Ride On

Way down, deep dark and funky
Tie me tie me to your bed
Ride on lady I'm your monkey
Yes the organ grinder's gettin' wet
Ride on

Will the last dollar bill
Be dragged from the sand
On another man's land
Another man ridin' on another man's dream

A full car on a boulevard
The main issue
I don't want to miss you
I put you on my list you
I put you on my list you

Way down deep dark and funky
tie me, tie me to your bed
Ride on lady I'm your monkey
Yes the organ grinder's gettin' wet
Ride on

Will the last dollar bill
Be dragged from the sand
On another man's land
Another man ridin' on another man's dream
Sittin' in the doorway, a beggar in the light
Lucky as the strike
It's alright
Just I caught ya playin' with the light

The main issue
Don't wanna miss you
Caught in a brace you
I don't wanna miss you
I put you on my list you
I put you on my list you

A full car on a boulevard
The main issue
I don't wanna miss you
Callin' to bless you
I don't wanna miss you
I put you on my list you
I put you on my list you

Lyrics by:
Squire / Brown

Music by:
Squire / Brown

Written:
1995

Personnel:
John Squire (guitar)
Ian Brown (vocals)
Gary Mounfield (bass)
Alan Wren (drums)

Produced by:
Simon Dawson

Available on:
Ten Storey Love Song single (as b-side) (5.45)

First live performance:
Never performed live

Details:
If you buy Ten Storey Love Song on 7 inch record (as I did), when you play Ride On for the first time, it sounds as if you are playing it at 33 rpm instead of 45 rpm. Ride On is Moses played through a computer at half the speed. When Squire was younger, he persuaded his dad to customize his record player so that he could pick out the guitar parts. This act was the genesis of tracks such as Ride On and Moses:

Squire's industrious father wired up a train set transformer to said LP player allowing with a tilt of the dial, variable voltage. So not only could 45s be played at 33 1/3s, when the guitar parts got a bit tricky 33 1/3s could be played at, ooh, 12 1/5. 'It was so good when I got into Page, Hendrix and Clapton because I could slow everything down and pick out the guitar lines. Very helpful.'
(John Squire speaking to The Guitar Magazine, August 1997)

The riff from Ride On was used by Squire in live performances of Daybreak., and also features on Ian's Can't See Me (the melody of the following verse: "I know mine, mine know me, I can sail upon your sea, I can sail upon your sea so easy"). Ride On is very close to 'The Lemon Song' from 'Led Zeppelin II', in its sexual subject matter.

Tie me, tie me to your bed
Ride on lady I'm your monkey
Yes the organ grinder's gettin' wet

The Stone Roses, Ride On

Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg
The way you squeeze my lemon
I...I'm gonna fall right out of bed

Led Zeppelin, The Lemon Song (1969)

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