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| Mickjagger1963 |
Sweet Virgina is my mothers favorite Stones song....She was wondering what the lyrics mean? Do any of you know of any stories behind it? |
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| st0nesfan |
Speaking of Sweet Virginia, I remember reading a story that Jim Morrison met Keef and Mick during this time and was involved in some manner in this song. But I thought Jim Morrison was dead by this time. Also I read it on the alt.stones board so that means the story should be taken with a grain of salt to say the least. |
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| Chico |
This is my personal interpretation. I kinda thought it was Mick or Keith writing about some friend whos hooked on something and they're trying to persuade her to stop getting high(so it was probably jagger), cause the chorus goes,
"come on, come on down sweet virginia,
come on honey child, I beg you
come on come on down you got it in ya,
got to scrape that shit right off your shoes"
Just a thought.Even though it was about somebody getting high, its still kinda nice that whoever wrote it was trying to get them to stop.Mind you, Im quite sure mine and the jagger/richards mind works in very different ways.
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| jb |
I think it's about the fact that the southern states were(are) very prejudice...also anti republican themes which is common in many stones songs... |
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| sandrew |
Oh, please. It's clearly not about the state of Virginia or the South generally. |
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| 56DeSoto |
"wading through the waste stormy winter
and there's not a friend to help you through
trying to stop the waves behind your eyeballs
dropped your reds, dropped your greens and blues"
Drug references, anybody? Got all those pills listed on the last line of the verse.
"thank you for your wine california
thank you for your sweet and bitter fruit"
Okay, now we're onto CA. This isn't southern...possible Altamont reference: sweet and bitter fruit.
"yes I've got the desert in my toenails
and I hid the speed inside my shoe"
I think I read or heard that hiding drugs inside shoes was how Keith got some things through airports.
In his book "Classic Rock Albums: Exile on Main St" John Perry calls Sweet Virginia, "A successful amalgam of country, blues and gospel, it is quintessential Rolling Stones, in fact."
Great song! Fun to play, too.
Amanda
56DeSoto
www.edithgrove.com
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| sandrew |
Probably not about California, Virgina, or any state in the Union! I highly doubt he's talking about the state of California or anything that happened there - he's just thanking somebody for California wine, which by then was getting as good as Italian and French wine... |
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| mattb |
Those reds and greens and blues must have been California Hot Air Baloons. Virgina was a balloonist! Mick was in love in her and wanted her to come down. |
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