Line-up:

Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Joey Spampinato
Electric guitars: Keith Richards (incl. ending solo) & Mick Taylor (incl. middle solo)
Lead vocal: Keith Richards
Background vocals: Keith Richards & Steve Jordan
Piano: Johnnie Johnson
Organ: Chuck Leavell
Tenor saxophone: Bobby Keys
 

Well hung friend of mine
He's size 8, I'm size 9
Shucks my dear
I'm going to get a lick from you

One thing, one thing to
One thing to remember is that I

Could have
Yes (baby) I could have
Yes (Baby well) (But) I could have
I could have stood you up but I did, did, didn't, yeah, yeah

Short fuse, lights blew up
Power came back, hear them shout
Shucks my dear
Got to get a lick from you

My shoes walk down the street
Only trouble is they aren't on my feet
Well dig them kicks
They belong to me

Rip it up, rip it down
Change the shape of that whole damn town
Shucks my dear
Going to get a lick from you

One thing, one thing too, one thing to remember
That I could have, yes I could have, ooh
Yes I could have, I could have stood you up
But I did, did, didn't yeah yeah

I could have stood you up but I did, did, didn't, bop, bop
 
 
 

TrackTalk

To me that was a little stroll through the rock & roll alley. I actually started to cut these tracks a year ago, just about today, at about this TIME (laughs) - that's why I'M looking at my watch - up in Montreal. We got about seven tracks in ten days, so I felt already, This thing's going well, this band is cooking.

Obviously it does (have a Chuck Berry feel), since we got the man himself (Johnnie Johnson) on it. Then we decided to take it all the way with the '50s feel by doing the Jordanaires vocal bit.

(Mick Taylor) lived down the road from me, so we bumped into each other a few times. He heard I was doing a session with Johnnie Johnson, and he asked if he could come down and listen. I said, No, you can come down and play.

Mick's not changed. He never gives much away. I've always liked him a lot. He's very hard to get to know because he's a very introverted guy. But he's one of the consistently great guitar and slide guitar players around.

Mick plays the middle solo and I play the last one.

Joey Spampinato's on... electric bass. Joey's the only guy who can actually make a bass guitar sound and play like an upright. It's an old Danelectro and an Ampeg, and he's got the strangest fingering style, but it just pops!

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