Torn
and Frayed
Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
December 1971-March 1972 Recording
location: Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles,
USA
Producer: Jimmy
Miller Chief
engineers: Andy
Johns & Joe Zagarino
Performed onstage: 1972,
2002

Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Mick
Taylor
Acoustic guitar: Keith
Richards
Electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Pedal steel guitar: Al
Perkins
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Harmony vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Organ: Jim
Price
Hey, let him follow you down
Way underground, wind and he's bound
Bound to follow you down
Just a dead beat right off the street
Bound to follow you down
Well the ballrooms and smelly bordellos
And dressing rooms filled with parasites
Onstage the band has got problems
They're a bag of nerves on first nights
He ain't tied down to no hometown
Yeah, and you thought he was reckless
You think he's bad, he thinks you're mad
Yeah, and the guitar player gets restless
Well his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away
Steal your heart away
Well his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away
Joe's got a cough, sounds kind of rough
Yeah, and the codeine to fix it
Doctor prescribes, drugstore supplies
Who's going to help him to kick it?
And his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away
Steal your heart away
And his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Just as long as the guitar plays
Just as long as the guitar plays
Just as long as the guitar plays
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