I can remember laughing out loud when I heard these lyrics for the first time:

"I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, "You know you always have the
Lord by your side"
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor"

Many of the lyrics on Some Girls Deluxe are a hoot - my personal favourite is Keep Up Blues - but seeing them written down here makes you realise that they aren't THAT hilarious - until Mick sings them.

- and I forgot to mention Mother's Little Helper.

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To me Claudine is hands down the funniest song the Stones ever did.

According to Bill Wyman, Keith wrote Claudine. Words and all.
Bill isn't in the habit of crediting Keith unnecessarily, so I think we can take that as a fact.

And in Melody it sure is "looking for her high & low like mustard for a ham", which is just plain loveable :E

But it sounds so Jagger...so, do we give it to him, saying Keith was influenced by Mick, to come up with that?

Sort of like open G....anything Jagger writes Keith gets the credit for?

She grab a handful, oooh and it's painful - "Short And Curlies"

Oh no, he's going to cut off...
Oh no, don't saw off me leg
Don't saw off me arm
-Too Much Blood

both lyrics and the way Mick sings them are funny

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Oh no, he's going to cut off...
Oh no, don't saw off me leg
Don't saw off me arm
-Too Much Blood

both lyrics and the way Mick sings them are funny

Like any good joke, it's all about how it's delivered and I agree, MJ's a master.

The whole of Keep Up Blues lyrics is brilliant satire, but it's Mick's delivery that sends it over the top...

I've got a new suit, kind of Italian style
It's got a low-cut collar, kind of carved behind
Stitched in the waist and it's real tight in the butt - that's right
You better watch out, baby, see me strut my stuff
Yeah, come on
Yeah my shirt's made in England and my shoes in Rome
You know I'm coming, smell my cologne
You've got to keep up, baby, keep up with the times - yeah, you better
Well better watch out, you'll be left lagging far behind
Oh yeah
Keep up, baby, keep up
I've got a new apartment, the view's sublime
Sit on my sofa and let's pass some time
The roof is leaking, oh the rent is high - yes it is
I've got to keep up, baby, keep up with the times
Yeah, you've got to keep up now, keep up
Yeah
I, I've got a new actress, she ain't been in much
Except for filling a cocktail bar
But said she got a break, she got a starring part - in a movie
If I don't watch out, I'll be pushing a shopping cart - that'll be me
You've got to keep up, baby, keep up, baby
Keep up, baby, keep up with the times, yeah
That's right, keep up with the times
Well if you don't watch out, you'll be left lagging far behind
All right
What I said

[youtu.be]

CS Blues.
But Decca and Klein didnt see the joke.

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I defy anyone to come up with anything funnier than this:

"I saw the lights of Marfa, I guess it was a scenic route
When I had to change a tire, I’m glad I wore my western boots"

Everything from the track The Queen is Dead.

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head...

You forgot this one...

Brilliant lyrics! Everything about this song is ACE, especially the intro and the bassline.

Marr about the song:

"With 'Bigmouth Strikes Again', I was trying to write my 'Jumping Jack Flash.' I wanted something that was a rush all the way through, without a distinct middle eight as such. I thought the guitar breaks should be percussive, not too pretty or chordal -- I wanted a cheap, Les Paul sort of sound. The main riff is based on an Am shape, with a capo at the 4th fret. I buried this one little guitar part in just the right place, so it sounds like overtones of the main part, but it's really there. On the first of the two breaks, I'm playing slide through an AMS harmonizer, really high. For the second one, I used a Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty and a Rickenbacker together, playing a regular Em shape, but it's sampled and triggered off the snare drum roll. We credited the background vocals to 'Ann Coates,' but that's a joke -- it's the name of a place in Manchester. It's really Morrissey's voice, speeded up."



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She could be Rumanian
Could be Bubarian
Could be Albanian
Might be Hungarian
Could be Australian!
Could be the Alien
Send her to me

As Bill was also mentioned: Come Back Suzanne is very funny (and autobiographical).
Anyway, I'm glad to have a pot to piss in, too.
Had It With You has a nice story.
But the best of all is actually the J. Geils Band's Centerfold.

i need money so much , i need money so bad (summer romance )

"This will be the last time"

Some girls they're so pure
Some girls so corrupt
Some girls give me children
I only made love to her once!

