Crazy
Mama
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
March, October & December 1975
Recording locations: Musicland
Studios, Munich, West Germany
&
Mountain Recording Studios,
Montreux, Switzerland
Producers: The
Glimmer
Twins Chief
engineer:
Keith
Harwood
Performed onstage:1977,
1997-98, 2015
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Rhythm electric guitars: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Lead electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Keith
Richards, Ron Wood & Billy
Preston
Pianos: Keith
Richards, Ron Wood & Billy Preston
Cowbell: Ollie
Brown
Percussion: Ollie
Brown
Well
you're crazy, mama, with your ball and
chain
And
your sawn off shotgun, your blown out
brains, yeah
You can scandalize me, scorn my name
You
can steal my money and that don't mean
a doggone thing
Cause if you really think you can push it
I'm
going to bust your knees with a bullet
Ooh, you're crazy, mama - ah yeah
Well
your old time religion is just superstition
You're
going to pay high prices for your sacrifices - ah yeah
All your blood and thunder sure can't faze
me none
If
you're going to keep on coming, I'm going
to take it all head on
And if you don't believe I'm going to do it
Yeah,
just wait till you all get hit by that bullet
Ooh, you're crazy, mother - ah yeah
I'm
coming out to get you, boy - ooh!
Ah, don't think I ain't thought about it, it
sure
make my shackles rise
Cold
bloody murder make me want to draw the
line, yeah - ooh yeah
Well you're crazy, mother, with your ball and
chain
You're
plain psychotic, ooh!, plain insane, yes
And if
you don't believe I'm going to do it
Yeah,
just wait for the
thud of the bullet, ooh!
You're crazy, mother - yeah
You're crazy, mother - yeah
You're crazy, mother - yeah
Crazy... yeah
TrackTalk
That's a Rolling Stones track,
right? Yeah,
it's gonna be quite good onstage. We wrote that in the studio, too. All
of it, my words and everything. It just came to me.
-
Mick Jagger, 1976
No girls on the record. Do you know,
girls always say to me, Don't
use girls on the record; we really don't like it.
I think that's Billy singing high up there. He's the stand-in girl
there. Keith, Billy and Ron. Yeah, at the end, it does sound like girls.
-
Mick Jagger, 1976
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