Album: Black And Blue (1976)

Charted: 6 10

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• When I come home baby
  And I've been working all night long
  I put my daughter on my knee, and she says
  Daddy what's wrong?
  She whispers in my ear so sweet
  You know what she says, she says
  Ooh, daddy you're a fool to cry
  You're a fool to cry
  And it makes me wonder why
  
  Daddy you're a fool
  You know, I got a woman (daddy you're a fool)
  And she lives in the poor part of town
  And I go see her sometimes
  And we make love, so fine
  I put my head on her shoulder
  She says, tell me all your troubles
  You know what she says?
  She says, ooh, daddy you're a fool to cry
  You're a fool to cry
  And it makes me wonder why
  
  Daddy you're a fool to cry
  Yeah, she says
  Oh, Daddy you're a fool to cry
  You're a fool to cry
  And it makes me wonder why
  
  She says, ooh, daddy you're a fool to cry
  Ooh, daddy you're a fool to cry
  Ooh, daddy you're a fool to cry
  Ooh, daddy you're a fool to cry
  
  Even my friends say to me sometimes
  And make out like I don't understand them
  You know what they say?
  They say, ooh daddy you're a fool to cry
  You're a fool to cry
  And it makes me wonder why, ah
  
  I'm a fool baby, ah ya
  I'm a certified fool, ah yeah
  Gotta tell ya, baby
  I'm a fool baby, ah yeah
  Whoo
  Certified fool for ya, mama, ya, yeah, come on, yeah
  I'm a fool, yeah Writer/s: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 10

• Frank B. from Orangeville, OntarioI always cry to sad songs like this! Always have, and always will.
• Jojo from New Zealand My favourite Rolling Stones' song of all time. It reminds me of when I was 16.
• Snooker from CanadaThis was Brian Wilson's favorite Stones track.
• Markantney from BiloxeSep 16,
  
  I heard this many years later after it was hit, guessing in the 90s? It's their most underrated song, an alltime underrated song, for I never hear it referenced as a Stones hit/great song. and Mick's "Riffing" at the end of the song; would make any Bluesman Proud.
  
  It's the one song I play if I'm taking a long drive, when I feel myself getting tired/sleepy; you play this song, you will listen and sing a-long.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 18th 1976, "Fool To Cry" by the Rolling Stones entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #63; and on May 30th it peaked at #10 (for 2 weeks) and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
  Between 1964 and 1989 the Stones had twenty-two records make the Billboard Top 10 list; but this record is their only one to peak at #10...
  Sadly, three of the boys are in their 70s, and come next January I will join them!
• William from Pheonix, AzIts a slow kinda depressing song...but in the end its pretty awsome song
• Robert from Queens, NyMiss you was written two years after this song.
  
  This doesn't have a disco theme to it, at all.
• Morgan from Summerland, CanadaThis is such a good song...not typical stones tunes..but awsome
• Homero from Monterrey , MexicoThis was one of the Disco Music style songs. Remember Miss You ??
• Mr. Chimp from Brno, Czech RepublicMick Jagger played the electric piano on this.

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