Lead Vocals: Mick Jagger Electric Guitars: Jimmy Page (Lead), Keith Richards, Ron Wood Acoustic Guitar: Ron Wood Bass: Bill Wyman Drums: Charlie Watts Keyboards: Chuck Leavell Background Vocals: Keith Richards, Bobby Womack, Don Covay, Patti Scialfa, Kirsty MacColl, Beverly D'Angelo
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You fell out of the clear blue sky To the darkness below The smell of your flesh excites me My blood starts to flow So help me God
You burst in in a blaze of light You unzippered the dark One kiss took my breath away One look lights up the stars And it's it's one hit to the body It comes straight from the heart One hit to the body Sure went straight to the mark So help me God
It's one shot when you love me One shot when you leave me I don't need no security I just need some peace And it's one hit to the body It comes straight from the heart One voice calls out my name It sure went straight to the mark
One punch and you knocked me down Tore my defenses apart One round took me out of the game You did me some permanent harm It took just one hit It took just one hit It ain't enough for me It ain't enough for me It ain't enough for me It's hurting me baby
Oh your love is a sweet addiction I can't clean you out of my veins It's a life long addiction That has damaged my brain It took just one hit to the body To tear my defenses apart One hit to the body Sure went straight to the mark One hit to the body And it comes straight from the heart One hit to the body To the body, to the body Come straight from the heart
One hit to the body And it comes straight from the heart
One hit to the body And it comes straight from the heart That's all it took, that's all it took So help me so help me so help me God So help me so help me so help me God
One hit to the body And it comes straight from the heart One hit to the body And it comes straight from the heart
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Woody went out and played acoustic on the basic track. He was trying to come up with an electric guitar part, and it wasn't grooving enough, so he went out and started banging on the acoustic. Woody's really great at coming up with ideas like that. - Dave Jerden, engineer
One Hit to the Body starts with Woody on acoustic guitar, Keith's 1967 (Martin) D-18. That sitarish drone during the verse is the National resophonic guitar. - Alan Rogan, guitar technician
I was one acoustic (guitar), Ronnie was another, and then there's the 2 or 3 different electrics all coming in different places. I never, or I very rarely, use an overdub all the way through. I might do 3 different overdubs and 2 of them might be the same thing. - Keith Richards, 1989
(Jimmy Page) rang me at the studio one night and said, How's it going? Do you mind if I come and hear how the album's going? I said, no, I didn't mind. He's a very shy guy. After he'd done that overdub on One Hit, he left the studio saying, I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. I said, Don't apologize... you did all right! - Ron Wood, 1986