Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards First release: Performance
(soundtrack) LP, September 1970 Recording date: September-October 1968 and early 1970
Recording
location: London, England & Los
Angeles, United States Producer: Jack
Nitzsche Engineer:
unknown
Line-up:
Drums: Gene Parsons Bass: Jerry
Scheff Electric guitar: Russ
Titelman Slide electric guitar: Ry
Cooder Vocal: Mick
Jagger Organ: Jack
Nitzsche Percussion: (unknown)
Didn't I see
you down in San Antone On a hot and
dusty night? You were
eating eggs in Sammy's When the
black man there drew his knife
Ah you
drowned that Jew in Rampton As he washed
his sleeveless shirt You know,
that Spanish speaking gentleman The one that
we all call Kirk
Come
now, gentlemen I know
there's some mistake How forgetful
I'm becoming Now you've
fixed your business straight
I
remember you in Hemlock Road In 1956 You're a
faggy, little leather boy With a
smaller piece of stick
You're
a lashing, smashing hunk of man Your sweat
shines sweet and strong Your organ's
working perfectly But there's a
part that's not screwed on
Weren't
you at the Coke convention Back in 1965? You're the
misbred, grey executive I've seen
heavily advertised
You're
the great, grey man whose daughter licks
Policemen's buttons clean You're the
man who squats behind the man Who works the
soft machine
Come
now, gentlemen Your love is
all I crave You'll still
be in the circus when I'm laughing Laughing in
my grave
When
the old men do the fighting And the young
men all look on And the young
girls eat their mothers' meat From tubes of
plasticon
Be
wary, please, my gentle friends Of all the
skins you breed They have a
tasty habit They eat the
hands that bleed
So
remember who you say you are And keep your
noses clean Boys will be
boys and play with toys So be strong
with your beast
Oh Rosie
dear, don't you think it's queer So stop me if
you please The baby's
dead, my lady said: You gentlemen, why you all work for me
