Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
First release: Jumpin'
Jack Flash single B-side, May 1968
Recording date: March-April
1968 Recording
location: Olympic Sound Studios, London
Producer: Jimmy
Miller Engineer:
Eddie
Kramer
Never performed onstage
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Fuzz bass: Keith
Richards
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Jimmy Miller
Trumpet and/or saxophone: Brian
Jones
Organ: Nicky
Hopkins
Mellotron: Brian
Jones
The wind blows rain into my face
The sun glows at the end of the highway
Child of the moon
Rub your rainy eyes
Oh child of the moon
Give me a wide awake, crescent shaped smile
She shivers, by the light she is hidden
She flickers like a lamp lady vision
The first car on the foggy road riding
The last star for my lady is pining
Oh child of the moon
Bid the sun arise
Oh child of the moon
Give me a misty day, pearly gray, silver,
silky, stained
Wide awake, crescent shaped smile
TrackTalk
Child of the Moon was one of the early open-tuning numbers on the electric guitars, because Street Fighting Man was all acoustic guitars.
Child of the Moon is probably the more
original of the two numbers we have cut for a single. It's a pretty song.
I think it will do well in America - it's more for the American market.
It has a country and western influence.