The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women Lyrics

The Rolling Stones Lyrics

"Honky Tonk Women"

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
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

I laid a divorcee in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then she covered me in roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind

It's the honky tonk women
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

It's the honky tonk women
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
It's the honky tonk women
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

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Thanks to Ed Hanson, H G Linden for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Keith Richards, Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger introduced this as "a song for all the whores in the audience" sometimes during the live shows.

This song was based on Hank Williams' "Honky Tonk Blues", but The Rolling Stones recorded it as a rock song for a single release. The country version, called "Country Honk", was released a few months later on their "Let It Bleed" album.

According to Keith Richard, this song was born in Brazil, at a ranch in Mato Grasso, where he, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg spent some time. He said, "Mick and I were sitting on the porch of this ranch house and I started to play, basically fooling around with an old Hank Williams idea. 'Cause we really thought we were like real cowboys. Honky tonk women."

The cowbell sound at the beginning of the song was played by producer Jimmy Miller who set the tempo by hitting the two small cowbells fixed on a prong.

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