The Girls Want To Be With The Bad Boys

'The Girls Want To Be With The Bad Boys' was written by Larry Hill in 1990.

This version was recorded in 2025 by Big Richard, of the New York branch.

"Does she want the perfect man,
Oh, no, he's not the one.
Someone who can understand?
Oh, no, that's just a front.
No, never the man who loves her so,
Who'll always be her friend.
She'd much prefer some gigolo
Who could not give a damn!

'Cause, the girl wants to be with a bad boy,
You'd better believe it's true.
Yes, the girls want to be with the bad boys, baby,
They don't want to be with you!

Pity the knight in shining armour
Her sweet and tender brave.
He lost out to the easy charmer
Who sold her for a slave.
Oh, bright knight to save her soul
You'll scour King Minos' maze.
But, ooh, that bad man, hard and cold,
Is still the one she craves.

'Cause, the girl wants to be with a bad boy,
You'd better believe it's true.
Yes, the girls want to be with the bad boys, baby,
They don't want to be with you!

She calls you once, she calls you twice,
She can depend on you,
For a helping hand and good advice
When she doesn't know what to do.
She's had it with glamour, glitter, glow,
She's all done with these.
A steady, strong and honest Joe is
What she really needs, but...

Breathless, dizzy, busy right now,
You have to call back later.
She's all tied up, behind the door,
Why does she always ditch you for
A smooth operator?

Well, the girl wants to be with the bad guys,
You'd better believe it's true.
Yes, the girls want to be with the bad boys, baby,
They don't want to be with you!

So you're the man she says she'll marry,
Could not want for more.
She'll say goodbye to Tom and Harry, and
Show those Dicks the door!
But safe and warm and, oh-so-bored,
She's itching for a fix,
Down some alley with Tom and Harry
Or one of those dirty Dicks.

'Cause the girl wants to be with a bad boy,
You better believe it's true,
The girls want to be with the bad boys, baby,
They don't want to be with you!

Yes, the girls want to be with the bad boys,
Simple as A. B. C.
The girls want to be with the bad boys, baby,
That's why your girl,
Why your girl,
Why your girl's with me.

That's why your girl,
Why your girl,
Why your girl's with me."

The original 1990 version of 'The Girls Want To Be With The Bad Boys' (recorded in 2014) can be heard here.