Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

1971 Released

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Brown Sugar

03 : 49

Sway

03 : 53

Wild Horses

05 : 44

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

07 : 16

You Gotta Move

02 : 34

Bitch

03 : 38

I Got the Blues

03 : 55

Sister Morphine

05 : 35

Dead Flowers

04 : 05

Moonlight Mile

05 : 57

Brown Sugar (alternate version)

04 : 07

Wild Horses (acoustic)

05 : 47

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (alternate version)

03 : 24

Bitch (extended version)

05 : 53

Dead Flowers (alternate version)

04 : 18

Live With Me (live at the Roundhouse / 1971)

04 : 22

Stray Cat Blues (live at the Roundhouse / 1971)

03 : 48

Love in Vain (live at the Roundhouse / 1971)

06 : 42

Midnight Rambler (live at the Roundhouse / 1971)

11 : 27

Honky Tonk Women (live at the Roundhouse / 1971)

04 : 14

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Track Lyrics

Brown Sugar Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in the market down in New Orleans

Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright

Hear him whip the women just around midnight

[Chorus]

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Uh huh

Brown sugar, just like a young girl should, uh huh, oh (Woo)

[Verse 2]

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot

Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop

House boy knows that he's doing alright

You shoulda heard 'em just around midnight

[Chorus]

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good now?

Brown sugar, just like a young girl should now (Yeah)

[Chorus]

Ah, get on, brown sugar, how come you taste so good?

Ah, got me craving the, the brown sugar

Just like a black girl should, yeah

[Verse 3]

Ah, and I bet your mama was a tent show queen

And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen

I'm no schoolboy, but I know what I like

You shoulda heard me just around midnight

[Chorus]

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good, baby?

Ah, come down, brown sugar

Just like a young girl should, yeah

[Outro]

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

How come you, how come you taste so good?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Just like a, just like a black girl should

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Sway Lyrics

[Intro]

One, two, three, four

[Verse 1]

Did you ever wake up to find

A day that broke up your mind?

Destroyed your notion of circular time?

[Chorus]

It's just that demon life has got you in its sway

[Verse 2]

Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground

For my friends out on the burial ground

Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down

[Chorus]

It's just that evil life that got me in its sway

[Bridge]

There must be ways to find out

Love is the way they say is really strutting out

[Verse 3]

Whoo

Hey, hey, hey now

One day I woke up to find

Right in the bed next to mine

Someone that broke me up with a corner of her smile, yeah

[Chorus]

It's just that demon life that got me in its sway

(It's just that demon life that got me in its sway)

[Outro]

It's just that demon life has got me

Wild Horses Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Childhood living is easy to do

The things you wanted, I bought them for you

Graceless lady, you know who I am

You know I can't let you slide through my hands

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away

[Verse 2]

I watched you suffer a dull, aching pain

Now you decided to show me the same

No sweeping exits or offstage lines

Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away

[Verse 3]

I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie

I have my freedom, but I don't have much time

Faith has been broken, tears must be cried

Let's do some living after we die

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking Lyrics

[Part I]

[Intro]

(Uh!)

(Yeah)

[Verse 1]

Yeah, you got satin shoes

Yeah, you got plastic boots

Y'all got cocaine eyes

Yeah, you got speed-freak jive, now

Can't you hear me knockin' on your window?

Can't you hear me knockin' on your door?

Can't you hear me knockin' down your dirty street?

Yeah

[Chorus 1]

Help me, baby, ain't no stranger

[Verse 2]

Can't you hear me knockin'? Ah, are you safe asleep?

Can't you hear me knockin'? Yeah, down the gas light street, now

Can't you hear me knockin'? Yeah, throw me down the keys

All right now

[Chorus 2]

Hear me ringing big bell tolls

Hear me singing soft and low

I've been begging on my knees

I've been kickin', help me please

[Vocal Outro]

Hear me prowlin'

(I'm gonna take you down)

Hear me growlin'

(Yeah, I've got flat-ten feet now, now, now, now)

Hear me howlin'

(And all, all around your street now)

Hear me knockin'

(And all, all around your town)

[Part II]

[Instrumental]

You Gotta Move Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You got to move

You got to move, child

You got to move

Oh, when the Lord get ready

You got to move

[Verse 2]

You may be high

You may be low

You may be rich, child

You may be poor

But when the Lord get ready

You got to move

[Vocalizing]

[Verse 3]

You see that woman

Who walks the street

You see that police

Upon his beat

But when the Lord get ready

You got to move

[Vocalizing]

[Outro]

You got to move

Bitch Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I'm feeling so tired, can't understand it

Just had a fortnight's sleep

I'm feeling so stuffed, I'm so distracted

Ain't touched a thing all week

I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy

Ain't touched a drink all night

I'm feeling hungry, can't see the reason

Just had a horse meat pie

[Chorus]

