Probable line-up:

Drums: Curt Bisquera
Bass: John Pierce
Electric guitars: Jimmy Rip, Mick Jagger & Frank Simes
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Lynn Davis, Jean McClain & Jeff Pescetto
Organ: Billy Preston
Handclaps: Mick Jagger & Jimmy Rip
 

When all the twelve Apostles try to ring me on the phone
Take a message but I won't return their call
For I have no eyes to see Him and I thought I lost my way
And I know I've lost the keys to your door

Well

And I climbed the highest mountain and I looked down on the sea
And I saw a ship a-sail to the shore
I took a passage to the East and I journeyed to the West
I made love from Battambang to Baltimore

I said, Oh, am I running in a race?
I said, Oh, am I getting any place? (Take that smile right off your face)
I said, Oh, can I make it? (I can't make it)

I'm a wandering spirit, oh yes
Wandering spirit, yes
Yes I am a restless soul
Wandering spirit, there's no place that I can call my own

Oh yes

I was a glutton at the banquet and I spilt the finest wine
Trod the pyramids and ruins of Angkor
And I kissed the Mona Lisa and I breakfasted with kings
And I touched the nerves of nature in the raw

I'm a wandering spirit, oh yes
Wandering spirit, oh yeah
No escape and no parole
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Wandering spirit
There's no place that I can call my own

I'm a wandering spirit, oh yes
Wandering spirit
Looking for a place to go
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Wandering spirit
No escape and no parole
I'm a lost and lonely soul
 
 

TrackTalk

(I)t's a combination (of styles). It starts out like an old rockabilly thing and then goes into a gospel chorus, which makes it different, I guess.

(I Just Want to See His Face) is a bit similar to the Wandering Spirit tune. It's not so much tongue-in-cheek, but it's a little irreverent. It's not paint by numbers... It's good if it's both (sincere and tongue-in-cheek), because if it's all a parody the listener doesn't ever take it seriously, and that's not how it's intended.

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