Time Is On My Side
(version 2)
Composer: Norman Meade Original
performer: Irma Thomas (1964)
First release: UK
LP The Rolling Stones No. 2, January 1965
First US release: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), 1966
Recording date: November
1964 Recording
location: Chess Studios, Chicago, USA
Producer: Andrew
Oldham Engineer:
Ron
Malo
Performed onstage: 1964-66,
1981-82, 1998

Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards (incl. solo) & Brian Jones
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Organ: Ian Stewart
Tambourine: Mick Jagger
Time is on my side
Yes it is
Time is on my side
Yes it is
Now you always say
That you want to be free
But you'll come running back - I said you would, baby
You'll come running back - like I told you so many times before
You'll come running back to me
Yes, time is on my side
Yes it is
Time is on my side
Yes it is
You're searching for good times
But just wait and see
You'll come running back - I said you would darling
You'll come running back - I'll spend the rest of my life with you, baby
You'll come running back to me
Go ahead, baby, go ahead, go ahead and light up the town
And, baby, do everything your heart desires - remember, I will always be around
And I know, I know like I told you so many times before you're going to come back
Yeah you're going to be coming back, baby, knocking, yeah, knocking right on my door, yeah, yeah, yeah
Time is on my side
Yes it is
Time is on my side
Yes it is
Cause I've got the real love
The kind that you need
You'll come running back - I said you would some day
You'll come running back - like I told you before
You'll come running back
To me
Yes, time, time, time is on my side
Yes it is
Yes, time, time, time is on my side
Yes it is
Yes, time, time, time is on my side
TrackTalk
In America we were basically known for heavy,
slowish kind of ballads. Time Is On My Side, Tell Me, Heart
of Stone, that was what we were known for. Strangely enough that was
our thing. Every single was a slow song. Who would believe it? You'd think
they'd be clamoring for out-and-out rock and roll, but no, it was the fuckin'
soul ballads that happened for us in America.
- Keith Richards, c. 1979
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