Sad Day

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
First release: 19th Nervous Breakdown single B-side, February 1966
Recording date: December 1965       Recording location: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitar: Keith Richards
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Jack Nitzsche
OrganIan Stewart or Brian Jones
Nitzsche-phone: Jack Nitzsche
 

Someone woke me up this morning
And I lit a cigarette

Found myself and I stopped yawning
Started getting myself dressed


Then I thought that I had a dream
I remembered the things that I'd seen

I could still hear the things you said
From that bad dream in my head


It was a sad day, bad day

Sad day, bad day

So I called you on the phone
And your friend said She's not home

So I told her where I'd be at
And that you should call me back


Then I looked at the morning mail
I was not even expecting a bill

Your letter started Dear
And it left me with these tears


It was a sad day, bad day

Sad day, bad day

Think of the times that we had rows
But we patched them up somehow

Think of the times I tried to go
But you screamed and told me no


There is only one thing in this world
That I can't understand, that's a girl

I keep reading the things you said
Like a bad dream in my head


It was a sad day, bad day

Sad day, bad day

It what a sad, sad, old day
A sad, old day, it was a sad, old day
A sad, old day, it was a bad, old day
Sad, old day, a bad, old day

If there is just one thing in this world
That I can't understand, that's a girl


It was a sad, sad old day
Sad old day, it was a bad, old day
 


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