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Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

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Post by Reb Sun 29 Nov 2015 - 18:12

I had been listening to some Rolling Stones recently and rediscovered Gimme Shelter. There is a point in the song where the Merry Clayton is singing so powerfully that her voice is breaking and it is a fantastic part of the song. It happens when she is singing the lyrics "Rape, Murder, Its just a shot away". After she sings "murder" the final time and her voice breaks you can faintly here Mick Jagger in the background saying "WOO!"

Here are the lyrics. I have put bold around the words where Merry Clayton's voice breaks:

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost it's way

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder! (here is where you hear the woo my Jagger)
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away

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