Composers: Jimmy
Cliff Original
performer: Jimmy Cliff (1972)
First release: B-side
of Run Rudolph Run single, December 1978
Recording date: August-September
1978 Recording
location: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Keith
Richards Engineer:
Michael
Carnavale
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards
Vocals: Keith
Richards
Piano: Ron Wood
Between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry
(And) (Well) Sure as the sun will shine
I'm going to get my share now of what's mine
Oh (And) the harder they come
The harder they fall
One and all
What I say now, really
Well officers are trying to keep me down
Trying to drive me underground
And they think that they have got the battle
won
Forgive them, Lord, they know not what they've
done
Beat off on me...
And I keep on fighting for the things I want
And I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living like a puppet or a slave