Featured Unknown/Underrated Song: "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones

This was a hit in European countries, but never released as a single in the United States.  Mistake.

 

 

"Sympathy for the Devil"

Rolling Stones

 

Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

 

 

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

 And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

 Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

 I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

 I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

 Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

 I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

 I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me

 Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

 Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

 Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game

 Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer

 Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste

 Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down

 Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!

 Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame

 Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who

 Oh, yeah
What's me name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name

 Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah