Who's Driving Your Plane?

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
First release: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? single B-side, September 1966
Recording date: August-September 1966       Recording locations: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA & IBC Studios, London, England

Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineers: Dave Hassinger 
& Glyn Johns
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Pianos: Jack Nitzsche & Ian Stewart
Harmonica: Brian Jones
 

It was your father who trained you and your mother who brained you
To be so useless and shy
But I just replaced them and I tried not to break them
Cause you can stand up if you try
But I want to see your face when your knees and your legs
Are just going to break down and die

And who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Are you in control
Or is it driving you insane?


If I could wave the magic wand
Then maybe you'd change back to being a blonde
And your skirt would come down
It would cover your feet
If I said it's not camp to wear Tiffany lamps
You'd be thrown right out in the street

And I wonder who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Are you in control
Or is it driving you insane?

 

You could stand on your head or maybe sing in your bed
If I said it was the thing to do
If you're in with the faces and their getaway places
Cause they don't take no notice of you
Well the trendy pace-setters will just call you a pain
Cause I want to know who's driving your plane


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