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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
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INFO

written by: Deborah Harry

 

FEATURED ON

The Thin Line/Out In The Streets/Puerto Rico/Platinum Blonde
[7" demo] (1975)

The Platinum Collection [best of] (1994)


REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

PUERTO RICO

You say you wanna take me down to Puerto Rico, crowded Puerto Rico, humid Puerto Rico

You say you wanna take me up to the mountains, the boring mountains

You say you wanna take out to Las Vegas, viva, viva Las Vegas

I heard it
I did it
I got the bill
I lived it
I paid it
Paying still

Compliments and promises can't fool me twice
Spreading lies like that around isn't very nice
You say I'm so fascinating like no one else you know
No one else, you know?
Your wife should know
You say you wanna put me on some TV show
The Johnny Carson show
Come on, let's go

You say you wanna buy me leather coats and cars
Make me a star
Take a trip to Mars

I did it
I got it
I got the jewel
I made it
I paid it

And I'm no fool

Compliments and promises can't fool me twice
You're such a low-life schemer

Beat it creep, dematerialize
Beat it creep, dematerialize

COMMENTS

quoted from the book 'Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde - A Portrait By Cathay Che' - 1999

"There's another song I wrote called 'Puerto Rico' around the same time, it's really sick and very camp. I like that one."

quoted from the 'Platinum Collection' booklet - 1994

Clem Burke: Here's another song. I don't know why we didn't use it. No one ever went back to these demos and said "Hey, here's a great song to do." As a matter of fact, the demos are all great, in general. All of it was so much against the grain at the time. It was hard to think we would get signed at the time.

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