Something Happened to Me Yesterday

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: August & November-December 1966
Recording locations: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA; 
Olympic Studios & Pye Studios, London, England
Producer: Andrew Oldham      Engineers: Dave Hassinger & Glyn Johns
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Trombone: Brian Jones
Saxophone: Brian Jones
Clarinet: Brian Jones
Violin: unknown musician
 

Something happened to me yesterday
Something I can't speak of right away
Something happened to me
Something oh so goody

Something happened to me yesterday

He don't know if it's right or wrong
Maybe he should tell someone
He's not sure just what it was
Or if it's against the law

Something

Something very strange I hear you say
You're talking in a most peculiar way
But something really threw me
Something oh so goody

Something happened to me yesterday  (yesterday...)

He don't know just where it's gone
He don't really care at all
No one's sure just what it was
Or the meaning and/or cause

Something

What kind of joint is this?

Take your partners

He don't know if it's right or wrong
Maybe he should tell someone
He's not sure just what it was
Or if it's against the law

Something

Someone says there's something more to pay
For sins that you committed yesterday
It's really rather drippy
But something oh so trippy

Something happened to me yesterday

Right


He don't know just where it's gone
He don't really care at all
No one's sure just what it was
Or the meaning and/or cause

Something

Someone's singing loud across the bay
Sitting on a mat about to pray
Isn't half as loony
As something oh so goody

Something happened to me yesterday

He don't know if it's right or wrong
Maybe he should tell someone
He's not sure just what it was
Or if it's against the law

Something

Well thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go
So from all of us to all of you
Not forgetting the boys in the band
And our producer Reg Thorpe

We'd like to say God bless
So if you're out tonight, don't forget
If you're on your bike, w
ear white
Evening all
 
 

TrackTalk

I leave it to the individual imagination as to what happened. The ending is something I remember hearing on the BBC as the bombs dropped.

- Mick Jagger, 1967


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