"Stray Cat Blues" is the eighth song on the Rolling Stones' album Beggars Banquet.
It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jimmy Miller.
[2] The song is told from the perspective of a man lusting for illegal sex with a 15-year-old groupie, reasoning that "it's no hanging matter, it's no capital crime".
[5] Rolling Stone ranked it 43rd in its countdown of the band's top 100 songs, calling it "a sleazy rocker.
[6][7] The song appears in the video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and in the film Joy.