Mona
(I Need You Baby)

Composer: Ellas McDaniel      Original performer: Bo Diddley (1958)
Recording date: January 1964          Recording location: Regent Sound Studios, London
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineer: Bill Farley
Performed onstage: 1963-64, 1981

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Brian Jones and Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Tambourine: Brian Jones (?)
Maracas: Mick Jagger
Handclaps: ---
 

I say Hey Mona
Oh Mona
I say Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, Mona
Oh Mona

I tell you, Mona, what I want to do
I'll build a house next door to you
Can I see you sometime?
We can go kissing through the blinds

Yeah come out, come out on the front

And listen to my heart go bumpety bump
Need you, baby, that's no lie
Without your love I'll surely die

I say Hey, hey Mona

Oh Mona
I say Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Mona
Oh Mona
 
I say Hey, hey Mona

Oh Mona
I say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, Mona
Oh Mona

I tell you, Mona, what I want to do

I'm going to build a house next door to you
Can I see you sometime?
We can go kissing through the blinds
 
Yeah come out, come out on the front

Listen to my heart go bumpety bump
Need you, baby, that's no lie
Without your love I'll surely die

I say Hey, hey, hey Mona

Oh Mona
I say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, Mona
Oh Mona


TrackTalk

I've never heard anybody, before or since, get that Bo Diddley thing down. Diddley himself was astounded, saying that Brian was the only cat he knew who'd worked out the secret of it.

- Keith Richards


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