Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: Ron Wood
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
 

And I love you, dirty fucker
Sister and brother
Moaning in the moonlight
Singing for your supper

Cause (But) (And) I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it with you (we're through)
And I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it with you (we're through)

And I love you with a passion
In and out of fashion
Always stuck behind you
Others tried to blind you

It is such a sad thing
To watch a love all dry
I've had it up to here, baby
I've got to say goodbye

Yeah, you love me in the lean years
Loved you in the fat ones
You're a mean mistreater
You're a dirty, dirty rat scum

I had it with you
 
 

TrackTalk

Had It with You was... just a couple of takes. I went in the control room and said, I'm not playing on this one, you lot get in there - the original band - and it was great. Mick did that live harp, and I just put a little sax in the background, like a rhythm sax.

Yeah, the basic track was cut with Charlie on drums, me on guitar and Mick on vocal and harp. We tried it with the full band and we realized we were just sounding like the Rolling Stones doing the Rolling Stones' favorite sort of Ye Olde Famous Rolling Stones Sound. But then, when we took the bass and the piano and the extra guitars off, it just sat right on the button. It came off sounding like a live radio broadcast that way. And at a slightly later date Ronnie and I did one overdub at the same time. But, I mean, there's nothing in the RULE BOOK that says you've GOT to have a bass on there. And then there's that middle breakdown part that almost trips over itself (laughs). Cutting a good blues track is not easy: it's all been done a million times, and to add something new to it is not so much a matter of THOUGHT as FEEL.

That thicker, overdriven (guitar) sound on Had It with You comes from changing the settings on the Fender Twin, that's all.

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