Yeah when you call my name

I salivate like a Pavlov dog

Yeah when you lay me out

My heart is beating louder than a big bass drum, alright

[Bridge]

Yeah, you got to mix it, child, you got to fix

It must be love, it's a bitch

Yeah, you got to mix it, child, you got to fix

It must be love, it's a bitch, alright

[Verse 2]

Sometimes, I'm sexy, move like a stud

Like kicking the stall all night

Sometimes, I'm so shy, got to be worked on

Don't have no bark or bite, alright

[Chorus]

Yeah, when you call my name

I salivate like a Pavlov dog

Yeah, when you lay me out

My heart is bumping louder than a big bass drum, alright

[Outro]

I want it, woo

I said, hey, yeah, get alright now, get it

Got to be

Hey, I'll get alright now, get it

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah, get on

Hey, hey, hey

I Got the Blues Lyrics

[Verse 1]

As I stand by your flame

I get burned once again

Feeling low down, I'm blue

[Verse 2]

As I sit by the fire

Of your warm desire

I've got the blues for you, yeah

[Bridge]

Every night you've been away, a hey, a hey

I've sat down, and I have prayed

That you're safe

[Verse 3]

In the arms of a guy

Who will bring you alive

Won't drag you down with abuse

[Organ solo]

[Verse 4]

In the silk sheet of time

I will find peace of mind

Love is a bed full of blues

[Outro]

And I've got the blues for you

And I'll bust my brains out for you

And I'll tear my hair out

I'm going to tear my hair out just for you

If you don't believe what I'm singing

At three o'clock in the morning, babe, well

I'm singing my song for you

Sister Morphine Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Here I lie in my hospital bed

Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming ‘round again?

Oh, and I don't think I can wait that long

Oh, you see that I'm not that strong

[Verse 2]

The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears

Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here?

What am I doing in this place?

Why does the doctor have no face?

Oh, I can't crawl across the floor

Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score?

[Instrumental Break]

Hey

[Verse 3]

Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem

Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams

Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?

And that this shot will be my last?

[Verse 4]

Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool, cool hand on my head

Ah, come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed

Because you know, and I know, in the morning I'll be dead

Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah, and you can watch

All the clean white sheets stained red

[Outro]

Hey

Yeah

Dead Flowers Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair

Talking to some rich folk that you know

Well, I hope you won't see me in my ragged company

Well, you know I could never be alone

[Chorus]

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

And you can send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flowers by the mail

Send me dead flowers to my wedding

And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

[Verse 2]

Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac

Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day

I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon

And another girl can take my pain away

[Chorus]

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

And you can send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flowers by the mail

Send me dead flowers to my wedding

And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

Hey

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

And you can send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flowers by the U.S. Mail

Say it with dead flowers at my wedding

And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave

No, I won’t forget to put roses on your grave

Moonlight Mile Lyrics

[Verse 1]

When the wind blows, and the rain feels cold

With a head full of snow, with a head full of snow

In the window, there's a face you know

Don't the night pass slow? Don't the nights pass slow?

[Chorus]

The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind

Just another mad, mad day on the road

I am just living to be lying by your side

But I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road

[Verse 2]

Made a rag pile of my shiny clothes

Going to warm my bones, going to warm my bones

I've got silence on my radio

Let the airwaves flow, let the airwaves flow

[Chorus]

For I am sleeping under strange, strange skies

Just another mad, mad day on the road

My dreams is fading down the railway line

I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Bridge]

I'm hiding, sister, and I'm dreaming

I'm riding down your moonlight mile

I'm hiding, baby, but I'm dreaming

I'm riding down your moonlight mile

Let it go now

Come on up, baby

Yeah, let it go now

Yeah

Flow now, baby

Yeah, come on now, yeah

Hey

[Outro]

Yeah, I'm coming home

'Cause I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road

On down the road, on down the road

Yeah, yeah, baby

Brown Sugar (alternate version) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in the market down in New Orleans

Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright

Hear him whip the women just around midnight

[Chorus]

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Uh huh

Brown sugar, just like a young girl should, uh huh, oh (Woo)

[Verse 2]

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot

Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop

House boy knows that he's doing alright

You shoulda heard 'em just around midnight

[Chorus]

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good now?

Brown sugar, just like a young girl should now (Yeah)

[Chorus]

Ah, get on, brown sugar, how come you taste so good?

Ah, got me craving the, the brown sugar

Just like a black girl should, yeah

[Verse 3]

Ah, and I bet your mama was a tent show queen

And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen

I'm no schoolboy, but I know what I like

You shoulda heard me just around midnight

[Chorus]

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good, baby?

