I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest
In a big field of tall grass
I laid there in the sun and felt it caressing my face
As I fell asleep and dreamed
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
And that I was the star of the movie
This really blew my mind
The fact that me an overfed long haired leaping gnome
Should be the star of a Hollywood movie, hmmm
But there I was
I was taken to a place
The hall of the mountain kings
I stood high by the mountain tops
Naked to the world
In front of
Every kind of girl
There was long one's, tall ones, short ones, brown ones,
Black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones
Out of the middle, came a lady
She whispered in my ear
Something crazy
She said,

Spill the wine, take that pearl
Spill the wine, take that pearl
Spill the wine, take that pearl
Spill the wine, take that pearl

I thought to myself, what could that mean
Am I going crazy, or is this just a dream
Now wait a minute
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere
So it's all in my head
And then I heard her say one more time

Spill the wine dig that girl
Spill the wine dig that girl
Spill the wine dig that girl
Spill the wine dig that girl

I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine
In the other a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said

Take the wine dig that girl
Spill the wine, dig that girl
Spill the wine, dig that girl
Spill the wine, dig that girl
Take that girl, yeah!
It's on girl, all you gotta do is spill that wine
Spill that wine, let me feel, let me feel hot, yeah! yeah!
Spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine,
Spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine,
Dig that girl!



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Track duration: 04:51

"Spill the Wine" as written by Sylvester Allen, Harold Ray I. Brown, Morris Dewayne Dickerson, Le Roy L. Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott

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    General Comment:It's no secret what it means to "take a woman's pearl" and from that you can guess what it means to spill the wine. 60s London singers were always searching for the ultimate blues metaphor, having learned to play by covering double entendre classics like Little Red Rooster and King Bee. Looks like today people are a couple decades removed from those blues standards, judging by the confusion here. The meaning was obvious to the "hip listener" at the time.
    Flag FogButtonon April 20, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song is about oral sex.

    "It's on girl, all you gotta do is spill that wine
    spill that wine, let me feel, let me feel hot, yeah! yeah!"

    The pearl is the clitoris.
    Flag thejack2112on January 17, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:@marcuslk...way to put exactly what i wrote several months before you. Laser-like insight you have
    Flag PieShane001on September 27, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:Okay I'll make this easy for you .
    Spill the wine - simply means to pour and drink wine .
    Note: during a recording session the keyboard player came in drunk and spilled wine on the console . this is a fact . they moved to another studio . Eric was in another room playing around with HIS girlfriend that does the Spanish parts ( not Jimmy Hendrix's girl ) Obviously tripping on acid she was rambling off the lyrics while he was doing his thing with her .
    Take that girl , take that pearl means to eat the pussy

    From Harold Brown the drummer "We went back there and we put up a little tent, candlelight, and some wine back there. They were behind there, and Eric was doing things to her and making her talk."

    the song is about celebrating women and their beauty .
    Flagged marcuslkon May 08, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:you dopeheads need to stay off this website

    "oh yeah, this song is about drugs"

    no, it's about vaginas

    seriously, learn what slang is, nobody has ever called heroin "pearl," pearl here refers to vaginas, this song is about getting a woman drunk, and then having sex with her
    Flag TheFranzFerdinandon March 24, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:The chorus alternates between "DIG THAT GIRL" then "TAKE THAT PEARL". the song idea concept came from literally spilling the wine on the keyboard that they used in the studio. The girl speaking Spanish was Eric Burden's g/f at the time, they set up a TENT in the studio, and when she and Eric were doing their thing in it, they recorded what she said to lay over the studio track. "DIG" is a hippie euphamism for "like" ;the "PEARL" is of course a sexual reference to a womans anatomy. The rest (leaking gnomes, green grass) comes from lyrics that Eric was already working on when the song came together. The song in toto is a celebration of the beauty of all women.

    Source"Harold Brown" drummer for War in an interview
    Flag PieShane001on January 12, 2011   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:I think dmondoza hit the nail on the head, and the rest of you hit your thumb with the hammer! :) Spill the wine, to me, has always meant to take a risk. Take the pearl is to get the prize (the reward for taking a risk). He talks about women quite a bit. There seems to be several places, especially towards the end of the song that he says, take that girl, or dig that girl. I think he is talking about many men are shy and intimidated around attractive and charismatic women (pearls). He is saying take the risk (spill the wine - getting shot down) or you'll never get the pearl.
    Flag Lyrics2Deepon September 27, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:Okay i read a lot of comments and although they try to capture the meaning of " Spill that wine . Take that pearl " they are not right . close on some .
    He is taken to the hall of the mountain kings . He stands naked to the world in front of every kind of girl . ( this is the first clue to the real meaning )
    It means . " spill the wine " ( Drink the wine ) this is a term for drinking .
    " Take that pearl " ( suck the dick . swallow the cum . take that pearl necklace ) I am guessing you all know what a pearl necklace is .

    Mystery solved .
    Flag marcuslkon February 15, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:According to a very legitimate source of mine, Harold Brown, drummer of WAR, the misconstrued lyrics are "take that pearl". "Pearl" in essence meaning a woman's vagina or clitoris, or if she is a virgin, her virginity.

    Everybody interprets a song in their own way, according to their life experiences. For me, the song is exactly what it's saying. He was walking, needed to rest, fell asleep in a field, started dreaming about all kinds of women, a spanish speaking lady comes to him in his dream, offers him a good time with wine, and his choice of any "pearl" that's there and take it.

    Whether, he fell asleep because of smoking weed or other drugs is up to the individual listener's interpretation, but it doesn't say that in the song.

    Peace.
    Flag WARQUEENon February 04, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Spill the Wine, DIG that pearl: Cunnilingus. Red wine? white win? Who knows, who cares? It Pychosexual muffin lovin' trippin balls and worshippiing at the altar. Dig that pearl.
    Flag VAwhisperon November 06, 2009   Link

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