Lyrics to
Honky Tonk Women

This version of Honky Tonk Women was released by The Rolling Stones in 1970.

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(Well all right
Well all right
Well all right
Wooh
Well all right
Charlie’s good tonight, isn’t ‘e?)
I met a gin soaked barroom queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride (yeah)
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
Cause I just can’t seem to drink you off my mind (no)
It’s the Honky Tonk Women (yeah)
Give me, give me, give me the honky tonk blues
Strollin’ on the boulevards of Paris
As naked as the day that I will die
The sailors they’re so charming there in Paris
But they just don’t seem to sail you off my mind (yeah)
It’s the Honky Tonk women
Give me, give me, give me the honky tonk blues
(yeah)
It’s the Honky Tonk women, yeah
And give me, give me, give me the honky tonk blues (my my)
It’s the Honky Tonk women, yeah
And give me, give me, give me the honky tonk blues

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You can understand the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Honky Tonk Women" means the words set to the music of Honky Tonk Women, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Rolling Stones. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Honky Tonk Women and the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Rolling Stones who came here looking just for the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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