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The Rolling Stones Songs - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
The Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow?


The Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
Released: 1966

Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? Lyrics


Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
I'm glad I opened your eyes
The have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice

Have you seen your brother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another baby, standing in the shadow?
Well I was just passing the time
I'm all alone, won't you give all your sympathy to mine?

Tell me a story about how you adore me
Live through the shadow, see through the shadow,
Live through the shadow, tear at the shadow
Hate in the shadow, love in the shadow life

Have you seen your lover, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have they had another baby, standing in the shadow?
Where have you been all your life?
Talking about all the people who would try anything twice

Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Has she had another baby, standing in the shadow?
You take your choice at this time
The brave old world or the slide to the depths of decline

Writer/s: RICHARDS, KEITH / JAGGER, MICK
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? Song Chart
  • Keith Richards: "You must listen to it and place your own interpretation on the lyric. There is no attempt to present a controversial 'Mother' theme." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • The American single had a picture of The Stones in women's clothes on the sleeve. After the photo session, they kept their costumes on and went to a bar in New York.
  • A promotional video was made for this, featuring the Stones in drag. This was one of the first music videos.
  • This was the first Stones song that used a brass section.
  • There is guitar feedback at the beginning and end. The Beatles had used feedback before, but it was still a new technique.
  • Keith Richards: "I liked the track, I hated the mix. Mainly because there was a fantastic mix of the thing, which was just right. But because they were in a rush and they needed to edit it down for the Ed Sullivan Show, the mix was rushed and the essential qualities of it, for me, disappeared. Just because of the lack of time. It needed another couple weeks. The rhythm section is almost lost completely." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • This was the first Stones song released in the US and England at the same time.
  • The B-side of the single was Who's "Driving Your Plane?" Both sides of the single are questions.
  • When The Stones performed this on The Ed Sullivan Show, guitarist Brian Jones wore a cast on his hand. It was rumored that he got the injury when he punched a wall.
  • Glyn Johns, who engineered the "As Tears Go By" session in 1965, engineered this song as well. This led to more work with The Stones, recording the live album Got Live If You Want It! in the fall of 1966 and then engineering the London Between The Buttons sessions in November of that year. He was used as chief engineer for the producer-less Their Satanic Majesties Request in 1967, after which he suggested to the Rolling Stones that they use Jimmy Miller as their next producer. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • Mike Leander arranged the horns. He also did the horns on The Stones "As Tears Go By" and wrote the score for the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)