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, wear 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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