"Trashy Women" is a song written by Chris Wall and recorded by American

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singer

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in 1989 and later by the band

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. It reached number 63 on the US Country chart in 1989 for Walker, and was a number 10 country hit four years later from Confederate Railroad's

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debut album. According to legend, Walker was in the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in

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one evening and heard either Wall (who was also a bartender at the bar) or Kip Attaway performing the song. He then asked whichever it was to come to his hotel room later to teach him the song.

Content

The song's narrator describes that he "was raised in a sophisticated kind of style", but likes his women "just a tad on the trashy side," and shares various stories and explanations of why he does. One of these is a story about his parents being surprised at the fact that his prom date was a "cocktail waitress in a

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wig".

Music video

The music video was directed by Martin Kahan. It featured American country artists

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and

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Chart history

Jerry Jeff Walker

Confederate Railroad

References

{{Jeannie Seely 1989 singles 1993 singles Jerry Jeff Walker songs Confederate Railroad songs Atlantic Records singles Song recordings produced by Barry Beckett 1989 songs