Fingerprint File

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: November 1973 & April-May 1974
Recording locations: Musicland Studios, Munich, West Germany; Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Mick Jagger's home, Newbury, England;
& Island Recording Studios, London, England
Producers: The Glimmer Twins        Chief engineers: Keith Harwood, Andy Johns & Glyn Johns 
      Mixer: Glyn Johns           Performed onstage: 1975

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Mick Taylor
Rhythm electric guitar: Mick Jagger
Lead electric guitar: Keith Richards
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Clavinet: Billy Preston
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Synthesizer: Bill Wyman
Tabla: Charlie Jolly Kunjappu
 

Mmm yeah, uh huh
Mmm mmm mmm

Fingerprint file, you get me down
You keep me running, know my way around
Yes you do, child

Fingerprint file, you get me down
Keep me running, you keep me on the ground

Know my moves way ahead of time
Listening to me on your satellite
Yeah

Feeling followed, feeling tagged
Crossing water, trying to wipe my tracks

And there's some little jerk in the FBI
Keeping papers on me 6 feet high
It gets me down
It gets me down
It gets me down

You better watch out on your telephone
Wrong number, they know you ain't home

And there's some little jerk in the FBI
Keeping papers on me 6 feet high
It gets me down
It gets me down
It gets me down

Who's the man on the corner, that corner over there?
I, I  don't know - well you better lay low

Watch out

Mmm mmm mmm mmm

Keep on the lookout, electric eye
Rats on the sell out - who's going to testify?

You know my habits way ahead of time
Listening to me on your satellite

And there's some little jerk in the FBI
Keeping papers on me 6 feet high
It gets me down
It gets me down
It gets me down
It gets me down

Hello, baby
Mm-mmm
Yeah, you know, we ain't, we ain't talking alone
Who's listening? I don't really know
But you better tell the SIS to keep out of sight
Cause I know they're taking pictures on the ultraviolet light

Uh huh, yes
Uh huh, yeah but these days it's all secrecy, no privacy
Shoot first, that's right
Yeah, you know...

Bye bye
Ooh!

Who's listening?
Right now somebody is listening to you
Keeping their eyes peeled on you

What a price, what a price to pay

Ow!
All right

Good night
Sleep tight
 

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