(c)1969 Words & Music Mick Jagger - Keith Richards
Track #3 on "Sticky Fingers", #7 on "Stripped".
Track #5 on side 2 of Flying Burrito Bros´s album "Burrito Deluxe"
Arr. stagwolf
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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.
Wild horses couldn´t drag me away. Wild, wild horses, couldn´t drag me away.
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.
Wild horses couldn´t drag me away. Wild, wild horses, couldn´t drag me away. [break
I know I´ve dreamed you a sin and a lie I got my freedom, but I don´t have much time.
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried let´s do some living after love dies.
Wild horses couldn´t drag me away, wild, wild horses, we´ll ride them someday
Wild horses couldn´t drag me away, wild, wild horses, we´ll ride them someday.
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Guitar tuned down half step
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This started as a song for Keith Richard's newborn son Marlon. It was 1969 and Keith regretted that he had to leave his son to go on tour.
Mick Jagger rewrote Keith's lyrics, keeping only the line "Wild horses couldn't drag me away." His rewrite was based on his relationship with Marianne Faithfull, which was disintegrating.
This was first released by Gram Parsons' Flying Burrito Brothers in 1970. The Stones' version was written in 1969, but had to wait for Sticky Fingers in 1971.
Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time, the singer Marianne Faithfull, claims "Wild horses couldn't drag me away" was the first thing she said to Mick after she pulled out of a drug-induced coma in 1969.
There are other theories as to Mick's muse for this song, however. Jagger's longtime girlfriend Jerry Hall in The Observer Magazine April 29, 2007, said: "Wild Horses is my favourite Stones song.
It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca." (Not likely, since Jagger didn't meet his future wife Bianca until 1970, which was after the song was recorded.)
The Stones recorded this during a three day session at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama December 2-4, 1969.
It was the last of three songs done at these sessions, after "Brown Sugar" and "You Gotta Move."
When The Stones left The Shoals, they headed for Altamont, California, where they gave a free concert on December 6, 1969 - a disastrous show where a fan was stabbed to death by a Hell's Angels security guard. In the documentary Gimme Shelter, which chronicles the concert, there is a scene where the band is listening to playback on "Wild Horses" Muscle Shoals Sound.
The Sticky Fingers album had very elaborate packaging. Designed by Andy Warhol, the cover photo was a close up of a man's jeans with a real zipper on it.
It was also the first time the tongue logo was used. Ian Stewart, who usually played piano for The Stones, refused to play on this because he hated minor chords, which is how this starts.
He left the session and Jim Dickinson was brought in to play piano. After playing with The Stones, Dickinson worked as a musician and a producer with Aretha Franklin, Big Star and the Replacements, and did a lot of movie soundtrack music with Ry Cooder. He died on August 15, 2009 at age 67.
Stones guitarist Mick Taylor played acoustic guitar on this song in what's known as "Nashville tuning," in which you use all first and second strings and you tune them in octaves.
That's just the beginning of the hands this song has passed through. Future artists to cover the song would include The Sundays, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Guns N' Roses, Jewel, Dave Matthews, Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, Susan Boyle, and BlackHawk, to name a few. To anyone reading this, please check and see if you have made a cover version of this song as well.
15 сен 2024
