1 개요
1969년 발표된 롤링 스톤즈의 싱글. Beggars Banquet 앨범에 수록되었다. 믹 재거가 작곡했으며 프랑스의 한 시인에게서 영감을 받아 작곡했다고 한다. 악마를 찬양하는 듯한 내용을 담고 있어 롤링 스톤스의 사탄 숭배설이 퍼지게 만들기도 했지만 믹 재거는 '사탄 숭배가 아니라 인간의 어두운 면에 관한 곡'이라고 말했다. 케네디 암살, 러시아 혁명 등 방대한 내용을 다루고 있는 곡이며 음악성도 뛰어나 차트에 오르지 못했음에도 불구하고 평론가들에게서 좋은 평가를 받은 곡이다. 롤링 스톤 선정 500대 명곡에서 32위에 랭크되었다.
2 가사
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame
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Oh, yeah
What's me name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name
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Oh, yeah