Where the Boys Go

Composers:Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: August-September 1978 & June-October 1979
Recording locations: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA & Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris, France
Producers: The Glimmer Twins        Associate producer & chief engineer: Chris Kimsey
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (incl. solo) & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood (& unknown female
    singers)
Piano: Ian Stewart
 

Hey girls, you better listen to me
I'm getting starved with your company
All day Monday and all day Tuesday
I played football, there's nothing on the telly

Ever since I was just 13 years old
And I always felt shy but I acted so bold
I never had the money and I never had the class
But I always seemed to get myself a Saturday night piece of ass

Where the boys go on a Saturday night
Where the boys all go to hold you tight
Where the boys go Saturday night
Where the boys all go

Saturday morning and you see me down the pub
And I'm pissing away me money and I can't stand up
Cab fare, pop? You're silly in the road
Get in everybody, where the boys all go

Hey, never keep a secret from me
Never keep a secret from you

Where the boys go on Saturday night
Where the boys all go to hold you tight
Where the boys go to stand around and pose
Where the boys all go, showing off their clothes
Where the boys go, down the disco
Where the boys all go

Hey girls, what are you doing tonight?
Now do you want to dance or do you want to fight?
Look here, darling, I know the score
Paint your face, dye your hair, I'll see you round the back

Everybody knows...

Where the boys go on a Saturday night
Where the boys go to hold you tight
Where the boys go for a giggle and a laugh
Where the boys go, and a little bit of ass
Where the boys all go for a little piece of this
Where the boys all go, and a little bit of that
Where the boys all go for a little piece of stick
Where the boys all go, and a little piece of that

And the girls all know
Where the boys all go

And the boys all know
Where the girls all go
 
 

TrackTalk
 

Ron: That will be very popular in England and here, I suppose. But on a Saturday night the boys all  go somewhere and it's usually down to where they can go out of their brains... drinking.
Mick:  And the pub.

- Ron Wood & Mick Jagger, 1980


(The backup vocalists) were just little girls who live up the road. In New York... Central Park West... (T)hey had all the attitudes off, it was the notes they couldn't get. (Laughs)

- Mick Jagger, 1980

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