She's a Rainbow

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: May 1967        Recording location: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
Producers: The Rolling Stones        Chief engineer: Glyn Johns
Performed onstage: 1997-98, 2016-19, 2021-22, 2024

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Mellotron (incl. horn sounds): Brian Jones
Tambourine: Charlie Watts
Congas: Mick Jagger
Strings: (unknown musicians; arranged by John Paul Jones)
 

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair

She's like a rainbow
Coming colors in the air
Oh everywhere
She comes in colors

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair

She's like a rainbow
Coming colors in the air
Oh everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her dressed in blue
Seen the sky in front of you?
And her face is like a sail, speck of white so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair

She's like a rainbow
Coming colors in the air
Oh everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots colors all around like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair

She's like a rainbow
Coming colors in the air
Oh everywhere
She comes in colors

She's like a rainbow
Coming colors in the air
Oh everywhere
She comes in colors 


TrackTalk

When I first wrote it, and when we first did it, I think Mick and I first thought about it as this like of music box. When you get down to playing it onstage, then it's another song. And I realize there's more in the song than I thought.

- Keith Richards, April 2016
 

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