Released: December 4, 1965
Songwriter: Andrew Loog Oldham Keith Richards Mick Jagger
Producer: Andrew Loog Oldham
[Chorus]
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me
I sit and watch
As tears go by
[Verse]
My riches can't buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by
[Chorus]
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doing things I used to do
They think are new
I sit and watch
As tears go by
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me
I sit and watch
As tears go by
[Verse]
My riches can't buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by
[Chorus]
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doing things I used to do
They think are new
I sit and watch
As tears go by
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- Memo from Turner
- Gotta Get Away
- I’m Free
- The Singer Not the Song
- Surprise, Surprise
- No Expectations
- The Lantern
- In Another Land
- Out of Time
- Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
- Off the Hook
- What a Shame
- Heart of Stone
- Try a Little Harder
- I Don’t Know Why
- Jiving Sister Fanny
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- We Love You
- Who’s Driving Your Plane?
- Come On
- Stoned
- Child of the Moon
- Little Red Rooster
- Long Long While
- Sad Day
- I want to be loved
- Dandelion
- Not Fade Away
- The Spider and the Fly
- Lady Jane
- Ruby Tuesday
- Play with Fire
- Brown Sugar
- Let’s Spend the Night Together
- As Tears Go By
- 2000 Light Years from Home
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- Mother’s Little Helper
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Paint It, Black
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash
- She’s a Rainbow
- Honky Tonk Women
- The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
- The Last Time
- Congratulations
- It’s All Over Now
- Good Times, Bad Times
- Time Is on My Side
- Tell Me
- Little by Little
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- Street Fighting Man
- Get Off of My Cloud
- Stupid Girl
- Wild Horses
- December’s Children (And Everybody’s) (1965)
- Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (1971)
- Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975)
- Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)
- Singles 1965-1967 (2004)
- Shine a Light (2008)
- 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