I always liked women in tight red dresses. Here was my band. And I wanted to do a non-electric, acoustic guitar song. I picked up the metal string guitar someone had brought...and began singing about the images in my head. I wanted a contrast to the more rock-like songs we had just completed. I wanted something is a folk vein. I wanted sex, and comedy and beauty.
lyrics
I've been to Africa
I've been to old Spain
Been to many ports-o-call
But all of them have brought me pain..a lot of pain
I've known girls wearing red
I've know them all in my bed
I've seen their painted faces all around me
In this Land of Prostitutes
This Land of Prostitutes
This land of painted ladies
I picked one up in old Hong Kong
Took her to my room...it didn't take very long
I pulled down her dress...I made quite a mess
oh...she told me she was a prostitute
Told me she did it for work and she didn't give a hoot
About the way morals went today
I knew a girl in Africa
The biggest lips in Africa
That girl was known for giving pleasure to men
From foreign lands
But she was pretty with her clothes all pulled down
Those girls in Africa they don't take too long
If you are a traveling boy
And you look in every port for a little girl toy
Then take these words to your heart tonight:
Find a girl who wears a pearl in her tight navel
It is the greatest love
The greatest love that you can find.
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