Low Down

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: March-July 1997
Recording location: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don Was & The Glimmer Twins       Chief engineers: Rob Fraboni & Dan Bosworth
Mixer: Tom Lord-Alge          Performed onstage: 1998

Line-up:
 
Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Blondie Chaplin
Electric guitars: Keith Richards, Ron Wood & Waddy Wachtel
Slide electric guitar: Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Keith Richards, Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin
Saxophone: Joe Sublett
Trumpet: Darrell Leonard
Shaker: Jim Keltner
Maracas: Blondie Chaplin 

Won't you give me the low down just as quick as you can?
Baby, I've been out of touch, just give me the scam
Don't give me the sports page, baby, no political news
Don't you give me the gossip, mm just give me the truth
Just between me and you

Give me the low down if you can
I don't want a show down   (I don't want a show down)
I just want to know where I stand

Don't read me the horoscope, baby, that ain't what I need
Our future will never last but that's between you and me
I don't want the movie section, I'll see for myself
I don't want the news that fits, shove it back on the shelf

Give me the truth
Just between me and you

Give me the low down if you can   (Give me the low down)
I don't want a show down   (I don't want a show down)
I just want to know where I stand

The headlines are screaming, they change every day
As long as I ain't in them, I'm happy that way
I know that you won't lie to me but you hold back the truth
Please give me the low down, I can only get it from you

Ah give me the truth
Just between me and you

Give me the low down if you can   (Give me the low down)
I don't want a show down   (I don't want a show down)
I just want to know where I stand

Give, give, give, give me the low down as quick as you can   (Give me the low down)  (Whoo, whoo - whoo, whoo)
I don't want to hear about it, I want it straight from you   (Whoo, whoo - whoo, whoo)  (Just between me and you)
Give me the low down   (Whoo, whoo - whoo, whoo)  (Just between, just between me and you)
Come on, baby, give me the juice   (Whoo, whoo - whoo, whoo)  (Just between, just between me and you)
Come on, oh yeah   (Whoo, whoo - whoo, whoo)  (Just between, just between me and you)
 


TrackTalk

(When we wrote it), I started playing drums in the studio and Keith playing guitar... It was only Keith and me. So I am playing the drums and he is playing guitar. It was quite fun.

- Mick Jagger, 1997


Low Down is the first song that Mick and I wrote specifically for Bridges To Babylon.

- Keith Richards, 1998



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