Probable line-up:

Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Dulcimer: Brian Jones
Harpsichord: Jack Nitzsche
 

My sweet lady Jane, when I see you again
Your servant am I and will humbly remain
Just heed this plea, my love, on bended knees, my love
I pledge myself to lady Jane

My dear lady Anne, I've done what I can
I must take my leave for promised I am
This play is run, my love - your time has come, my love
I pledge my troth to lady Jane

Oh my sweet Marie, I wait at your eaves
The sands have run out for your lady and me
When luck is nigh, my love, her station's right, my love
Life is secure with lady Jane
 
 

TrackTalk

Things like Lady Jane were calculated before we even went into the studio.

Brian was getting into dulcimer then. Because he dug Richard Farina... We were also listening to a lot of Appalachian music then too. To me, Lady Jane is very Elizabethan. There are a few places in England where people still speak that way, Chaucer English.

Lady Jane is a complete sort of very weird song. I don't really know what that's all about myself. All the names are historical but it was really unconscious that they should fit together from the same period.

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