Some Girls Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Some girls give me money
Some girls buy me clothes
Some girls give me jewelry
That I never thought I'd own


[Verse 2]
Some girls give me diamonds
Some girls, heart attacks

Some girls I give all my bread to
I don't ever want it back


[Verse 3]
Some girls give me jewelry
Others buy me clothes
Some girls give me children
I never asked them for

[Chorus]
So give me all your money
Give me all your gold
I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach
And give you half of what I own


[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
Yeah
French girls they want Cartier
Italian girls want cars
American girls want everything in the world
You can possibly imagine


[Verse 6]
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


[Verse 7]
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


[Verse 8]
Chinese girls are so gentle
They're really such a tease
You never know quite what they're cooking
Inside those silky sleeves

[Chorus]
Give me all you money
Give me all your gold
I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach
And give you half of what I own
[Post-Chorus]
Yeah, baby, why don't you please come home?

[Verse 9]
Some girls they're so pure
Some girls so corrupt
Some girls give me children
I only made love to her once

[Verse 10]
Give me half your money
Give me half your car
Give me half of everything
I'll make you world's biggest star by half

[Chorus]
So give me all your money
Give me all your gold
Let's go back to Zuma beach
I'll give you half of everything I own

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Genius Annotation

“Some Girls” is the title track of English rock and roll band the Rolling Stone’s 1978 album Some Girls. The song is classic Mick Jagger, as he once again indulges in a settling of scores with women – and does not go in for half measures.

The release of the song and album outraged feminist and antiracist organizations. The civil rights activist Jesse Jackson judged “Some Girls” to be downright “obscene” and considered it an insult to black people. A number of African American radio stations made the decision to boycott the album.

Paul Nelson, then record reviews editor of Rolling Stone, writes:

This song may be a sexist and racist horror, but it’s also terrifically funny and strangely desperate in a manner that gets under your skin and makes you care

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What did The Rolling Stones say about "Some Girls"?
Genius Answer

Keith’s response to feminist and antiracism activists' reaction to the release of the album:

Well, we’ve been on the road with a lot of black chicks for many years, and there’s quite a few that do. It could have been yellow girls or white girls.

Credits
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Bass Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Harmonica
Synthesizer
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Recorded At
Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris
Release Date
June 9, 1978
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