Hindu Love Gods

Released: October 5, 1990

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Andrew Slater Niko Bolas

[Verse 1]
I was workin' part-time in a 5-and-dime
The boss was Mr. McGee
He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
'Cause I was a bit too leisurely
I always was busy doin' somethin' close to nothin'
But different than the day before
That's when I saw her, oh, I saw her
Walk in through the out door, out door

[Chorus]
She wore a raspberry beret
The kind you'd find in a second-hand store
Raspberry beret
When it was warm, she didn't wear much more
Raspberry beret, I think I love her, love

[Verse 2]
I'm built the way she was, she had the nerve to ask me
If I meant to do her any harm
So I put her on the back of my bike and
We went riding down by Old Man Johnson's farm
Now rainy days never turned me on
But something 'bout the way the clouds and her mixed
She wasn't too bright, but you know the way she kissed me
I knew she knew how to get her kicks, yeah

[Chorus]
She wore a raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second-hand store
Raspberry beret
And when it was warm, she didn't wear much more
Raspberry beret, I think I love her, yeah!

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second-hand store
Raspberry beret
And when it was warm, she didn't wear much more
Raspberry beret, I think I love her
A raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second-hand store
Raspberry beret
And when it was warm, she didn't wear much more
Raspberry beret, I think I love her
A raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second-hand store
Raspberry beret

Hindu Love Gods was an American rock band comprised of Warren Zevon and R.E.M. Bill Berry, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills. The band formed as a side project in 1984 as a reprise from their respective careers, where they performed some gigs together and recorded covers. The band’s initial lineup also included Bryan Cook on keyboards.

Berry, Buck, and Mills heavily contributed to Zevon’s August 1987 album Sentimental Hygiene, an album that was finished ahead of schedule. Putting the extra studio time to use, Hindu Love Gods recorded their eponymous album, comprised of covers, which was released in October 1990 and peaked at #168 on the Billboard 200 chart. Zevon revealed in an interview with Goldmine that the album was recorded in a single day in a “jam session” reportedly after some “heavy drinking.”

Speaking to The Los Angeles Times in November 1990, Zevon

From the albums

Hindu Love Gods (1990)
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (An Anthology) (1996)
Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon (2002)

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