Soul Survivor
(alternate take)

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: July & October-November 1971 & Fall 2009
Recording locations: Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Keith Richards' home, Villefranche-sur-mer, France; others (NY & L.A.)
Producer: Jimmy Miller      Chief engineers: Glyn Johns, Andy Johns, Joe Zagarino & Krish Sharma 
Mixer: Bob Clearmountain             Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Rhythm electric guitars: Keith Richards
Slide electric guitar: Mick Taylor
Vocal: Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
Trumpet: Jim Price
Tambourine: Jimmy Miller
 

Hey hey hey, I just drown
By the time my feet' s on the ground

I just can't stand up
No but this loving cup
I just run around
Live it up do or die

Yeah I may be a fool
Oh you had my tool
Oh you know that I do, because...

I just can't go by
In my big blind eye
And my swollen nose
Every time that she walks by

Yeah, yeah
I know you can't stand
Hey, hey, yeah
Or just a memory 
I got the love
Ooh
But I just have enough
But I just can't fuck it

Every time that she walks by
Every time that she walks by

Yeah...
Hey, hey I just fucking show

My loving on your knees

Well I just can't stand it
Well I just can't have it

I've got two left feet
Every time that she walks by

Well I can't (...)
Well I just can't fuck it
Yeah, well I just can't suck it
...she walks by
Every time that she walks by

Hey, hey, hey
Huh, huh, huh

Etcetera
Etcetera
Etcetera

 
 
TrackTalk

Keith sang a guide vocal as he was playing the guitar, and he was just improvising. No one's ever heard it. It's really cool.
- Don Was, 2010




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