Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: November-December
1972 & May-June 1973
Recording locations: Dynamic
Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica & Island Recording Studios, London
Producer:Jimmy
Miller
Chief engineer:
Andy
Johns
Performed onstage: 1973
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick
Taylor
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Clavinet: Billy
Preston
Percussion (incl. tambourine): Jimmy
Miller
Went out walking through the wood the other
day
And the world was a carpet laid before me
The buds were bursting and the air smelled
sweet and strange
It seemed about a hundred years ago
Mary and I, we would sit upon a gate
Just gazing at some dragon in the sky
What tender days, we had no secrets hid away
Well it seemed about a hundred years ago
Now all my friends is wearing worried smiles
Living out a dream of what they was
Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to
grow up?
Went out walking through the wood the other
day
Can't you see the furrows in my forehead?
What tender days, we had no secrets hid away
Now it seemed about a hundred years ago
Now if you see me drinking bad red wine
Don't worry about this man that you love
Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to
grow up?
You're going kiss those days goodbye
Yeah, (Lord) I warn you
Please excuse me while I hide away
Call me lazy bones
Ain't got no time to waste away
Lazy bones, ain't got no time to waste away
Don't you think it's just about time to hide
away?
Yeah, yeah
Come on...
Kiss me
Come on and kiss...
Kiss me, baby
Goodbye yeah...
Come on... come on baby...
Kiss me... yeah, you're going to kiss those
days goodbye
I warn you...
TrackTalk
Some of the songs we used (for the album) were pretty old. 100 Years Ago was one that Mick (Jagger) had written 2 years ago and which we hadn't really got around to using before.