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say you don't want no diamond ring

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  • And I'll be satisfied

    Tell me that you want the kind of things

    That money just can't buy....

    September 16, 2008

  • I don't care too much for money.

    September 16, 2008

  • Money can't buy me love.

    September 16, 2008

  • No?

    September 16, 2008

  • No no no. NO!

    September 16, 2008

  • Can't buy me love, no, no, no, no.

    Say you don't want no diamond ring,

    And I'll be satisfied,

    Can't Buy Me Love.

    September 17, 2008

  • Is it just happenchance or does this line display the writers' grasp of the female psyche? If intended, 'tis very clever use of the double negative.

    September 18, 2008

  • It depends on if you think you know what "the female psyche" is.

    September 18, 2008

  • And actually, I believe the original line was plural ("rings"), so maybe it doesn't mean what it seems to mean here.

    September 18, 2008

  • My lyric book has it singular, reesetee, though it does have the rhyming word as plural as your earlier comment - 'things'. I'll go and check the original sheet music.

    September 20, 2008

  • My sheet music has a singular ring to it. Interestingly, though, it does read 'say you don't need no diamond ring'.

    September 21, 2008

  • I'll check my recording.

    September 21, 2008

  • They do say the line more than once in the song, no? Maybe it's different each time?

    September 21, 2008

  • I'll check my lyric book, my music and my recording.

    September 21, 2008

  • My lyric book has the line 'say you don't want no diamond ring' twice.

    September 21, 2008

  • Weird. Now I have to listen to the original song again.

    September 21, 2008

  • My music book has the line 'say you don't need no diamond ring' twice.

    September 22, 2008

  • On the track on the 'A Hard Day's Night' album they sing 'say you don't need no diamond rings' twice.

    September 22, 2008

  • How many diamond rings does a girl need anyway? But of course, there's this timely argument:

    There may come a time

    When a lass needs a lawyer,

    But diamonds are a girl's best friend.

    There may come a time

    When a hard-boiled employer

    Thinks you're awful nice,

    But get that ice or else no dice.

    He's your guy

    When stocks are high,

    But beware when they start to descend.

    It's then that those louses

    Go back to their spouses.

    Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

    September 22, 2008

  • Say you don't need no girl's best friends . .

    September 23, 2008

  • Tell me that you want . . ?*

    * to rhyme with 'friends'.

    September 23, 2008