Pass The Wine
(Sophia Loren)

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: July 1971, October-November 1971 & Fall 2009
Recording locations: Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Keith Richards' home, Villefranche-sur-mer, France; One East Studio, New York City, USA;

The Village & Mix This!, Los Angeles, USA; & unidentified studio, London, England

Producer: Jimmy Miller, Don Was & The Glimmer Twins     Chief engineers: Glyn Johns, Andy Johns & Krish Sharma 
Mixer: Bob Clearmountain             Never performed onstage


Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards, Mick Taylor & Mick Jagger
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Lisa Fischer & Cindy Mizelle
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
Trumpet: Jim Price
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Maracas: Mick Jagger
Percussion: 
Jimmy Miller
 

Walking down the street with a sad face
Always complaining about the rat race
Nobody said that life was free and easy

Your job it sucks, it’s on the line
Your wife act mean, your kids all crying
I need something that’s guaranteed to please me

But listen, I’ll tell you

I’m glad to be alive and kicking
I’m glad to hear my heart’s still ticking
So pass me the wine, baby, and let’s make some love, yeah

Sometimes things don’t work out the way you want
I don’t know if I’m going to laugh or cry

Ah
Yeah

Mmm

Your friends will never call you back
You’re feeling such a sad sack
Like some snack that’s gone all cold and greasy, yes

The car you drive a rusty wreck
It’s always you that pays the check
Who said that life was warm and peachy?

But listen, yeah, I’ll tell you

I’m glad to be alive and kicking
My blood is up, my pulse is quickening
Pass the wine bowl but let’s make some love

Sometimes things don’t work out the way you want
I wonder why, I wonder why - ah yeah
Sometimes mistakes come back to haunt you, baby
And I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, yeah

Hey, come on

Got to be alive and kicking
Glad to be alive and kicking
I’m glad to have a pot to piss in
Glad to be alive and kicking

You got to be alive and kicking

Kicking yeah, come on
Kicking yeah, come... come on
Kicking yeah (...)

Got to be alive and kicking
Got to be alive and kicking
Glad to see the plot is thickening
Pass the wine, let’s make some love

Let’s make some love - let's make some love
Let’s make some love - let's make some love
Let’s make some love - let's make some love
Let’s make some love

 
 
TrackTalk

Pass the Wine... was very, very long, so I edited it down.
- Mick Jagger, 2010


To hear Nicky Hopkins' piano on Sophia Loren was a treasure.
- Keith Richards, 2010




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