Sway (The Rolling Stones song)

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Song by The Rolling Stones
from the album Sticky Fingers
Released April 23, 1971
Recorded October 1970
Genre Rock
Length 3m:51s
Label Rolling Stones/Virgin
Writer(s) Jagger-Richards
Producer(s) Jimmy Miller
Sticky Fingers track listing
"Brown Sugar"
(1)
""Sway""
(2)
"Wild Horses"
(3)

"Sway" is a song by the English rock 'n roll band The Rolling Stones form their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Sway" was the first song recorded by the band at Stargroves. It is a slower blues song, thought by many to allude to the deaths of friends and companions from the rock and roll lifestlye. Although the song is credited to Jagger/Richards, Mick Taylor has always stated that he wrote this song together with Mick Jagger, as well as Moonlight Mile from the same album.

   
“
Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground for all my friends out on the burial ground. Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down. It's just that demon life has got me in its sway.
   
”

The song features a Mick Taylor bottle neck slide solo and a regular outro solo. The strings on the piece were arranged by Paul Buckmaster, who also worked on other songs from Sticky Fingers.

It was performed to much surprise on the United Kingdom leg of the band's A Bigger Bang Tour in August 2006.