Tumbling Dice

Album: Exile on Main St. (1972)
Charted: 5 7
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  • Mmm yeah! (Woo, woo)
    Women think I'm tasty, but they're always tryin' to waste me
    Make me burn the candle right down
    But, baby, baby, don't need no jewels in my crown

    'Cause all you women is low down gamblers
    Cheatin' like I don't know how
    Baby, got no flavor, fever in the funk house now
    This low down bitchin' got my poor feet a itchin'
    Don't you know you know the duece is still wild

    Baby, I can't stay, you got to roll me
    And call me the tumblin' dice
    Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry
    Don't you see the time flashin' by

    Honey, got no money
    I'm all sixes and sevens and nines
    Say now baby, I'm the rank outsider
    You can be my partner in crime

    Baby, I can't stay
    You got to roll me and call me the tumblin'
    Roll me and call me the tumblin' dice
    Now baby

    Oh my, my, my, I'm the lone crap shooter
    Playin' the field ev'ry night
    Baby, I can't stay
    You got to roll me and call me the tumblin' dice (Call me the tumblin')
    Got to roll me (ya yes), got to roll me, got to roll me (Oh yeah)

    Got to roll me
    Got to roll me (yeah)
    Got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
    Got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
    Got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
    Got to roll me

    Call me the tumblin' dice, yeah
    Got to roll me
    Got to roll me
    Baby sweet as sugar (Got to roll me)
    Yeah, my, my, my yeah (Got to roll me)
    Now now now now (Got to roll me)
    I went down baby, oh
    Got to roll me (hit me)
    Baby I'm down Writer/s: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 14

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 21st 1978, The Rolling Stones appeared in concert at the Community Center in Tucson, Arizona...
    The fourteenth song in their set was their 1972 #7* hit "Tumbling Dice"...
    Linda Ronstadt joined them onstage during the performance of the song; one month earlier on June 10th her covered version of the song was at #93 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and that was its last day on the chart...
    Her version entered the Top 100 on April 16th at #70; five weeks later on May 21st it would peak would peak at #32 {for 2 weeks} and it stayed on the Top 100 for 8 weeks...
    * Interestingly, both versions peaked on the same day in May; the Stones at #7 on May 21st, 1972 and Linda's at #32 on May 21st, 1978.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 23rd, 1972, "Tumbling Dice" by the Rolling Stones entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #50; and on May 21st it peaked at #7 (for 2 weeks) and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...
    It was track 5 of side 1 on the group's double album, 'Exile on Main Street', and on June 11th, 1972 the album reached #1 (for 4 weeks) on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
    One other track from the album also made the Top 100 chart, "Happy", it peaked at #22 (for 1 week) on August 13th, 1972...
    As already stated; Linda Ronstadt covered "Tumbling Dice", her version reached #32 (for 2 weeks) on May 21st, 1978...
    May God bless and watch over Ms. Ronstadt.
  • Jim from New York, NyVery good Stones song and I understand it to be one of Keith's favorites. Exile was both a brilliant and terrible record. Listening to Sweet Virginia is mind blowing, then try and listen to Just want to see his face
  • Ed from Lake City, FlExile is the best album the stones ever did, of course i knew that the day it came out and i bought it. been diggin on it ever since, not a bad song on it, just like abbey road
  • Justin from Singapore, SingaporeMessy is the word I'd use to describe Exile. Messy and mind-blowingly awesome! In Sticky Fingers and Exile, I think the Stones were at their musical best.
  • Craig from Melbourne, AustraliaFantastic song from the greatest album in rock history. Rolling Stone magazine bagged it when it came out, then did something unheard of. Some time later Exile was reviewed again to unheralded praise. It is an album that requires listening from start to finish. It is the perfect album. No one can ever hope to come close to matching the authority of Exile on Main St.
  • Bubba Zanetti from Austin, TxExile is one of the best Rock/Blues albums of all time. Played by a bunch of crackers stealing the brothers' music, but still, hands down in the top three.
  • Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScExile is a great album. I'm glad people like it now, but it's too bad people didn't like it when it sas released.
  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaMike did say something right. Great instrumental track.
  • Bill from Erie, PaMike from Berkeley: No. You're wrong. Simple as that.
    I've seen the Stones perform this in concert three time, and it's my favorite song of theirs.
  • Ken from Louisville, KyLinda Ronstadt's cover version specifically had her articulate they lyrics because on the Stone's version you couldn't understand them. Stones fans were upset becuase they thought that was what made the song great - trying to guess the lyrics!

  • Dave from London , Canada"Tumblin' came out of Nellcote, Keith's villa in the south of France, and reflects the bands trips to the nearby gambling casinos of Monte Carlo in their downtime.
  • Mike from Berkeley, CaAnother dumb commercial song with a great instrumental track. People wonder why Jagger's lyrics are hard to make out sometimes, but I know why: THEY'RE DUMB!!!
  • Dean from Danbury, CtGreat song....live version from Atlantic City DVD is awesome.......
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