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"Mercy Mercy" is a blues song written by Don Covay and Ronald Dean Miller. In late 1964, the song became a hit for Don Covay and the Goodtimers reaching number one on the Cash Box R&B chart and number thirty-five on the Billboard Hot 100.^[1]

Cover versions

• Instrumental version by Booker T. and the M.G.'s on "Soul Dressing" (1965)
• by The Rolling Stones on their album "Out of Our Heads" (1965)
• Self-titled debut album of Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers (1965)
• by The Wailers (1966), appears on the album "Live Wire!!"
• by Wilson Pickett on "The Exciting Wilson Pickett" (1966)
• by Alan Price Set on "The Price to Play" (1966)
• by The Remains: B-side to their single "Why Do I Cry" and is included as a bonus track on the 1991 re-release of their album "The Remains" (1966)
• by Phoebe Snow on "Rock Away" (1981)
• by Gary U.S. Bonds, Chuck Jackson and Todd Rundgren on the album "Celebrating the Music of Don Covay" (1993)
• Appears on the Red Hot Chili Peppers single "Tell Me Baby" (2006)

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