Fool to Cry
Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: December 1974 & October &
December 1975
Recording locations: Musicland Studios, Munich, West
Germany & Mountain Recording
Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Producers: The Glimmer
Twins Chief engineer: Keith
Harwood
Performed onstage: 1976-77, 1995,
1997-99, 2018, 2021-22, 2024
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill
Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Wayne Perkins
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Electric piano: Mick Jagger
Synthesizer: Nicky Hopkins
When I come
home, baby, and I've been working all night long
I put my
daughter on my knee
And she
says Daddy, what's wrong?
She whispers in
my ear so sweet
You know what
she say? She say
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why
Daddy, you're a fool
You know
I've got a woman (Daddy you're a
fool) and she live in a poor part of town
And I go see her
sometimes and we make love so fine
I put my head on
her shoulder and she say Tell me all your troubles
You know what
she say? She say
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why
Daddy, you're a fool to cry - oh I love you so
much, baby
Daddy, you're a fool to cry
Daddy, you're a fool to cry - I want to sigh
sometimes, yeah
Yeah, she say:
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why
She say:
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
Even my friends say it to me sometimes
I make out like
I don't understand them
You know what
they say?
They say
Ooh Daddy, you're a fool to cry
You're a fool to cry
And it makes me wonder why
Why, why
I'm a fool, baby, ah yeah
I'm a fool, baby, ah yeah
I'm a certified
fool, ah yeah
I want to
tell...
Tell the things
(...) you say
I'm a fool, baby, ah yeah
Ooh certified fool for
you, mama, yeah, yeah
Come on, yes,
I'm a fool, yeah
I'm a fool, yes
I'm a fool'
TrackTalk
It's
surprising, isn't it? It's the family side. Well, it IS true,
the Stones ARE getting on, and have done it with a lot of girls
and what could be surprising if you've got children, eh? At the
end! Keith's had SO many, I don't know... and other girls have
claimed that they've got my baby and it's not true...
- Mick Jagger, 1976
This
dates from the period when I had a young child, my daughter
Jade, around a lot, calling me daddy and all that. It's
another of our heartmelting ballads, a bit long and waffly at
the end maybe, but I like it.
- Mick Jagger, 1993
Yeah,
maybe Loretta Lynn will cover it. Yeah, it could be country. I
wonder why we didn't do it like that! Dead Flowers was
country. This is quite good the way it is, though, really. Just
a ballad.
- Mick Jagger, 1976
I
don't really think there is a single there. But a lot of people
seem to like this, and everyone says it's the single... In
Europe it's going to be a single, because they don't have FM
radio like they do here, they don't play albums.
- Mick Jagger, April 1976
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