Line-up:
Drums:
Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill
Wyman
Electric
guitar: Keith
Richards
Slide
electric guitar (& solo): Brian
Jones
Lead
vocal: Mick
Jagger
Backing
vocal:
Brian Jones
I
want to be your lover, baby
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your lover, baby
I
want to be your man
Tell
me that you love me, baby
Tell
me
you understand
Tell
me that you love me, baby
Tell
me
you understand
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
I
want to be your man
Yeah,
tell
me that you love me, baby
Tell
me
you understand
Tell
me that you love me, baby
Tell
me
you understand
Yes,
I
want to be your lover, baby
I
want to be your man
Yes,
I
want to be, I want to be your baby
I
want to be your man
Yeah...
TrackTalk
(John and Paul) were very
much
into hustling songs.
Everybody was doing Beatles' songs and they were going straight
into
the
charts. But we liked that song and the fact that John and Paul
came
down
to a rehearsal of ours and laid it on us. We hadn't heard their
version,
we just heard John and Paul on piano, banging it out, you know.
And we
picked it up and it was just one of those jams... THEY got
enthusiastic,
WE got enthusiastic and we said, Right, we'll cut it
tomorrow.
-
Keith Richards, c. 1982
We came up with I Wanna Be Your Man
- a Bo Diddley kind of thing. I said to Mick, Well, Ringo's
got
this
track on our album, but it won't be a single and it might suit
you guys.
I knew Mick was into maracas, from when we'd seen them down at
the
Crawdaddy.
-
John Lennon
John and Paul ran through I Wanna Be Your
Man for us. Paul, being left-handed, amazed me by playing
my bass
backward.
Brian tried slide on it, which sounded great.
-
Bill Wyman, Rolling With The Stones, 2002
Well, we knew (the Beatles) by then and we
were rehearsing and Andrew
brought
Paul and John down to the rehearsal. They said they had this
tune, they
were really hustlers then. I mean the way they used to hustle
tunes was
great: Hey Mick, we've got this great song. So they
played it
and
we thought it sounded pretty commercial, which is what we were
looking
for, so we did it like Elmore James or something. I haven't
heard it
for
ages but it must be pretty freaky 'cause nobody really produced
it...
It
was completely crackers, but it was a hit and sounded great
onstage.
-
Mick Jagger, 1968
We kind of learned it pretty quickly 'cause
there wasn't that much to learn. Then Brian got his slide out,
his
steel
(guitar) out and dadaw... dadaw... and we said, Yeah,
that's
better,
dirty it up a bit and bash it out, and we kind of
completely
turned the song around and made it much more tough, Stones- and
Elmore
James-like.
-
Bill Wyman, c. 1982
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