Album: Exile on Main St. (1972)

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• Saw you stretched out in Room ten oh nine
  With a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye
  Whoa, come see to get a line on you, my sweet honey love
  Berber jewelry jangling down the street
  Making bloodshot eyes at every woman that you meet
  Could not seem to get high on you, my sweet honey love
  
  May the good Lord shine a light on you
  Make every song (you sing) your favorite tune
  May the good Lord shine a light on you
  Warm like the evening sun
  
  When you're drunk in the elevator, with your clothes all torn
  When your late night friends leave you in the cold gray dawn
  Just seen too many flies on you, I just can't brush them off
  
  Angels beating all their wings in time
  With smiles on their faces and a gleam right in their eyes
  Whoa, thought I heard one sigh for you
  Come on up, come on up, now, come on up now
  
  May the good Lord shine a light on you, yeah
  Make every song you sing your favorite tune
  May the good Lord shine a light on you, yeah
  Warm like the evening sun
  
  Come on up now, come on up now, come on up now, come on up, come on
  
  May the good Lord shine a light on you
  Make every song you sing your favorite tune
  May the good Lord shine a light on you
  Warm like the evening sun, yeah, yeah Writer/s: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
  Publisher: Abkco Music Inc.
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Comments: 11

• Anonymous from PutziI just need to replay to "Elmo Lewis". Really mate, not only your theory is wrong but is beginning to grate on just about anyone. There was no campaign to out Brian.
  All he had to do was to make an effort but unfortunately he wasn't capable
  Sad but true.
  All the rest is buls--t.
• Elmo LewisIn addition to his drug use (and as a contributor to its genesis), Brian's detachment from the Stones was driven by the deliberate campaign of Andrew Oldham, Mick and Keith to marginalize him as a musical and business contributor to the band beginning in 1964 or so. By the time this song was written in 1968 that campaign had succeeded admirably.
• AnonymousGreat song, great jam, fun times all around
• AnonymousBest song on album,builds up to trademark stones climax,more powerful than Let it be !
• Rosario from Naples, FlLOVE this song. it's not as good as "Let It Be," though.
• Patrick from Greenville, Sc"stripped" version is THE version to me. great song
• Craig from Melbourne, AustraliaA superb song from the best album ever. Every thing about this song is A-1.
  
  Upcoming Martin Scorsese doco on the Stones is called "Shine a light".
  
  Vanetta Fields (back up singer) came to Australia as part of Boz Scaggs band in 1977/8. She loved the place so much she immigrated here. She was long time back up singer for Australia's top selling male artist, John Farnham.
• Lars from Sindelfingen, GermanyIt sounds familiar to Let it be because Billy Preston plays organ on both songs. He made the songs sound special.
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaIs this the song that was compared to "Let it Be"? They sound the same, kind of. This is a great song, worthy of that comparison.
• Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScI like this one. It has a sort of spiritual or Gospel feel to it.
• Joshua from Twin Cities, MnA live acoustic version of this song appears on the Stones' 1995 album "Stripped".
  

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