Factory girl

" Factory Girl " is the song of the Rolling Stones from their seventh studio album Beggars Banquet .

The song is very similar to the Appalachian folk melody, especially because of its minimal arrangement, Mick Jagger performs vocal parts on it, Keith Richards plays the acoustic guitar , Rocky Dijon plays the Kongs , Rick Grich from the Family group plays the violin, Nicky Hopkins on the mellotron , using the sound of the mandolin (as indicated in the notes to the bootleg) and Charlie Watts on the scoreboard .

During his 2003 performance, Charlie Watts said: “On the song 'Factory Girl' I did something that you should not do, I played sticks on the board instead of playing hands like Indian musicians do, however it’s a very complicated technique and painful if you don’t know how to do it. ” ^[one]

The song is composed of lyrics musing on the singer's relationship with a young woman, all while he is waiting for her to come out to meet him;

Waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair

Waiting for a girl, she has no money anywhere

We get buses everywhere, waiting for a factory girl

Richard talked about the song in 2003: “For me, the song 'Factory Girl' has become something like 'Molly Malone', an Irish jig; one of those ancient Celtic things that emerge from time to time, or an Appalachian song. In those days, I would just come and play something sitting in the room. And I would do it at the moment. I would just come up and play something, sitting around the room. I still do that today. If Mick gets interested I'll carry on working on it; if he is not interested, I will drop it, leave and say: “I will work on it and show it to you later.” ^[2]

Jagger countered, saying, “Country songs like 'Factory Girl' or 'Dear Doctor' from Beggars Banquet were real fakes. There's a sense of humor in country music anyway, a way of looking at life in a humorous kind of way - and I think we were just acknowledging that element of the music. The 'Country' songs we recorded later, such as “ Dead Flowers ” from Sticky Fingers or “ Far Away Eyes ” on Some Girls, were slightly different. The actual music is played completely straight, but it's me who's not going legit with the whole thing, because I think I'm a blues singer not a country singer. ” ^[2]

The song was performed live in 1990, 1997 and 2013. A live recording from the Steel Wheels / Urban Jungle Tour was featured on the 1991 live album Flashpoint . The song was also performed on the 1997 Bridges to Babylon Tour . She was played in Los Angeles on May 3, 2013, and after a version of the song with a different name and lyrics, “Glastonbury Girl” was performed at the Glastonbury Festival on June 29, 2013.