The Rolling Stones
"Love In Vain"
Live at Civic Center, Baltimore, 26 November 1969

"Love in Vain" (originally "Love in Vain Blues") is a blues song written by American musician Robert Johnson. He sings of unrequited love, using a departing train as a metaphor for his loss. He recorded the song in 1937 during his last recording session and in 1939 it was issued as the last of his original 78 rpm records.

The Rolling Stones recorded "Love in Vain" for their 1969 album, Let It Bleed. Critic Richie Unterberger describes it as "as close to the roots of acoustic down-home blues as the Stones ever got."

Live performances of the song appear on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (1970) and Stripped (1995).

In a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine, Mick Jagger commented on the song's arrangement: "We changed the arrangement quite a lot from Robert Johnson's. We put in extra chords that aren't there on the Robert Johnson version. Made it more country. And that's another strange song, because it's very poignant. Robert Johnson was a wonderful lyric writer, and his songs are quite often about love, but they're desolate."

Mick Jagger – vocals
Keith Richards – guitar
Mick Taylor – guitar
Bill Wyman – bass guitar
Charlie Watts – drums

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