 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL / Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones), 1968

1/ Before listening: can you match the historical events to the dates?

33   The death of hippies on the road to

India 
1337-1453   The Second World War and the
Holocaust 
1776   The Russian Revolution 

1789   The assassination of President John

Fitzgerald Kennedy 
1917   The Hundred Years’ War 

1939-1945   The Crucifixion of Christ 

1963   The French Revolution 

1970s   The American Declaration of

Independence 

2/ Listen and tick the events mentioned

 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL / Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones), 1968

1/ Before listening: can you match the historical events to the dates?

33   The death of hippies on the road to

India 
1337-1453   The Second World War and the
Holocaust 
1776   The Russian Revolution 

1789   The assassination of President John

Fitzgerald Kennedy 
1917   The Hundred Years’ War 

1939-1945   The Crucifixion of Christ 

1963   The French Revolution 

1970s   The American Declaration of

Independence 

2/ Listen and tick the events mentioned

3/  Read the lyrics and fill in the blanks 6. Let me please introduce myself
with the rights verbs (in the preterit tense)
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
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who _____________16 killed before
they reached Bombay
CHORUS

1. And I _____________1 round when Jesus Christ Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
_____________2 his moment of doubt and pain As heads is tails
Made damn sure that pilate Just call me Lucifer
_____________3 his hands and sealed his fate Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
CHORUS Have some courtesy
a. Pleased ……………………………………… Have some sympathy, and some taste
b. Hope you guess …………………………… Use all your well-learned politesse
c. But what's puzzling ………………………… Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
d. Is the nature of ……………………………..
CHORUS
2. I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I _____________4 it was a time for a Verbs:
change To fight – to make
_____________5 the czar and his ministers To ride – to be (X2)
Anastasia _____________6 in vain to kill (x2) – to stink
To see – to watch
3. I _____________7 a tank to get – to wash
Held a generals rank to have – to scream
When the blitzkrieg _____________8 to shout – to rage
And the bodies _____________9
4/ Listen and check
CHORUS
5/ Who is the narrator in this song?
4. I _____________10 with glee Can you “guess his name”?
While your kings and queens
_____________11 for ten decades > He’s ……………………………….
For the gods they _____________12
6/ Now you can sing! 
5. I _____________13 out,
Who _____________14 the kennedys?
When after all
It _____________15 you and me