Lyrics Language: English Song writer/composer(s): Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
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The Rolling StonesSympathy For The Devil Lyrics:
Yeow! Yeow! Yeow!
[Instrumental intro featuring conga drums, yelps and grunts.]
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
I've been around for a long, long year,
Stole many man's soul and faith.
I was 'round when Jesus Christ,
Had His moment of doubt and pain.
Made damn sure that Pilate,
Washed his hands and sealed his fate.
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guess my name.
But what's puzzlin' you,
Is the nature of my game.
Stuck around St. Petersburg,
When I saw it was a time for a change.
Killed the Tsar and his ministers,
Anastasia screamed in vain.
I rode a tank held a general's rank.
When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank.
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guess my name, oh, yeah.
Ah, what's puzzlin' you,
Is the nature of my game, oh, yeah.
[Backup singers begin chanting "Whoo-whoo," to the end of the song:]
I watched with glee while your kings and queens,
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made.
I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all, it was you and me.
Let me please introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
And I laid traps for troubadours,
Who get killed before they reach Bombay.
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guess my name, oh, yeah.
But what's puzzlin' you
Is the nature of my game, oh, yeah,
a-Get down, baby.
[Instrumental break featuring Keith Richards on guitar.]
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guess my name, oh, yeah.
But what's confusin' you,
Is just the nature of my game, mmm, yeah.
Just as every cop is a criminal,
And all the sinners, saints,
As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer.
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint.
So if you meet me have some courtesy,
Have some sympathy and some taste.
Use all your well-learned politesse,
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um, yeah.
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guess my name, mmm, yeah.
But what's puzzlin' you,
Is the nature of my game, mmm, mean it,
Get down.
Whoo, who.
Oh, yeah,
Get on down.
Oh, yeah!
[Short instrumental break featuring
Keith Richards on guitar and the vocal
styings of Mick Jagger.]
Ah, yeah.
Tell me baby, a-what's my name?
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name?
Tell me baby, a-what's my name?
I tell you one time, you're to blame.
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The Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil Lyrics Information:
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
Written by: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.
Produced by: Jimmy Miller
Performed by: The Rolling Stones 11a -1968
Appears on 2 : Beggars Banquet-1968, (Japan)-2006; Through the Past, Darkly
(Big Hits, Vol. 2) (US)-1969, (UK)-1969 (Japan)-2006; Get Yer Ya-Ya's
Out!-1970, (Japan)-2006; Gimme Shelter (Live)-1971 & (Video)-1991; Hot Rocks:
1964-1971 (ABKCO)-1972 3 , (Sound & Vision)-2005 & (Japan)-2006; Rolled
Gold+: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (Decca)-1975 & (Universal)-2007;
Get Stoned-1977; Jumpin' in Germany, Burnin' in Hollywood-1979; Singles
Collection: The London Years (US)-1989, (Japan)-2006; Forty Licks (Virgin
US)-2002, (Collector's Edition)-2002, (European Tour Edition)-2003, (European
Tour Edition Expanded)-2003; Sympathy for the Devil Remixes (EP-US)-2003,
(EP-UK)-2003 & (EP-Germany)-2003; Singles 1968-1971)-2005; Stones in the
Park-2006, (Bonus Tracks)-2006; et al.
1 On this recording, personnel included Nicky Hopkins on piano; Rocky Dijon
on congas; Bill Wyman on maracas. Backing vocals were overdubbed by Marianne
Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and producer Jimmy
Miller. (Wyman and Richards can be seen doing vocals in the film, Sympathy
for the Devil 4 , but this scene was staged especially for the cameras.)
1a Covered by: Anthem, The Attack, Aural Pleasure, Danny Barnes, BB Band,
Sandra Bernhard, Jimmy Carl Black, Dennis "Cannonball" Caplinger, Copper
Snake, Electric Hellfire Club, Bryan Ferry, Freedom Dub, Gangsters of Love,
Ghoul Kats, Guns N'Roses, Inkubus Sukkubus, The Jailbirds, Laibach, The
London Symphony Orchestra, Jimmy Maelen, Ozzy Osbourne, The Rolling Clones,
Johnathan Round, Sandie Shaw, Skrew, Tater Totz, Thrashing Doves, Tiamat,
Widespread Panic, Chris Wilson, et al.
2 The only singles issued for this song were Extended Play (EP) disks of
remixes by various artists in 2003.
3 Transcribed from the track on this album.
4 Here, Sympathy for the Devil, refers to the producer's edit of a 1968 film
by Jean-Luc Godard whose original version is called, One Plus One. The film,
a depiction of the late 1960s, American counterculture, and featured the
Rolling Stones in the process of recording the song in the studio. The Stones
just happened to be recording that song "Sympathy for the Devil," and it
became the track that we used."
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