Troubles A' Comin
Composer: Eugene Record
Original performers: The Chi-Lites
(1970)
Recording
date: January-February
1979 & May-June 2021
Recording locations:
Compass Point Studios, Nassau, The
Bahamas & RAK Studios, London, England
Producers: The Glimmer Twins
Chief engineer:
Chris Kimsey
Performed onstage:
2021

Note: Outtake from
the EMOTIONAL RESCUE sessions
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass:
Bill Wyman
Rhythm
electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood
Lead electric guitar: Ron Wood
Lead
vocal: Mick Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick Jagger
Piano:
Ian Stewart
Organ: Matt Clifford
Woo hoo
I can hear people talking
I can see people walking, yeah
'Cause troubles a' coming in more ways than one - woo hoo
You can take me away from here
Lord I don't have no fear, yeah
'Cause troubles a' coming
Best believe that that ain't all
'Cause troubles a' coming
In more ways than one
Get it together
After giving all I've given
What should I say, Excuse me for living? Yeah
'Cause I'm in a prison and love is the key - woo hoo
Somebody got to get it together
Come on, we got to make it better, yeah
'Cause troubles a' coming
Best believe that that ain't all
Troubles a' coming
I can hear it when it calls - oh yeah
Get it together
Get it together
(Hear the people talking) Hear the people talking
(See the people walking) Oh walking
(Hear the
people talking) Talking all together - yeah
All right
Everybody's so divided
Misled and misguided
Nobody wants to see two points of view - oh no
'Cause we live in a crazy system
Yeah, what they will do with their wisdom, yeah
'Cause troubles a' coming
It ain't going nowhere - mm
'Cause troubles a' coming
In more ways than one
If you get it together, oh yeah
Mm-mm-mm
(Hear the people talking) Yeah
Hear the people talking
(See the people walking) See the
people walking, yeah
(Hear the
people talking) Old man trouble,
old man trouble
(See the
people walking) Stay away from
me now, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Hear the people talking)
Old man
trouble, stay
away from me
now, now yeah
(See the people walking) Old
man... see the
people walking
(Hear the people talking)
(See the people walking)
(Hear the people talking)
TrackTalk
Well,
we did throw (material) away a lot. Some of them – there’s no
top line, no lyrics, they’re in bits and pieces. Some are cover
versions like Troubles A’ Comin. But we never finished
it. It didn’t have proper vocals or finished guitar solos.
- Mick Jagger,
September 2021
The
Chi-Lites song Troubles A' Comin was my idea and we did
it and we threw it out. Because sometimes we would just, in the
studio, we'd just say, Hey, let's do this song just to
warm up. And I realized later that was a very warm track.
- Keith Richards,
October 2021
Troubles
A' Comin was a cover version so that's kind of finished.
It's a song already existing which is great, Yeah, I like
that one, that's gonna work! Because that's a song I
don't have to write the lyrics for (laughs). Then in the end I
had to write some lyrics cause there wasn't enough for my
own... I wrote an extra verse. But then I had to ask (the
copyright holders), I'm sorry, I wrote an extra verse, is
that all right? But that was kind of easy in a way. And
then Ronnie put a guitar solo on it, there wasn't one there.
- Mick Jagger,
September 2021
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