Sweet
Black Angel
Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: October 1970 & December 1971-March 1972
Recording locations: Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Mick Jagger's home, Newbury, England; Olympic
Sound Studios, London, England
& Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Jimmy
Miller Chief
engineers: Glyn
Johns, Andy Johns & Joe
Zagarino
Performed onstage: 1972

Probable line-up:
Acoustic guitars: Keith
Richards & Mick Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Harmony vocal: Keith
Richards
Harmonica: Mick
Jagger
Marimbas: Richard
Didymus
Washington
Percussion (guiro, claves): Jimmy
Miller & Charlie Watts
Got a sweet black angel, got a pin up girl
Got a sweet black angel up upon my wall
Well she ain't no singer and she ain't no
star
But she sure talk good and she move so fast
But the gal in danger, yeah the gal in chains
But she keep on pushing, would you take her
place?
She counting up the minutes, she counting
up the days
She's a sweet black angel, whoa, not a sweet black
slave
Ten little niggers sitting on the wall
Her brothers been falling, falling one by
one
For a judge's murder in a judge's court
Now the judge he going to judge her for all
that he's worth
Well the gal in danger, oh the gal in chains
But she keep on pushing, would you do the
same?
She counting up the minutes, she counting
up the days
She's a sweet black angel
Not a gun toting
teacher
Not a Red-loving school ma
Ain't someone
going to free her?
Free the sweet black slave
Free the sweet black slave
Free the sweet black slave
Free the sweet black slave
TrackTalk
That was done all of them in a room in a circle
at the same time, because there was this one room away from the main hall
that had no furniture in it, with a wooden floor, quite high ceilings and
plaster walls. We wanted to get the sound of the room.
-
Andy Johns, engineer
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