Blue Jean

Album

Tonight (David Bowie album)

Label

EMI America Records

Genre

Rock & Roll

Duration

10:00

Composer(s)

David Bowie

Entered Chart

Sep 15, 1984

Peak Date

Nov 3, 1984

Released

10 September 1984

Recorded

May 1984 Studio Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada

Catalog #

EMI America 8231

B-Side

Dancing With The Big Boys

Bowie described this Eddie Cochran-inspired single in a 1987 interview as "a piece of sexist rock 'n roll. [laughs] It's about picking up birds. It's not very cerebral, that piece." The bass guitarist miming in the video is Richard Fairbrass, who seven years later would find fame as a member of Right Said Fred ("I'm Too Sexy").

Blue Jean, I just met a girl named Blue Jean
Blue Jean, she got a camouflaged face and no money
Remember they always let you down when you need 'em
Oh, Blue Jean, is heaven any sweeter than Blue Jean?
She got a police bike, she got a turned up nose
Sometimes I feel like (oh, the whole human race)
Jazzin' for Blue Jean (oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue)
Blue Jean can send me (oh, somebody send me)
Somebody send me (oh, somebody send me)
One day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter
One day I'm gonna get that faculty together
Remember that everybody has to wait in line
For Blue Jean, look out world you know I've got mine
She got Latin roots, she got everything
Sometimes I feel like (oh, the whole human race)
Jazzin' for Blue Jean (oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue)
Blue Jean can send me (oh, somebody send me)
Somebody send me (oh, somebody send me)
Sometimes I feel like (oh, the whole human race)
Jazzin' for Blue Jean (oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue)
Blue Jean can send me (oh, somebody send me)
Somebody send me (oh, somebody send me)
Sometimes I feel like (oh, the whole human race)
Jazzin' for Blue Jean (oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue)
Blue Jean can send me (oh, somebody send me)
Somebody send me (oh, somebody send me)
Somebody, somebody (oh, somebody send me)
Somebody send me (oh, somebody send me)