Track Talk: Can I Get A Witness
Date: April 6, 2009 11:32
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Can I Get A Witness
(Brian Holland / Lamont Dozier / Eddie Holland)
Regent Sound Studios, London, UK, February 4, 1964
Mick Jagger - lead vocals, backing vocals
Keith Richards - acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass, backing vocals
Brian Jones - tambourine, backing vocals
Ian Stewart - piano
Listen everybody, body, especially you girls, girls
It's not right to be left alone, when the one you love is never home
I loved to hard, my friends sometime say, but I believe, I believe
That a woman should be loved that way, but it hurts me so inside
To see you treat me so unkind, somebody, somewhere, tell her it ain't fair
Can I get a witness, can I get a witness, I want a witness, can I get a witness
I want a witness, can I get a witness, somebody, can I get a witness
Is it right to be treated so bad, when you give it everything you had
If I talk in my sleep, ‘cuz I haven't seen my baby all week
Now you chicks, you all agree, this ain't the way it's supposed to be
Let me hear you, let me hear you say: yeah, yeah
Up early in the morning, well they're all in my mind, just to find her out all night
Well, I've been crying, but I believe, a women's a man's best friend
I'm gonna stick by her, 'till the very end, well, she caused me so much misery
I forget how it's supposed to be, somebody, somewhere, tell her it ain't fair
Can I get a witness, can I get a witness, can I get a witness, I want a witness
Can I get a witness, witness, witness, can I get a witness, witness, witness
Can I get a witness, everybody knows, especially you girls, that a love can be sad
But half a love is twice as bad, now you chicks you all agree
That ain't the way love's supposed to be, let me hear ya, let me hear you say:
Yeah, yeah, I want a witness, can I get a witness, I want a witness, can I get a witness
Yeah, I want a witness, I want a witness, somebody, can I get a witness
Is it right to be treated so bad, when you give it everything you had
If I talk, in my sleep, 'cuz I haven't seen my baby all week
Yeah, she caused me so much misery, that ain't the way it's supposed to be
Let me hear ya, let me hear you say: yeah, yeah
I want a witness, can I get a witness, I want a witness, can I get a witness
I wanna be, can I get a witness, I want a witness, can I get a witness
Witness, witness, I want a witness
Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “The Rolling Stones” LP
(Decca LK 4605) UK, April 16, 1964