ACDCrocker November 26th, 2005 09:56PM  
This song is about a prostitute Bon had fornicated with and she wasn't very pretty and she was fat. He tells of her sexual talents and how she turns him on.

CavGuy August 4th, 2006 08:39AM  
It's a song about an unattractive, fat chick bon liked knocking boots with. 42-39-56 are her measurements and she weighs 19 stone (266lbs or 121kg).

anonymous September 17th, 2006 01:33PM  
I heard angus caught his amp on fire playing this solo to whole lotta rosie it is there best solo ever.

anonymous November 14th, 2006 09:03PM  
I just need to clarify that rosie wasn't a prostitute. She was just very sexually active.
The story is that bon was walking down the street after a gig, and a woman pulled him into her house.. She ran off a [rather long] list of the names of people she previously had sex with (they happened to be mostly famous people or politicians.

anonymous January 26th, 2007 09:50PM  
if you get ahold of the cd volts, listen to all of ride on and at the end there was an interview with bon that says rosie was a huge girl that lived across the street from the hotel they stayed at. The song itself is about his intimate relationship with her, in the interview, he says he wished he hadent slept with her. The interview is about a minute past the end of ride on tehre are actualy several interview one of rosie and several about him puting out a new album with the band.

anonymous February 17th, 2009 11:53PM  
On a bbc recording Bon says the song is about a fat woman from Tasmania.