However the above lyric suggests English "Pearly Queens" who cover their costumes with pearl buttons, it seems to me British PQ's would be of little interest to an American negro singer so I always thought the Stones themselves put the lyrics together.
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Mary Mack, dressed in black
Silver buttons all down her back,
Hi ho gypsie toe
She broke her needle now she can't sew..
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However the above lyric suggests English "Pearly Queens" who cover their costumes with pearl buttons, it seems to me British PQ's would be of little interest to an American negro singer so I always thought the Stones themselves put the lyrics together.