Ah, come down, brown sugar

Just like a young girl should, yeah

[Outro]

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

How come you, how come you taste so good?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Just like a, just like a black girl should

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Wild Horses (acoustic) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Childhood living is easy to do

The things you wanted, I bought them for you

Graceless lady, you know who I am

You know I can't let you slide through my hands

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away

[Verse 2]

I watched you suffer a dull, aching pain

Now you decided to show me the same

No sweeping exits or offstage lines

Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away

[Verse 3]

I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie

I have my freedom, but I don't have much time

Faith has been broken, tears must be cried

Let's do some living after we die

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day

[Chorus]

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (alternate version) Lyrics

[Part I]

[Intro]

(Uh!)

(Yeah)

[Verse 1]

Yeah, you got satin shoes

Yeah, you got plastic boots

Y'all got cocaine eyes

Yeah, you got speed-freak jive, now

Can't you hear me knockin' on your window?

Can't you hear me knockin' on your door?

Can't you hear me knockin' down your dirty street?

Yeah

[Chorus 1]

Help me, baby, ain't no stranger

[Verse 2]

Can't you hear me knockin'? Ah, are you safe asleep?

Can't you hear me knockin'? Yeah, down the gas light street, now

Can't you hear me knockin'? Yeah, throw me down the keys

All right now

[Chorus 2]

Hear me ringing big bell tolls

Hear me singing soft and low

I've been begging on my knees

I've been kickin', help me please

[Vocal Outro]

Hear me prowlin'

(I'm gonna take you down)

Hear me growlin'

(Yeah, I've got flat-ten feet now, now, now, now)

Hear me howlin'

(And all, all around your street now)

Hear me knockin'

(And all, all around your town)

[Part II]

[Instrumental]

Bitch (extended version) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I'm feeling so tired, can't understand it

Just had a fortnight's sleep

I'm feeling so stuffed, I'm so distracted

Ain't touched a thing all week

I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy

Ain't touched a drink all night

I'm feeling hungry, can't see the reason

Just had a horse meat pie

[Chorus]

Yeah when you call my name

I salivate like a Pavlov dog

Yeah when you lay me out

My heart is beating louder than a big bass drum, alright

[Bridge]

Yeah, you got to mix it, child, you got to fix

It must be love, it's a bitch

Yeah, you got to mix it, child, you got to fix

It must be love, it's a bitch, alright

[Verse 2]

Sometimes, I'm sexy, move like a stud

Like kicking the stall all night

Sometimes, I'm so shy, got to be worked on

Don't have no bark or bite, alright

[Chorus]

Yeah, when you call my name

I salivate like a Pavlov dog

Yeah, when you lay me out

My heart is bumping louder than a big bass drum, alright

[Outro]

I want it, woo

I said, hey, yeah, get alright now, get it

Got to be

Hey, I'll get alright now, get it

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, yeah, get on

Hey, hey, hey

Dead Flowers (alternate version) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair

Talking to some rich folk that you know

Well, I hope you won't see me in my ragged company

Well, you know I could never be alone

[Chorus]

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

And you can send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flowers by the mail

Send me dead flowers to my wedding

And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

[Verse 2]

Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac

Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day

I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon

And another girl can take my pain away

[Chorus]

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

And you can send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flowers by the mail

Send me dead flowers to my wedding

And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

Hey

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Take me down, little Susie, take me down

I know you think you're the queen of the underground

And you can send me dead flowers every morning

Send me dead flowers by the U.S. Mail

Say it with dead flowers at my wedding

And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave

No, I won’t forget to put roses on your grave

Live With Me (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I got nasty habits…Ahh

I take tea at three

Yes, and the meat I eat for dinner

It must be hung up for a week

My best friend, he shoots water rats

And feeds them to his geese

Don't you think there's a place for you

In between the sheets?

[Chorus]

Come on now, honey

We can build a home for three (Yeah)

Come on now, honey

Don't you want to live with me?

Woo!

[Verse 2]

And there's a score of harebrained children

They're all locked in the nursery

They got earphone heads, they got dirty necks

They're so 20th century

Well, they queue up for the bathroom

'Round about 7:35

Don't you think we need a woman's touch

To make it come alive?

[Chorus]

You'd look good

Pram-pushing down the high street (Yeah)

Come on now, honey

Don't you want to live with me?

Yeah, woo!

[Saxophone solo]

[Verse 3]

Whoa, the servants they're so helpful, dear

The cook, she is a whore

Yes, the butler has a place for her

Behind the pantry door

Woo! The maid, she's French, she's got no sense

She's from the Crazy Horse

And when she strips, the chauffeur flips

The footman's eyes get crossed

Woo!

[Outro]

Don't you think there's a place for us

Right across the street?

Don'cha think there's a place for you

In between the sheets?

