As Tears Go By The Rolling Stones Acoustic Cover w/ 12 string

(c)1964 Words & Music Keith Richards - Mick Jagger
on album "December´s Children (And Everybody´s)
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It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see but not, for me
I sit and watch as tears go by..

My riches can´t buy ev´rything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch as tears go by.. [hum]

All I hear is the sound of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch as tears go by..

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doin´ things I used to do they think, are new
I sit and watch as tears go by
I sit and watch as tears go by
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Guitar tuned down half step
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This was one of the first songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The Stones manager, Andrew Oldham, gave it to a singer he also managed named Marianne Faithfull, who released it in 1964. It was going to be the
B-side of her first single, but the record company decided to make it the A-side and it became her first hit. The Stones recorded it a year later.
Mick Jagger (1995): "I wrote the lyrics, and Keith wrote the melody. It's a very melancholy song for a 21-year-old to write: The evening of the day, watching children play - it's very dumb and naive, but it's got a very sad sort of thing about it, almost like an older person might write. You know, it's like a metaphor for being old: You're watching children playing and realizing you're not a child. It's a relatively mature song considering the rest of the output at the time. And we didn't think of doing it, because the Rolling Stones were a butch Blues group. But Marianne Faithfull's version was already a big, proven hit song... It was one of the first things I ever wrote."

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[1211jo]

very nice cover!!!

[magemynanouki]

sweet! =)

[Sunambra]

Super I'm running out of adjectives for your style love it.

[jsteelman1000]

Hello great singing and playing sounds like the Stones

[practicing4]

I LOVE this song and your cover is amazing!! Fantastic, my friend!!! min :-)

[deeryker]

Im still gonna tell my Momma about you,,,lol

[deeryker]

you are a show off,,,you only pretend to like my stuff,,,you hate me,,you just want me to listen to you,,,Im gonna tell my Mamma

[whalerajm]

Sounds Great! Nice Job!