Soul
Survivor
Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
July 1971, October-November 1971 & January-March 1972
Recording locations: Rolling
Stones Mobile Unit, Keith Richards' home, Villefranche-sur-mer, France & Sunset Sound Studios,
Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Jimmy
Miller Chief
engineers: Glyn
Johns, Andy Johns & Joe
Zagarino
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Rhythm electric guitars: Keith
Richards
Slide electric guitar: Mick
Taylor
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Tambourine: Jimmy
Miller
When the waters is rough
The sailing is tough
I'll get drowned in your love
You've got a cut throat crew, yeah
I'm going to sink under you
Oh I've got the bell bottom blues
It's going to be the death of me
Yeah, yeah, it's the graveyard watch
Running right on the rocks
I've taken all of the knocks
You ain't giving me no quarter
I'd rather drink sea water
Oh I wish I'd never had brought you
It's going to the death of me
Soul survivor
Soul survivor
Yeah I'm the soul survivor
Ah I'm the soul survivor - that's what I'm talking
A soul survivor - that's what I'm talking about
Ah, that's what I'm talking about
Yeah I'm the soul survivor
It's going to be the death of me
It's going to be the death of me
Uh huh yeah, when you're flying your flags
All my confidence sags
You've got me packing my bags
I'll stow away at sea
Yeah, you make me mutiny
Where you are I won't be
You're going to be the death of me, yeah
Uh huh...
Oh huh...
Oh huh...
Soul survivor - oh huh
Soul survivor
Soul survivor
Soul survivor
You're going to be the death of me
That's what I said - sour survi...
That's what I'm talking about
Oh, that's what I tell you, uh huh
That's what I'm talking
Soul survivor
Soul survivor - uh huh
Soul survivor
I'm the soul survivor, uh huh
Soul survivor - back to the water
Soul survivor - (...)
Soul survivor - oh huh
Soul survivor
TrackTalk
I don't think (I wrote it about Keith). No, that's not about Keith at all. Soul Survivor? I don't even know if I wrote that. It sounds like one of Keith's.
- Mick Jagger, 2009
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