Songwriter: Bruce Sudano Donna Summer Eddie Hokenson Joe Esposito

Producer: Donna Summer

Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Bad girls
Talking about the sad girls
Sad girls
Talking about bad girls, yeah
See them out on the street at night
(Walkin')
Picking up on all kinds of strangers
If the price is right you can score
If you're pocket's nice
But you want a good time
You ask yourself, who they are?
Like everybody else, they come from near and far
(Bad girls, yeah)
Bad girls
(Bad girls)
Talking about the sad girls, yeah
(Sad girls)
Sad girls
(Sad girls)
Talking about the bad girls, yeah
Friday night and the strip is hot
(Hot)
Sun's gone down and they're about to trot
(Out trot)
Spirit's high and they look hot
Do you wanna get down
Now don't you ask yourself, who they are?
Like everybody else, they wanna be a star, yeah , yeah
Sad girls, sad girls
You such a dirty bad girl
Beep-beep uh, uh
You bad girl, you sad girl
You such a dirty bad girl
Beep-beep uh, uh
Now you and me, we are both the same
(Both the same)
But you call yourself by different names
(Different names)
Now you mama won't like it when she finds out
(Finds out)
Her girl is out at night
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep
Hey mister, have you got a dime?
Mister, do you want to spend some time, oh yeah
I got what you want
You got what I need
I'll be your baby
Come and spend it on me
Hey mister
I'll spend some time with you
With you, you're fine, with you
Bad girls
They're just bad girls
Talkin' about sad girls
Sad girls
Hey, hey mister
Got a dime?

Donna Summer

As the unquestioned queen of disco, the one and only Donna Summer lit up the late 70s and 80s with flashy, exuberant vocals and automatic earworms. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on Dec. 31, 1948, Summer moved to Germany after being cast in a Munich production of Hair. There, she happened to meet Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the trio conglomerated to form a dynamic music team. With Moroder, Summer forged together her first album, The Hostage, which reached moderate success in Northern Europe. Summer’s big break, however, would come later with the release of 1975’s sexual “Love to Love You Baby”, which became one of disco’s first mainstream hits and reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.

1977 came around with the concept album I Remember Yesterday, which featured the Top 10 single “I Feel Love”. The next year, Summer hit the silver screen with the movie Thank God It’s Friday, whose soundtrack featured one of her own the iconic “Last Dance.” This would later become one of the disco legends' signature songs. “Dance” would take home an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe, and it jumped to a peak of #3 on the charts.

Yet Summer’s illustrious career was far from finished – Summer’s first live album Live and More featured the single “MacArthur Park”, a melting ballad that was a cover of the Jimmy Webb ballad of the same name. “Park” became Summer’s first – and perhaps most memorable – No. 1 hit, and cemented her status as a vocalist as well as a performer. With the track, she became the first female in modern rock history to hold the top spot in both the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. 1979, though, would really be the peak of her career.