100
Years Ago
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: November-December
1972 & May-June 1973
Recording
locations: Dynamic
Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica & Island
Recording Studios, London, England
Producer: Jimmy
Miller
Chief engineer:
Andy
Johns
Performed onstage: 1973

Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith
Richards
Electric guitars: Mick
Taylor
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Clavinet: Billy
Preston
Tambourine: Jimmy
Miller
Went out
walking through the wood the other
day
And the world
was a carpet laid before me
The buds were
bursting and the air smelled
sweet and strange
It seemed
about a hundred years ago
Mary
and I, we would sit upon a gate
Just gazing
at some dragon in the sky
What tender
days, we had no secrets hid away
Well it
seemed about a hundred years ago
Now
all my friends is wearing worried smiles
Living out a
dream of what they was
Don't you
think it's sometimes wise not to
grow up?
Went out
walking through the wood the other
day
Can't you see
the furrows in my forehead?
What tender
days, we had no secrets hid away
Now it seemed
about a hundred years ago
Now if you see me drinking bad red wine
Don't worry
about this man that you love
Don't you
think it's sometimes wise not to
grow up?
You're going to kiss those days goodbye
Yeah, I
warn you, yeah
Yes, you're going to kiss those days goodbye
Yeah, I
warn you
Yeah, you're going to kiss those days goodbye
Lord, I warn
you
Please excuse me while I hide away
Call me lazy bones
Ain't got no
time to waste away
Lazy bones
Ain't got no time to waste away
Don't you think it's just about time to hide
away?
Yeah, yeah
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on, come one, come on, come on,
come
on, come on...
Yeah, ah kiss
me, yeah
Kiss me
Come on and
kiss
Kiss me,
baby, kiss me, baby
Goodbye,
goodbye yeah
Goodbye yeah,
goodbye yeah
Come on
Come on baby, kiss me
Yeah,
you're going to kiss those
days goodbye
I warn you
I warn you, I
warn you
I warn you, I
warn you
I warn you...
come on, baby
TrackTalk
Some of the songs we used (for the album) were
pretty old. 100 Years Ago was one that Mick (Jagger) had written
2 years ago and which we hadn't really got around to using before.
-
Mick Taylor, 1973
I mean, the rhythmic stuff, like the stuff on Criss Cross,
that’s Billy Preston and Nicky (Hopkins). The fashion at that time was
playing the clavinet with the wah-wah stuff, and that gives it this
certain push. It’s not Herbie Hancock exactly. (You can hear it) on 100 Years Ago and then Criss Cross...
- Mick Jagger, August 2020
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