Mona
(I
Need You Baby)
Composer: Ellas
McDaniel Original
performer: Bo
Diddley (1958)
Recording date: January
1964
Recording location: Regent Sound Studios,
London
Producer: Andrew
Oldham
Engineer:
Bill
Farley
Performed onstage: 1963-64,
1981


Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Brian
Jones and Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Tambourine: Brian
Jones (?)
Maracas: Mick
Jagger
Handclaps: ---
I say Hey Mona
Oh Mona
I say Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, Mona
Oh Mona
I tell you, Mona, what I want to do
I'll build a house next door
to you
Can I see you sometime?
We can go kissing through the blinds
Yeah come out, come out on the front
And listen to my heart go bumpety bump
Need you, baby, that's no lie
Without your love I'll surely die
I say Hey, hey Mona
Oh Mona
I say Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Mona
Oh Mona
I say Hey, hey Mona
Oh Mona
I say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, Mona
Oh Mona
I tell you, Mona, what I want to do
I'm going to build a house next door
to you
Can I see you sometime?
We can go kissing through the blinds
Yeah come out, come out on the front
Listen to my heart go bumpety bump
Need you, baby, that's no lie
Without your love I'll surely die
I say Hey, hey, hey Mona
Oh Mona
I say Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, Mona
Oh Mona
TrackTalk
I've never heard anybody, before or since, get
that Bo Diddley thing down. Diddley himself was astounded, saying that
Brian was the only cat he knew who'd worked out the secret of it.
-
Keith Richards
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