Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
12-string acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitar: Keith Richards
Piano: Ian Stewart
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Tambourine: Brian Jones
 

I want you back again
I want your love again

I know you find it hard to reason with me
But this time it's different, darling you'll see

You've got to tell me you're coming back to me

You said we're through before
You walked out on me before

I tried to tell you but you didn't want to know
This time you're different and determined to go

Oh yeah

I wait as the days go by
I long for the nights to go by

I hear the knock on my door that never comes
I hear the telephone that hasn't rung

I'm coming home, baby
 
 

TrackTalk

Tell Me, which was pulled out as a single in America,... was a dub. Half those records were dubs on that first album, that Mick and I and Charlie and  I'd put a bass on or maybe Bill was there and he'd put a bass on. Let's put it down while we remember it and the next thing we know is, Oh look, track 8 is that dub we did a couple months ago. That's how little control we had.

I (played the acoustic). I was a proud owner of a 12-string at the time. Actually, I had two: a Harmony and a Guild. The Guild was very nice.

Keith was playing 12-string and singing harmonies into the same microphone as the 12-string. We recorded it in this tiny studio in the West End of London called Regent Sound, which was a demo studio. I think the whole of that album was recorded in there. But it's very different from doing those R&B covers or Marvin Gaye covers and all that. There's a definite feel about it. It's a very POP song, as opposed to all the blues covers and the Motown covers, which everyone did at the time.

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