Art imitating life.

The lyrics of the song "Some Girls", albeit politically uncorrect, are really funny

"The old maid is rouging up, applying final touches
touch she's already late for the dance,
I tell you tonight she's really gonna have a ball
She gonna really tie me up"

Perhaps unintentionally... "Little Indian girl, where's ... Your mama?

I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
That's not really true

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And the doctors says you'll be okay
And if you'd only stay away
From femme fatales and dirty bitches
And daylight drabs and night time witches
And working girls and blue stockings
And dance hall babes and body poppers
And waitresses with broken noses
Checkout girls striking poses
And politicians' garish wives
With alcoholic cnuts like knives

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Oh help me, please doctor, I'm damaged
There's a pain where there once was a heart
It's sleepin, it's a beatin'
Can't ya please tear it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar

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And I was so pleased to be informed of this
that I ran Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord

Hannah honey was a peachy kind of girl
Her eyes were hazel
And her nose were slightly curved
We spent a lonely night at the Memory Motel
It's on the ocean, I guess you know it well
It took a starry to steal my breath away
Down on the water front
Her hair all drenched in spray

Hannah baby was a honey of a girl
Her eyes were hazel
And her teeth were slightly curved
She took my guitar and she began to play
She sang a song to me
Stuck right in my brain

You're just a memory of a love
That used to be
You're just a memory of a love
That used to mean so much to me

She got a mind of her own
And she use it well
Well she's one of a kind
She's got a mind
She got a mind of her own
And she use it mighty fine

She drove a pick-up truck
Painted green and blue
The tires were wearing thin
She turned a mile or two
When I asked her where she headed for
"Back up to Boston I'm singing in a bar"
I got to fly today on down to Baton Rouge
My nerves are shot already
The road ain't all that smooth
Across in Texas is the rose of San Antone
I keep on a feeling that's gnawing in my bones

You're just a memory of a love
That used to mean so much to me
You're just a memory girl
You're just a sweet memory
And it used to mean so much to me
Sha la la la la

She got a mind of her own
And she use it well
Mighty fine, she's one of a kind

On the seventh day my eyes were all a glaze
We've been ten thousand miles
Been in fifteen states
Every woman seemed to fade out of my mind
I hit the bottle and hit the sack and cried
What's all this laughter on the 22nd floor
It's just some friends of mine
And they're busting down the door
Been a lonely night at the Memory Motel


It's Mick's delivery that always makes me laugh.



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ROCKMAN

Oh man, they butchered that Rockman...I believe they did manage to get one verse right though.

Stoned

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I always thought this was funny:

"You know people ask me: it is really true where you live
in Texas, it is really true what they do around there, people?
I say, 'yeah everytime I drive through the crossroads I get
scared there's a bloke running around with a f*cking chain
saw.'"

You know marrying money is a full time job
I don't need the aggravation
I'm a lazy slob
I hang fire, I hang fire

and

We've got nothing to eat
We got nowhere to work
Nothing to drink
We just lost our shirts
I'm on the dole
We ain't for hire
Say what the hell
Say what the hell, hang fire

whatsamattawichewboy!

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You know marrying money is a full time job
I don't need the aggravation
I'm a lazy slob
I hang fire, I hang fire

It's even funnier the way I've always misheard it:

You know my Aryan money is a full-time job
I don't need the aggravation
and my lady's a slob
Well hang fire....

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You know marrying money is a full time job
I don't need the aggravation
I'm a lazy slob
I hang fire, I hang fire

It's even funnier the way I've always misheard it:

You know my Aryan money is a full-time job
I don't need the aggravation
and my lady's a slob
Well hang fire....

That is a good misinterpretation!

PS, someone explain please what in god's name 'hang fire' is.

The beginning of faraway eyes is still the best for me

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The beginning of faraway eyes is still the best for me

That is good...you know I was wondering, what is the earliest song MJ added humour too?

Spider and the Fly maybe?