Mannish Boy

Composers: McKinley Morganfield, Ellas McDaniel & Mel London      Original performer: Muddy Waters (1955)
First release: Love You Live, September 1977
Recording date: March 1977       Recording location: El Mocambo Club, Toronto, Canada (live)
Producers: The Glimmer Twins        Engineers: Keith Harwood, Ron Nevison & Eddie Kramer
Performed onstage: 1977, 1986, 2002-03

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocal: Billy Preston
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Piano: Billy Preston
Percussion: Ollie Brown
 

Oh yeah, yeah
Oh yeah

Everything going to be all right


Oh yeah, yeah

Now when I was a young boy, at the age of 5
My mother said I'll be the greatest man alive
And now I'm a man, I'm over 21
You better believe me, baby, and I say we can have lots of fun

I'm a man - huh huh huh huh
A man - oh yeah

Oh yeah - oh yeah
Oh yeah

The line I shoot will never miss
The way I make love to you, baby, you just can't resist
 
Ooh! Ain't that a man?
Spelled M -  A, child - N
No BO, child - Y
That spell mannish boy

I'm a man
I'm a man

I'm a man

I'm a man

Ooh!

I'm sitting on the outside, just me and my mate
I made the move, come up 2 hours late
 
Ain't that a man?
No BO, child - Y
That spell mannish boy

I'm a man
I'm a man

I'm a full grown man, baby, Lord I say

Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah

All you pretty women, stand in line

I make love with you, baby, in an hour's time

I'm a man
I'm a man

 
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh

Ooh! Ooh!

Oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Oh yeah, oh yeah
(...) - oh yeah
Oh, oh
Oh, oh




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