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/
First recorded November 8, 1964.
It was re-recorded May 10 & 11, 1965 and that second version was released on "Out Of Our Heads" in 1965.
Shouting: Brian Jones. Guitars: Brian Jones and Keith Richards. Lead & backing vocals: Mick Jagger. Drums: Charlie Watts. Bass: Bill Wyman.

MERCY MERCY
(Don Covay and Ronald Dean Miller)

have mercy, have mercy baby
have mercy, have mercy on me

well I went to see a gypsy
and had my fortune read
she said "Man, your baby gonna leave you now
her bags are packed up under the bed"
I said

have mercy, have mercy baby
have mercy, have mercy on me

I said if you leave me baby
girl if you put me down
I'm gonna get to the nearest river child
and jump overboard and drown

I said
have mercy, have mercy baby
Have mercy, have mercy on me

I said hey hey baby, hey hey now
what you trying to do
hey hey baby, hey hey now
please don't say we're through

I said if you stay baby
I tell you what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna work two jobs, seven days a week
and bring my money home to you

I said
have mercy, have mercy baby
Have mercy, have mercy on me

o, please, have some
have mercy, have mercy, darling/baby
have mercy, have mercy on me

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