Edit 1c (1st version) for headphones, December 2020/November 2023. Dubbed video. This is the first version of "Mercy, Mercy", recorded half a year before the officially released version. I call it the sweet version. I like it. Has a short guitar solo in it. Different lyrics too. From the bootleg "2120 South Michigan Avenue" from http://vivales-bootlegs.blogspot.com/<br />First recorded November 8, 1964.<br />It was re-recorded May 10 & 11, 1965 and that second version was released on "Out Of Our Heads" in 1965.<br />Shouting: Brian Jones. Guitars: Brian Jones and Keith Richards. Lead & backing vocals: Mick Jagger. Drums: Charlie Watts. Bass: Bill Wyman.<br /><br />MERCY MERCY <br />(Don Covay and Ronald Dean Miller)<br /><br />have mercy, have mercy baby<br />have mercy, have mercy on me<br /><br />well I went to see a gypsy<br />and had my fortune read<br />she said "Man, your baby gonna leave you now<br />her bags are packed up under the bed" <br />I said<br /><br />have mercy, have mercy baby<br />have mercy, have mercy on me<br /><br />I said if you leave me baby<br />girl if you put me down<br />I'm gonna get to the nearest river child<br />and jump overboard and drown<br /><br />I said<br />have mercy, have mercy baby<br />Have mercy, have mercy on me<br /><br />I said hey hey baby, hey hey now<br />what you trying to do<br />hey hey baby, hey hey now<br />please don't say we're through<br /><br />I said if you stay baby<br />I tell you what I'm gonna do<br />I'm gonna work two jobs, seven days a week<br />and bring my money home to you<br /><br />I said<br />have mercy, have mercy baby<br />Have mercy, have mercy on me<br /><br />o, please, have some<br />have mercy, have mercy, darling/baby<br />have mercy, have mercy on me<br /><br />®© ruudtes rolling stones
