Down
Home Girl
Composers: Jerry
Leiber & Jerry Butler
Original performer: Alvin Robinson (1964)
Recording date: November
1964
Recording location: RCA Studios, Los Angeles,
USA
Producer: Andrew
Oldham
Engineer:
Dave
Hassinger
Performed onstage: 1969
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Six-string bass: Bill
Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Brian Jones
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Piano: Jack
Nitzsche
Harmonica: Mick
Jagger
Lord I swear the perfume you wear was made
out of turnip greens
And every time I kiss you, girl, it tastes
like pork and beans
Even though you're wearing them citified high
heels
I can tell by your giant step, you've been
walking through the cotton fields
Oh you're so down home, girl
Every time you monkey, child, you take my breath
away
And every time you move like that I've got
to get down and pray
Don't you know that dress of yours was made
out of fiberglass?
And every time you move like that I've got
to go to Sunday mass
Oh you're so down home, girl
Oh you're so down home, girl
I'm going to take you to the muddy river and
push you in
Just to watch the water roll on down your
velvet skin
I'm going to take you back to New Orleans,
down in Dixieland
I'm going to watch you do the second line
with a umbrella in your hand
Oh you're so down home, girl
I'm with you, baby
You're so down home
Ooh! yeah, too much
Out of sight
You're so down home, girl
TrackTalk
One thing that's quite interesting is that I play
six string bass on Down Home Girl and Pain In My Heart. It
gives a fantastic treble effect.
-
Bill Wyman, 1965
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