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Street Girl
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
First release: UK
version of Between the Buttons LP, January 1967 1st
US release: Flowers, June 1967
Recording date: August
& November 1966
Recording locations: RCA
Studios, Los Angeles, USA; Olympic Studios & Pye Studios, London, England
Producer: Andrew
Oldham Engineers:
Dave
Hassinger & Glyn Johns
Never performed onstage
Probable line-up:
Tambourine: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Keith
Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Vibraphone: Brian
Jones
French accordion: Nick De Caro
Harpsichord: Jack
Nitzsche
I don't want you to be high
I don't want you to be down
Don't want to tell you no lie
Just want you to be around
Please come right up to my ears
You will be able to hear what I say
Don't want you out in my world
Just you be my back street girl
Please don't be part of my life
Please keep yourself to yourself
Please don't you bother my wife
That way you won't get no help
Don't try to ride on my horse
You're rather common and coarse anyway
Don't want you out in my world
Just you be my back street girl
Please don't you call me at home
Please don't come knocking at night
Please never ring on the phone
Your manners are never quite right
Please take the favors I grant
Curtsy and look nonchalant just for me
Don't want you part of my world
Just you be my back street girl
Just you be my back street girl
TrackTalk
I wrote this in some weird place which I can't
remember. It's got the feeling of a French café about it. I just
thought about this chick... it was an easy number to write. Nice ballad.
-
Mick Jagger, 1967
That's the only decent song [on Between
The Buttons].
-
Mick Jagger, 1975
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