Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Wayne Perkins
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Electric piano: Mick Jagger
Synthesizer: Nicky Hopkins
 

When I come home, baby, and I've been working all night long
I put my daughter on my knee
And she says "Daddy, what's wrong?"
She whispers in my ear so sweet

You know what she says? She says
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why

You know I've got a woman and she live in a poor part of town
And I go see her sometimes and we make love so fine
I put my head on her shoulder
And she say "Tell me all your troubles"

Oh I love you so much, baby
(...) want to sigh sometimes, yeah

Yeah, she say Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry

Even my friends say it to me sometimes
I make out like I don't understand them
You know what they say?
They say...

I'm a fool, baby, ah yeah
I'm a certified fool now, yeah
I want to tell you (...)
I'm a fool, baby, ah yeah
Certified fool for you, mama, yeah
Come on, yeah, I'm a fool
I'm a fool, yes
 
 

TrackTalk

It's surprising, isn't it? It's the family side. Well, it IS true, the Stones ARE getting on, and have done it with a lot of girls and what could be surprising if you've got children, eh? At the end! Keith's had SO many, I don't know... and other girls have claimed that they've got my baby and it's not true...

This dates from the period when I had a young child, my daughter Jade, around a lot, calling me daddy and all that. It's another of our heartmelting ballads, a bit long and waffly at the end maybe, but I like it.

I don't really think there is a single there. But a lot of people seem to like this, and everyone says it's the single... In Europe it's going to be a single, because they don't have FM radio like they do here, they don't play albums.

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