Indian
Girl
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: June 1979-January 1980 & April 1980
Recording locations: Pathé
Marconi Studios, Paris, France & Electric Lady Studios, New York City
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins Associate
producer & chief engineer:
Chris
Kimsey
Never performed onstage
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitars: Keith
Richards
Pedal steel guitar: Ron
Wood
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Keith Richards
Synthesizer: Bill Wyman
Horns: (unknown
musicians)
Marimbas: Jack Nitzsche or Ian
Stewart
Little Indian girl, where is your mama?
Little Indian girl, where is your papa?
He's fighting in the war in the streets of
Masaya
All the children were dead
Except for one girl who said
Please Mr. Gringo, please find my father
But I say:
Lesson number one
That I learned while I was
young:
Life just goes on and on, getting harder and
harder
Little Indian girls from Nueva Granada
Ma says there's no food, there's nothing left
in the larder
Last piece of meat was eaten by the soldiers
that raped her
Lesson number one
That you learn when you're
young:
Life just goes on and on, getting harder and
harder
Life just goes on and on, getting harder and
harder
Little Indian girls from Nueva Granada
Little Indian girls from Nueva Granada
Yes, I saw them today
It's a sight I would say
They're shooting down planes with their M-16s
and with laughter
Mr. Gringo, my father he ain't no Che Guevara
And he's fighting the war on the streets of
Masaya
Little Indian girl, where is your father?
Indian girl, where is your mama?
They're fighting for Mr. Castro in the streets
of Angola
La-la-la-da, la-la-la-da
TrackTalk
(No, the song is not about a "cause" I believe
in.) No, it's not like No Nukes in Central Park (laughs)... No.
It's just... a very general kind of... It makes a change from the other
songs which are mostly about trying to pick up girls. But I mean, you know,
it's like I think one... one song that isn't about trying to pick up girls
is (...) Even though I like to keep it as light-hearted as possible.
-
Mick Jagger, 1980
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