[Saxophone solo]

Stray Cat Blues (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

[Intro]

Ah... hey

Yeah, got some tail

[Verse 1]

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs

I know you're no scare-eyed honey

There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs, but

It's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

[Verse 2]

I can see that you're fifteen years old

No, I don't want your I.D

And I can see that you're so far from home, but

That's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh, yeah, don't you scratch like that

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet, bet your mama don't know you scream like that

I bet your mother don't know you do spit like that

[Verse 3]

You look so weird, and you're so far from home

But you don't really miss your mother

You look so scared, I'm not no mad-brained bear

But, but it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah

Woo!

I bet your mama don't know that you scratch like that

I bet she don't know you can bite like that

[Verse 4]

You say you got a friend that she's wilder than you

Why don't you bring her upstairs?

If she's so wild, then she can join in too

It's no hanging matter, huh

It's no capital crime

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh, yeah, don't you scratch like that

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet your mama don't know you can bite like that

I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back

[Outro]

Chow, bum ba bum bum, chow, bum ba bum bum bow, bum ba bum bum bow…

Love in Vain (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Well, I followed her to the station

With a suitcase in my hand

Yeah, I followed her to the station

With a suitcase in my hand

Whoa, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell

When all your love's in vain

[Verse 2]

When the train come in the station

I looked her in the eye

Well, the train come in the station

And I looked her in the eye

Whoa, I felt so sad, so lonesome

That I could not help but cry

[Guitar solo]

[Verse 3]

When the train left the station

It had two lights on behind

Yeah, when the train left the station

It had two lights on behind

Whoa, the blue light was my baby

And the red light was my mind

[Outro]

All my love's in vain

Midnight Rambler (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

Did you hear about the midnight rambler?

Everybody got to go

Did you hear about the midnight rambler

The one that shut the kitchen door?

He don't give a hoot of a warning

Wrapped up in a black-cat cloak

He don't go in the light of the morning

He split the time the cock will crow

[Verse 2]

Talkin' about the midnight gambler

The one you never seen before

Yeah, talkin' about the midnight gambler

Did you see him jump the garden wall?

Sighin' down the wind so sadly

Listen, and you'll hear him moan

Yeah, well, I'm talkin' about the midnight gambler

Everybody got to go

Yes

[Bridge]

[Verse 3]

Did you hear about the midnight rambler?

Well, honey, it's no rock 'n' roll show

Well, I'm talkin' about the midnight gambler

Yeah, the one you never seen before, yeah ahh

[Bridge]

Don't do that, don't do that, don't do that

Don't do that, don't do that

Don't do that, don't you do that

Don't you, don't you do that

Don't do that

Don't you do that

Don't you, don't you do that

Oh, don’t do that

[Bridge]

[Verse 4]

Well, you heard about the Boston…

It’s not one of those…

Well, talkin' 'bout the midnight...sh...

The one that closed the bedroom door

I'm called the hit-and-run raper in anger

The knife-sharpened tippie-toe...

Or just the shoot-'em-dead, brain-bell jangler

You know, the one you never seen before

[Verse 5]

So, if you ever meet the midnight rambler

Coming down your marble hall

Well, he's pouncing like a proud black panther

Well, you can say I, I told you so

Well, don't you listen for the midnight rambler, yeah, yeah

Play it easy, as you go

I'm gonna smash down all your plate-glass windows

Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door

[Bridge]

[Verse 6]

Did you hear about the midnight rambler?

He'll leave his footprints up and down your hall

And did you hear about the midnight gambler?

And did you see me make my midnight call?

And if you ever catch the midnight rambler

I'll steal your mistress from under your nose

I'll go easy with your cold-fanged anger

I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby

And it hurts!

Honky Tonk Women (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis

She tried to take me upstairs for a ride

She had to heave me right across her shoulder

'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

[Chorus]

It's the honky tonk women

That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

[Verse 2]

I laid a divorcee in New York City

I had to put up some kind of a fight

The lady then she covered me in roses

She blew my nose and then she blew my mind

[Chorus]

It's the honky tonk women

That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

[Verse 3]

Strollin' on the boulevards of Paris

Naked as the day that I will die

The sailors, they're so charming there in Paris

But I just don't seem to sail you off my mind

[Chorus]

It's the honky tonk women

That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

It's the honky tonk women

That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

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Track Lyrics

Brown Sugar Lyrics

Sway Lyrics

Wild Horses Lyrics

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking Lyrics

You Gotta Move Lyrics

Bitch Lyrics

I Got the Blues Lyrics

Sister Morphine Lyrics

Dead Flowers Lyrics

Moonlight Mile Lyrics

Brown Sugar (alternate version) Lyrics

Wild Horses (acoustic) Lyrics

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (alternate version) Lyrics

Bitch (extended version) Lyrics

Dead Flowers (alternate version) Lyrics

Live With Me (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

Stray Cat Blues (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

Love in Vain (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

Midnight Rambler (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics

Honky Tonk Women (live at the Roundhouse / 1971) Lyrics