Always liked the live version from Leeds, March 1971, because of Jagger's laidback singing.

Exactly. Those last notes are surely MT.

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When singing this number, I prefer to sing the second verse as "... in your long black Cadillac ...". Now I am pretty sure that I heard Mick singing it in exactly these words some time during the VL tour. Then I checked the Stripped (Paradiso 95) version, where I only hear it as "... in your long pink Cadillac ...". But I can't find any example for my version of "... long black Cadillac ...".

Can anyone please help and confirm this long black Cadillac-version of the lyrics?

is there an expert out there to help please



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my no.1 stones-song (beside 251 others)

under the boardwalk---down by the sea

What;s wrong with song 252 Havo

that was "pretty beat up"--Nicos---not my fav.

under the boardwalk---down by the sea

Clearly a classic - amazing how many alt country / Americana players have covered. My personal preference would have been a more raw, electrified, charged up version of this, which would have been less straight, but more stonsey - maybe like the treatment of Country Honk morphing into HTW.

Yet another Stones classic from Sticky Fingers. So gentle and uplifting amidst all the darkness on that album. Like a cool glass of water before the heartbreaking ride down the moonlight mile. Amazing how easily it flows, and how fresh it sounds even today.

If you listen to this and you don't have the urge to sing along, please go see a psychiatrist. Thanks.

Drew

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......just one of those timeless songs that will forever sound great. One of their best.

Yep. Should have played it more often. As simple as it is poweeful. One of the best lyrics of Mick. Marquee vesrsion is on top.

yeah, sweet-sounding, but it's a rather bitter song too... unhappy, even morbid lyrics.

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Intressting song to play. You strum and strum and strum and nothings happened before you comes to the refrain...2 chords song all about Jaggers voice...

I've always thought it would have been lifted by giving it the 'HTW' treatment - (meaning rock it up with some of Keith's signature electric raunch, rather than the simple acoustic backing).I can hear it with a kicking electric rhythm and double-stop riffs coming in on the choruses pumping it along - the straight country treatment sounds weak in the context of the rest of SF

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>> is "dead flowers" an official expression <<

"dead flowers" is the normal term for ... well, for dead flowers -
cut flowers that have dried out / given up / left the building

this one always sounds wonderful in the Stones' fine hands

Also a drugs reference, no?
Dead flowers = heroin.

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When singing this number, I prefer to sing the second verse as "... in your long black Cadillac ...". Now I am pretty sure that I heard Mick singing it in exactly these words some time during the VL tour. Then I checked the Stripped (Paradiso 95) version, where I only hear it as "... in your long pink Cadillac ...". But I can't find any example for my version of "... long black Cadillac ...".

Can anyone please help and confirm this long black Cadillac-version of the lyrics?

is there an expert out there to help please

First I've read/heard of such a thing. Perhaps nobody knows because Jagger never did it? Hence why no example can be found? It would seem to me that if he changed it from pink to black that it would have some kind of effect on the lyric matter, that the pink Cadillac has some kind of certain...something. Black Cadillac wouldn't work.

Great song, uplifting and depressing at the same time.