Had
It with You
Composers: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Recording date: April-December
1985
Recording locations: Pathé
Marconi Studios, Paris, France; RPM Studios & Right Track Studios, New York City, USA
Producers: Steve
Lillywhite & The Glimmer Twins
Chief engineer:
Dave Jerden
Never performed onstage
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Saxophone: Ron
Wood
Harmonica: Mick
Jagger
And I love you, dirty fucker
Sister and brother
Moaning in the moonlight
Singing for your supper
Cause I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it
with you
Always trying to taunt me
Always seemed to haunt me
Serving out injunctions
Shouting out instructions
Cause I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it, we're through
And I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it
with you
And I loved you with a passion
In and out of fashion
Always stuck behind you
Others tried to blind you
And I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it
with you
Oh, oh
It is such a sad thing
To watch a love all dry
I've had it up to here, baby
I've got to say goodbye
Cause I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
Yeah, you loved me in the lean years
Loved you in the fat ones
You're a mean mistreater
You're a dirty, dirty rat scum
Yeah I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
And I had it, I had it, I had
it, I had it with you
Oh I had it, I had it, I had it, I had it
with you
Had it with you
Had it with you
Had it with you
Had it with you
Had it with you
Had it with you - ooh
Had it with you
Had it with you
Whoo!
TrackTalk
I wrote Had It with You
in Ronnie's front room in Chiswick, right on the banks of the Thames.
We were waiting to go to Paris, but the weather was so dodgy that we
were stranded until the Dover ferry started rolling again. Peter Cook
and (my father) were hanging about. There was no heating, and the only
way to keep warm was to turn on the amps. I don't think I'd ever
written a song before, apart maybe from All About You, in which I realized I was actually singing about Mick.
-
Keith Richards, Life (2010)
Had It with You was... just a couple of
takes. I went in the control room and said, I'm not playing on this
one, you lot get in there - the original band - and it was great. Mick
did that live harp, and I just put a little sax in the background, like
a rhythm sax.
-
Ron Wood, 1988
Yeah, the basic track was cut with Charlie
on drums, me on guitar and Mick on vocal and harp. We tried it with the
full band and we realized we were just sounding like the Rolling Stones
doing the Rolling Stones' favorite sort of Ye Olde Famous Rolling Stones
Sound. But then, when we took the bass and the piano and the extra
guitars off, it just sat right on the button. It came off sounding like
a live radio broadcast that way. And at a slightly later date Ronnie and
I did one overdub at the same time. But, I mean, there's nothing in the
RULE BOOK that says you've GOT to have a bass on there. And then there's
that middle breakdown part that almost trips over itself (laughs). Cutting
a good blues track is not easy: it's all been done a million times, and
to add something new to it is not so much a matter of THOUGHT as FEEL.
-
Keith Richards, 1985
That thicker, overdriven (guitar) sound on
Had It with You comes from changing the settings on the Fender Twin,
that's all.
-
Alan Rogan, guitar technician
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