The Rolling Stones Songs - You Gotta Move Lyrics

The Rolling Stones - You Gotta Move

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Album: Sticky Fingers
Released: 1971

You Gotta Move Lyrics

You gotta to move
You gotta to move
You gotta to move, child
You gotta to move
Oh, when the Lord get ready
You gotta to move

You may be high
You may be low
You may be rich, child
You may be poor
But when the Lord get ready
You gotta to move

You see that woman
Who walks the street
You see that police
Upon his beat
But then the Lord get ready
You gotta to move

You Gotta Move

Writer/s: FRED MCDOWELL, REVEREND GARY DAVIS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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This was written and originally performed by Mississippi bluesman Fred McDowell. McDowell was active in the 1920s and '30s as both a musician and a farmer. He remained fairly obscure until the '60s, when blues and folk historians raised his profile. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was the first song The Stones recorded for Sticky Fingers. They did it over three days in 1969 at studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" were also recorded over these three days.

Before recording this, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had been performing it as a duet.

The Stones played this at their live shows throughout the '70s.

This was the Stones third straight album with one blues cover. Let It Bleed had "Love In Vain" and Beggars Banquet had "Prodigal Son."

Aerosmith covered this on their album Honkin' On Bobo. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Mick Taylor, 2011: "'You Gotta Move' was this great Mississippi Fred McDowell song that we used to play all the time in the studio. I used a slide on that - on an old 1954 Fender Telecaster - and that was the beginning of that slide thing I tried to develop with the Stones." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)