AS TEARS GO BY
Words and music by Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, & Andrew Loog Oldham
As recorded by The Rolling Stones on "December's Children (And Everybody's)", 1965.

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.

My riches can't buy ev'rything.
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.

It is the evening of the day.
I sit and watch the children play,
Doin' things I used to do, they think are new.
I sit and watch as tears go by.