Released: September 23, 1966
Songwriter: Keith Richards Mick Jagger
Producer: Andrew Loog Oldham
[Chorus]
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 1]
I'm glad I opened your eyes
The have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice
[Chorus]
Have you seen your brother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 2]
Well, I was just passing the time
I'm all alone, won't you give all your sympathy to mine?
[Bridge]
Tell me a story about how you adore me
Live in the shadow, see through the shadow
Glimpse through the shadow, tear at the shadow
Hate in the shadow, and love in your shadowy life
[Chorus]
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Has he had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 3]
Just where have you been all your life?
Talking about all the people who would try anything twice
[Chorus]
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Has she had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 4]
Well, you take your choice at the time
The brave old world or the slide to the depths of decline
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 1]
I'm glad I opened your eyes
The have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice
[Chorus]
Have you seen your brother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Have you had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 2]
Well, I was just passing the time
I'm all alone, won't you give all your sympathy to mine?
[Bridge]
Tell me a story about how you adore me
Live in the shadow, see through the shadow
Glimpse through the shadow, tear at the shadow
Hate in the shadow, and love in your shadowy life
[Chorus]
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Has he had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 3]
Just where have you been all your life?
Talking about all the people who would try anything twice
[Chorus]
Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow?
Has she had another, baby, standing in the shadow?
[Verse 4]
Well, you take your choice at the time
The brave old world or the slide to the depths of decline
Forty Licks
- Wild Horses
- Shattered
- Fool to Cry
- Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
- The Last Time
- It’s All Over Now
- Street Fighting Man
- Get Off of My Cloud
- Honky Tonk Women
- Emotional Rescue
- Undercover (Of the Night)
- Losing My Touch
- Stealing My Heart
- Keys to Your Love
- Don’t Stop
- Not Fade Away
- You Got Me Rocking
- Love Is Strong
- Mixed Emotions
- She’s a Rainbow
- Under My Thumb
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Happy
- Tumbling Dice
- Gimme Shelter
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Start Me Up
- Paint It, Black
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Mother’s Little Helper
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Anybody Seen My Baby
- Angie
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- Miss You
- Ruby Tuesday
- Brown Sugar
- Let’s Spend the Night Together
- It’s Only Rock’n’Roll (But I Like It)
- Beast of Burden
- Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966)
- Flowers (1967)
- Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969)
- More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) (1972)
- Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975)
- Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)
- Forty Licks (2002)
- Singles 1965-1967 (2004)
- GRRR! (2012)
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Paint It, Black
- Gimme Shelter
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Wild Horses
- Brown Sugar
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Beast of Burden
- She’s a Rainbow
- Miss You
- Angie
- Honky Tonk Women
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- Start Me Up
- Under My Thumb
- Ruby Tuesday
- Dead Flowers
- Sweet Virginia
- Tumbling Dice
- Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
- Street Fighting Man
- Let It Bleed
- Bitch
- Mother’s Little Helper