Featured Unknown/Underrated Song: "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones

This gem comes from the Let It Bleed album by the Rolling Stones in 1969.  The studio version was never released as a single, although a live version was released several decades later.  Neither version ever made the Top 10, qualifying this song as one of the great Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era*...

Gimme Shelter

Rolling Stones

Words and Music By Mick Jagger and Keith Richards


Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!

It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away

It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter

Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away