Take It Easy Baby, Make It Last All Night
On my mp3 player, nicely settled back to back, I listen to men sing about the wonders that are American women. This got me to thinking, where are the songs about British women, huh? Are we not inspiring men to write songs about us? Are we not interesting enough, pretty enough, cool enough? Or have I just missed them?
The songs in question are Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, American Girl, and Counting Crows, American Girls. There’s also American Woman, which springs to mind, either by Lenny Kravitz or…someone else, depending on your preference (or age). And California Girls. A bit of a Google search shows there are lots more that are similar. For us, you can find some that have obscure references to London, but none spring immediately to mind when I try to think of them, there’s no rousing chorus hiding anywhere in my brain.
Adam Duritz’s American Girls are all weather and noise. Tom Petty’s were raised on promises. What would British Girls be? Would they make reference to our lack of sunlight, our pasty legs, and if written by an American they’d mention our bad teeth I’d bet, (which, sidebar, can’t we get over this now? We have dentists!) or possibly make mention of Cockney rhyming slang. Oh! They could talk about our love of tea! And biscuits. And…er…hmm, even I’m having trouble thinking of something worthwhile about us to stick in a rocking song, so maybe it’s no wonder there haven’t been any.
All of Clapton’s love songs (Wonderful Tonight, Thorn Tree in the Garden, Layla) were about British women!
I could open my iTunes and have a scout through my library if you need more examples? 
Ah, thank you. I was thinking more about ones with it in the title, although whether there will ever be a song that can somehow make ‘British Girl’ or ‘London Lass’ sound good is another story. I think maybe America just fits better? But it’s nice to know that people are actually writing songs about us. And Wonderful Tonight and Layla are excellent songs.