Too Many Cooks
(Spoil the Soup)
Composers: Angelo Bond, Ronald Dunbar & Edith Wayne
First release: The Very Best of Mick Jagger album, September 2007
Recording date: December 1973 Recording location: The Record Plant, Los Angeles, USA
Producer: John Lennon Chief
engineer: Roy Cicala
Probable line-up:
Drums: Jim Keltner & Bruce Gary
Bass: Jack Bruce & Wolfgang Metz
Electric guitars: John Lennon, Jesse Ed Davis & Danny Kortchmar
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Unidentified female vocalists & Harry Nilsson
Keyboards: Al Kooper & Mike Finnegan
Saxophones: Bobby Keys & Trevor Lawrence
Percussion: Rocky Djubano
Don't want another man, well, loving you
Cause too many cooks will spoil the soup
I know your love is a-boiling hot
Don't want another man stick a finger in the pot
Don't you know your love making living good to me
Don't want another man changing my recipe - ha
Don't want another man loving you
Cause too many cooks will spoil the soup
Don't change, don't let nobody change you
Don't change, (don't let nobody) change you
What you got, doing that sugar, doing that spice
You bet I'm greedy to make your loving right
Don't want nobody stick their fingers down in the pot
Don't want to see you ever get down to letting it up
Your love is seasoned just right for me
Don't want nobody changing my recipe
Don't want to try nobody new
Cause too many cooks will spoil the soup
Don't change, don't let nobody change you
Don't change, don't let nobody change (you)
Don't change, don't let (nobody change you)
No (Don't change, don't let nobody change)
Every time I see that you're into something new
Well who been teaching you a new thing to do?
Yeah, don't want nobody drinking from my cup
Don't want to see you ever get down living it up
Don't change, don't let nobody change
Well, honey your love is seasoned right for me
Don't want another man changing my recipe
Don't want another man loving you
Cause too many cooks damn well spoil the soup
Don't change, yeah (Don't let nobody change you) Sing the song
(Don't change, don't let nobody change you) Ha, well, well
Don't change, don't let nobody change you
Don't change, don't let nobody (change you) - whoa
Don't change, don't let nobody change (you)
Don't change, don't let nobody (change you) - whoa now
(Don't change, don't let nobody change you) Well, somebody - my
Ain't going to let somebody, ain't going to (Don't change, don't let nobody change you)
Let somebody change you, I ain't going to, I'm going to stick out... (Don't change, don't let nobody change you)
TrackTalk
Normally these sessions were just blues jams.
And they'd just go on, everyone get very sort of stoned and they'd play
on it but nothing would really come out of it, you know. There wasn't
any songs that was like - so then, so (John Lennon) put on this song.
And we said, Yeah, this is great.
We could do this. We were very happy to have something to focus on. And
then we learned it very, very quickly. And John was so impressed weould
learn it. I said, You know, it's pretty easy, John. This is what we do... It was a pretty crazy time for John, but he did some interesting things. He wasn't always lost.
- Mick Jagger, 2007
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