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Though now a much loved song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones was released as a B-side on Honky Tonk Woman , not as its own single. In the middle of the song Jagger sings I was standing in Line with Mr. Jimmy and Man, did he look pretty ill/We decided that we would have a soda, my favorite flavor: cherry red/I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy, yeah and he said one word to me, and that was "dead" This has been taken to mean lots of things, including an allusion to Jimi Hendrix. Out favorite origin myth involves Jimmy "Mr. Jimmy" Hutmaker , an individual with an unknown condition who wandered the streets of Excelsior, Minnesota mumbling and chewing a cigar. The story is he ran into Jagger at a drugstore after a show while Jagger was getting a prescription filled (believable so far) and then ordered a Coke but got a Cherry Coke instead, then sighed saying "You can't always get what you want." We find this dubious, but we still...
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