Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood (incl. solo)
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
 

Neighbors, neighbors, neighbors

Neighbors, have I got neighbors
Have I got neighbors all day and all night
Neighbors, have I got neighbors
Ringing my doorbells all day and all night

Ladies, have I got crazies
Screaming young babies, no piece and no quiet
I got TV's, saxophone playing
Groaning and straining with the trouble and strife

Is it any wonder
That we fuss and fight?

Neighbors, do unto strangers
Do unto neighbors what you do to yourself

Neighbors, do yourself a favor
Don't you mess with my baby when I'm working all night
You know that neighbors steal off of my table
Steal off of my table, ain't doing all right

All right
 
 

TrackTalk

(There's no slide on Neighbors), but it sounds like it. Ron plays that solo, and a lot of his things on regular guitar sound like they're slide. He's wangled a way of playing it without them, because he keeps losing them (laughs). At the start of that solo he's bending about four strings. Sounds like slide.

Yeah, Patti and I (have been evicted from apartments in New York). Mick wrote the lyrics to that - and he NEVER has trouble with neighbors... I have a knack of finding a whole building of very cool people, you know, but there'll be one uncool couple... Neighbors is the first song I think Mick's every really written for me. It's one I wish I'd written, that.

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