Poison
Ivy
(version 2)
Composers: Jerry
Leiber & Mike Stoller Original
performers: The
Coasters (1959)
First release: UK
EP, January 1964 First
US release: More Hot Rocks expanded reissue, 2002
Recording date: November
1963 Recording
location: De Lane Lea Studios, Holborn (London), England
Producer: Andrew
Oldham
Performed
onstage: 1963
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Brian Jones
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Brian
Jones & Bill Wyman
She comes on like a rose
And everybody knows
She'll get you in dutch
You can look but you better not touch
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Well late at night when you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes creeping all around
She's pretty as a daisy
But look out man she's crazy
She'll really do you in
If you let her get under your skin
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night when you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes creeping all around
Measles make you bumpy and mumps will make
you lumpy
And chicken pox will make you jump and twitch
A common cold will cool you but whooping cough
will fool you
But poison ivy's going to make you itch
You're going to need an ocean
Of calamine lotion
You'll be scratching like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night when you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes creeping all around
La, la, la-da, la, la, la-da
La, la, la-da
TrackTalk
Poison Ivy, did we ever record that? Oh
yeah. We did two versions of that... (We chose that material because) we
were kids, you know, just kids. We did everything and that was a groove.
You see Poison Ivy was unknown in (England). It wasn't a hit here
by the Coasters...
-
Mick Jagger, 1968
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