giminez gave birth to Lucas in 1999...over 20 years AFTER this song was written!
  • Chet from New York, Ny"This was the second Stones song that was also the album title. "Let It Bleed" was first."

    Oh yeah? What about "It's Only Rock N' Roll"?

    Be careful...there's alot of wrong "facts" around here!
  • Susan from Toronto, CanadaThe "Zuma Beach" line refers to Bob Dylan having to give his wife their Zuma Beach house in their divorce.
  • Donna from College Station, Txthe album Some Girls was No 5 Oct 1978, source Billboard 10 years ago list Oct 8, 1988
  • Kayla from Bloomington, InI just don't know why some people get so upset over things like this. I'm a woman and proud to be one, but this song does not offend me at all. I absolutely love the Stones and this is a great song.
  • Andrew from New York, United StatesHmm. Chrissy Shrimpton, sister of model Jean Shrimpton, is as English as Mick. So how is a line referring to "American Girls" about her? I always thought that line was about Mick's Texan wife (smirk smirk). And the actual quote from Keith when asked why they called the album "Some Girls" was "Because we can't remember their f**king names!"
    While this LP was not banned, the Stones were forced to change the cover after several of the famous people on the cover - or their estates - threatened lawsuits...
    I love playing this song on guitar- get an MXR Phase Shifter, tune to Open-G and capo on the second fret, and have a blast...
  • Keith from Front Royal, Va1.This song was not banned.
    2.This album was not pulled off the market.
    3.The Zuma Beach lines refer to Bianca Jagger whom Mick was about to divorce, not Mary Badham. ("Let's go back to Zuma Beach. I'll give you half of everything I own."--as in divorce).
    4.Chrissie Shrimpton (not Skrimpton) was not American so it makes no sense to say that line refers to her.
    5.Contrary to popular belief, Jesse Jackson (who wanted the song banned) does not care about black people or women. Jesse Jackson uses black people as a means of getting himself more publicity.
    6.Mick Jagger did not apologize for the line about black girls. Quite the contrary...."If you can't take a joke, that's too f'n bad!" Earl McGrath, president of Rolling Stones records is the one who apologized. Keith Richards commented.."over the last 15 years Mick and I have met some extra-horny black chicks."
  • Stefanie Magura from Rock Hill, Scactually prretty racey is an understatement!!! They were very racey to say the least!!!
  • Stefanie Magura from Rock Hill, ScI just read the lyrics, and some of them were pretty racey. I know why the song was banned. Wasn't the album 'Some girls" taken off the market, too?
  • Jade from Chippewa Falls, Wi I know what the girls that they were talking about:
    Line: 'I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach'was about Mick Jagger and his love affair with eighteen year old Mary Badham in 1970. She refused the house offer.
    Line: 'Some girls give me there children I never asked for' Mick Jagger is referring to Marsha Hunt, who gave birth to Karis and Luciana Gimenez who gave birth to Lucas in 1969.
    Line: 'American girls want every thing'. This saying was about Chrissie Skimpton who was a prissy bitch who did want everything.

    Anyway, I hated this song but the lyrics about the girls are interesting. No wonder it was banned.
  • Pete from Nowra, Australia the English band Racey also did a song called some girls ,,actually the lead singer of Racey and Mick Jagger look very much alike....i wonder...mind you i've never seen them photographed together....could it be ????
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