Released: July 4, 1969
Songwriter: Keith Richards Mick Jagger
Producer: Jimmy Miller
[Verse 1]
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
Cause I just can't seem to drink it off my mind
[Chorus]
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
[Verse 2]
I laid a divorcee in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then she covered me with roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
[Chorus]
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
[Verse 3]
Strollin' on the boulevards of Paris
Naked as the day that I will die
The sailors, they're so charming there in Paris
But I just don't seem to sail you off my mind
[Chorus]
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
Cause I just can't seem to drink it off my mind
[Chorus]
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
[Verse 2]
I laid a divorcee in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then she covered me with roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
[Chorus]
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
[Verse 3]
Strollin' on the boulevards of Paris
Naked as the day that I will die
The sailors, they're so charming there in Paris
But I just don't seem to sail you off my mind
[Chorus]
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
The Very Best of The Rolling Stones 1964-1971
- Wild Horses
- Get Off of My Cloud
- Honky Tonk Women
- She’s a Rainbow
- Under My Thumb
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- Ruby Tuesday
- Brown Sugar
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Mother’s Little Helper
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Gimme Shelter
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Paint It, Black
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Time Is on My Side
- Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969)
- Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (1971)
- Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975)
- Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)
- Forty Licks (2002)
- Singles 1968-1971 (2005)
- Some Girls: Live in Texas ’78 (2011)
- GRRR! (2012)
- The Very Best of The Rolling Stones 1964-1971 (2013)
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Paint It, Black
- Gimme Shelter
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Wild Horses
- Brown Sugar
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Beast of Burden
- She’s a Rainbow
- Miss You
- Angie
- Honky Tonk Women
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- Start Me Up
- Under My Thumb
- Ruby Tuesday
- Dead Flowers
- Sweet Virginia
- Tumbling Dice
- Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
- Street Fighting Man
- Let It Bleed
- Bitch
- Mother’s Little Helper