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Beast Of Burden (M. Jagger/K. Richards)
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I'll never be your beast of burden My back is broad but it's a hurting
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All I want is for you to make love to me
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I'll never be your beast of burden I've walked for miles my feet are hurting
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All I want is for you to make love to me
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Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough I'm not too blind to see
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I'll never be your beast of burden So let's go home and draw the curtains
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Music on the radio Come on baby make sweet love to me
A E A E B
Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough I'm not too blind to see
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Oh little sister Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, girl
E B C#m A
You're a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl
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Pretty, pretty Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl
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Come on baby please, please, please
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I'll tell ya You can put me out On the street Put me out With no shoes on my feet
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But, put me out, put me out Put me out of misery
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Yeah, all your sickness I can suck it up Throw it all at me I can shrug it off
E B C#m A E B
There's one thing baby That I don't understand You keep on telling me
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I ain't your kind of man
A E A E B
Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough in love enough oh please
E B C#m A E B C#m A
I'll never be your beast of burden I'll never be your beast of burden
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Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beast_of_Burden_(song)
Beast of Burden (song) – Wikipedia
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“Beast of Burden”
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Cover of the 1978 US single
Single by The Rolling Stones
from the album Some Girls
B-side “When the Whip Comes Down”
Released September 1978
Format 7″
Recorded
10 October–21 December 1977
Pathé Marconi Studios
Genre
Blues rock
rock and roll
soul[1]
Length 4:24
Label Rolling Stones
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards
Producer(s) The Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
“Miss You”
(1978) “Beast of Burden”
(1978) “Respectable”
(1978)
Some Girls track listing
show
10 tracks
“Beast of Burden” is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on the 1978 album Some Girls. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song No. 435 on their list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” and No. 433 on the 500 Greatest Rock and Roll Songs of All Time.
Background[edit]
A “beast of burden” is an animal, usually domesticated, that labors for the benefit of man, such as an ox or horse. The music and some lyrics were primarily written by Keith Richards. In the liner notes to the 1993 compilation disc Jump Back, Richards said Beast of Burden “was another one where Mick (Jagger) just filled in the verses. With the Stones, you take a long song, play it and see if there are any takers. Sometimes they ignore it, sometimes they grab it and record it. After all the faster numbers of Some Girls, everybody settled down and enjoyed the slow one.”
In those same notes, Jagger says, “Lyrically, this wasn’t particularly heartfelt in a personal way. It’s a soul begging song, an attitude song. It was one of those where you get one melodic lick, break it down and work it up; there are two parts here which are basically the same.” The song can be seen as allegorical, with Richards saying in 2003, “When I returned to the fold after closing down the laboratory [referring to his drug problems throughout the 1970s], I came back into the studio with Mick… to say, ‘Thanks, man, for shouldering the burden’ – that’s why I wrote “Beast of Burden” for him, I realise in retrospect.”
“Beast of Burden” was recorded from October–December 1977. Although basic lyrics were written before the Stones entered the studio, many of the lyrics on the recording were improvised by Jagger to fit with the smooth running guitars of Richards and Ronnie Wood. Characteristically, Richards and Wood trade off rolling, fluid licks. Neither is really playing lead or rhythm guitar; they both slip in and out, one playing high while the other is low. The song is another famed Some Girls song that features each band member playing his respective instrument without any outside performers; both Richards and Wood play acoustic and electric guitars, with Wood performing the solo.[2]
Release and aftermath[edit]
The song was released as the second single off the album. Billboard Magazine praised its “seductive lyrics” and “catchy r&b flavor.”[3] It charted at No. 8 in the US. A live version was recorded during their 1981 American Tour and was released as a B-side to “Going to a Go-Go”, as well as being reissued on Rarities 1971-2003 in 2005. Another live version was recorded during their 2002-2003 Licks Tour which was released on Live Licks. The single edit of “Beast of Burden” was included on the compilation albums Sucking in the Seventies, Rewind (1971–1984), Jump Back, Forty Licks and GRRR! A 5:20 version of the song with extra lyrics circulates among collectors.[4] It was taken from the eight-track mix of Some Girls, which features significant differences from all other versions of the album.
Charts[edit]
Chart (1978) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 8
US Cash Box 7
Bette Midler version[edit]
“Beast of Burden”
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Single by Bette Midler
from the album No Frills
B-side “Come Back, Jimmy Dean”
Released February 10, 1984
Format 7″ vinyl
Recorded 1983
Genre Hard rock, new wave
Length 3:48
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards
Producer(s) Chuck Plotkin, Brock Walsh, Danny Goldberg
Bette Midler singles chronology
“My Favourite Waste of Time”
(1983) “‘Beast of Burden'”
(1984) “Under the Boardwalk”
(1988)
In 1984, the song was covered by Bette Midler. Her version, which reached No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100, modified several lines of lyric (for example, changing “Pretty, pretty, girls” to “my little sister is a pretty, pretty girl”). The track appeared on Midler’s No Frills album.
A music video was made for this version that started out with Midler and Mick Jagger talking in her dressing room before she comes out and performs the song with him on stage. As the song ends someone throws a pie at Jagger, and Midler laughs at it until she gets hit with a pie herself. The video ends with a picture of both of them covered in pie in a newspaper with the headline “Just desserts”.
Track listing[edit]
7″ Single
Beast of Burden 3:48
Come Back, Jimmy Dean 3:51
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1984) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 71
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 12
German Singles Chart 15
Dutch Top 40 Singles Chart 10
Belgian Singles Chart[6] 15
Swedish Singles Chart 2
Norwegian Singles Chart 2
New Zealand Singles Chart 4
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1984) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 64
Notes[edit]
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☜ *“BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN”*
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*“SHATTERED”* ☞ 
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☜*“SOME GIRLS”* ☞
*THE ROLLING STONES*
*1978*
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