Got another one! 53rd and 3rd the Ramones
It’s about male hooking
Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side
Similarly, The Old Main Drag by the Pogues.
and Elton John’s “Sweet Painted Lady”
and Leonard Cohen’s “Sisters of Mercy”
and Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer”
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Probably not in the way you mean it, but:
The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
Cheap Trick - He’s A Whore
Marilyn Monroe was a hooker?
ETA: I see Rick had the same thought.
O.C. Smith’s The Son of Hickory Hollow’s Tramp
Cross-eyed Mary, Jethro Tull.
I was thinking more of Diana, but I recall now the song was written for Marilyn. Either way it was this or a Yoko joke.
(part of) “Wild Thing” (the Tone Loc song)
These songs are about begging?
Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher”.
Pixies-“Hey”
The Who: “Trick of the Light”*
Frank Zappa: “Teenage Prostitute”
Caravan: “Waterloo Lily”
Caravan: “Pros and Cons”
Caravan: “Give Me More” (what is it with these guys?)
Matching Mole: “Nan True’s Hole”
*And for a twist, one by the same songwriter about a lady who’s not a prostitute:
John Entwistle: “I Was Just Being Friendly”
A couple more classics:
“A Bird in a Gilded Cage” - “her beauty was sold for an old man’s gold”
and a gay version of it, “Palace of Stone” by the Five Red Caps - “I’m a poor little boy with an old moneybags / Silk on my back while my heart is in rags”
Kurt Weill - “Alabama Song”
“Maggie Lou’s Massage Parlor Blues” by Larry Gatlin
“Hands” by Ian Whitcomb
Jack Johnson - Taylor
Sweetest Girl - Wyclef Jean (“Pimpin’ got harder cause, hoes got smarter…”)
Well, since there’s “Bird in a Gilded Cage”, let’s add “She’s More To Be Pitied Than Censured” by William B. Gray.