All You Pretty Girls

"All You Pretty Girls" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1984 album The Big Express.

It peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart, and its music video cost £33,000 to make.

The choir sounds were a Mellotron sample played out of a speaker inside a fire bucket.

The song's chorus, listing the types of women waiting, is deliberately performed in the style of a sea shanty, which turns into a hornpipe-styled coda utilising a complex harmonic counterpoint of non-lexical vocables which also suggest a nautical work song.

The song was accompanied by a video which depicted the band in period costume as singers in a traditional music hall or theatrical production, dressed as sailors.