Stray
Cat Blues
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: April-May
1968 Recording
location: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
Producers: Jimmy
Miller
Chief engineers: Eddie
Kramer & Glyn Johns
Performed onstage: 1969-71,
1973, 1976, 2002-03

Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars:
Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Mellotron: Brian
Jones
Congas: Rocky
Dijon
Ah... hey
Yeah, cat's own tail
I hear the click-clack of your feet on the
stairs
I know you're no scared-eyed honey
There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime
I can see that you're 15 years old
No I don't want your I.D.
And I can see that you're so far from home
But that's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don't you scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
I bet, bet your mama don't know you scream like
that
I bet your mama don't know you can spit like
that
You look so (...) and so far from home
But you don't really miss your mother
Don't look so scared, I'm not no mad-brained
bear
But, but it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime
Oh yeah.... ooh
I bet your mama don't know that you scratch
like that
I bet she don't know you can bite like that
You say you've got a friend, that she's wilder
than you
Why don't you bring her upstairs?
If she's so wild, then she can join in too
It's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don't you scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
I bet your mama don't know you can bite like
that
I bet she never saw you scratch my back
TrackTalk
I mean, even WE'VE been influenced by the Velvet
Underground... I'll tell you exactly what we pinched from (Lou Reed)
too. You know Stray Cat Blues? The whole sound and the way it's
paced, we pinched from the very first Velvet Underground album. You know,
the sound on Heroin. Honest to God, we did!
-
Mick Jagger, 1977
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