Stay with Me ( Faces song ) - wikipedia Stay with Me ( Faces song ) `` Stay with Me '' Single by Faces from the album A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse B - side `` You 're So Rude '' ( US ) `` Debris '' ( Intl. ) Released December 1971 Format 7 - inch record Genre Boogie rock, rock and roll, glam rock, hard rock, blues rock Length 4 : 37 Label Warner Bros. Songwriter ( s ) Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood Producer ( s ) Faces, Glyn Johns Faces singles chronology `` ( I Know ) I 'm Losing You '' ( 1971 ) `` Stay with Me '' ( 1971 ) `` Cindy Incidentally '' ( 1973 ) `` ( I Know ) I 'm Losing You '' ( 1971 ) `` Stay with Me '' ( 1971 ) `` Cindy Incidentally '' ( 1973 ) Alternative cover International single sleeve `` Stay with Me '', written by Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, was first recorded by their band Faces for the 1971 album A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse. The song has also appeared on various Faces compilations and on albums by both songwriters. The lyrics describe a woman named Rita with `` red lips, hair and fingernails '' he `` found... down on the floor '' ; the singer proposes a one - night stand on the condition that she must be gone when he wakes up. `` Stay with Me '' reached number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and spent two weeks at number 10 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song also reached number 6 in the UK and number 4 in Canada. Contents 1 Chart performance 1.1 Weekly charts 1.2 Year - end charts 2 Re-recordings 3 Personnel 4 References 5 External links Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1971 -- 72 ) Peak position Canada UK 6 US Billboard Hot 100 17 US Cash Box Top 100 10 Year - end charts Chart ( 1972 ) Rank Canada 73 UK 81 US ( Joel Whitburn 's Pop Annual ) 143 Re-recordings In 1993, Stewart reunited with Wood for MTV Unplugged. Their live version of the song appears on Unplugged... and Seated ( 1993 ). Def Leppard covered the song on Yeah !. `` Phil ( Collen, guitarist ) sang ' Stay with Me ', '' noted singer Joe Elliott. `` It 's his best Rod Stewart impression. I played the Fender Rhodes, he got to sing. There was a lot of instrument - swapping going on. Vivian ( Campbell, guitarist ) played some great Ronnie Wood slide guitar. '' Personnel Rod Stewart -- lead vocals Ronnie Wood -- electric guitars, slide guitar Ian McLagan -- Wurlitzer electric piano Ronnie Lane -- bass Kenney Jones -- drums References ^ Jump up to : http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/19720226.html Jump up ^ `` Top Singles - Volume 17, No. 3, March 04 1972 ''. collectionscanada.gc.ca/. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2016. Jump up ^ ( Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles 1955 - 2002 ) Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1999 ). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin : Record Research Inc. p. 300. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 142 - X. Jump up ^ Ling, Dave ( July 2006 ). `` The dirt : Joe Elliott ''. Classic Rock # 94. p. 38. External links Stay with Me at AllMusic Faces Kenney Jones Ronnie Lane Ian McLagan Rod Stewart Ronnie Wood Tetsu Yamauchi Jesse Ed Davis Mick Hucknall Glen Matlock Studio albums First Step Long Player A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse Ooh La La Live albums Coast to Coast : Overture and Beginners Compilations Snakes and Ladders / The Best of Faces Good Boys... When They 're Asleep Five Guys Walk into a Bar... Songs `` Wicked Messenger '' `` Maybe I 'm Amazed '' `` Stay with Me '' `` Cindy Incidentally '' `` Pool Hall Richard '' `` Ooh La La '' `` You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything '' Related articles Discography List of songs recorded by Faces Small Faces Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stay_with_Me_(Faces_song)&oldid=827935311 '' Categories : 1971 songs Faces ( band ) songs Rod Stewart songs Songs written by Rod Stewart Song recordings produced by Glyn Johns Song recordings produced by Rod Stewart Songs written by Ronnie Wood Warner Bros. Records singles Songs about sexuality Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from August 2014 Use British English from August 2014 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2016 Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia 日本 語 Norsk Edit links This page was last edited on 27 February 2018, at 16 : 37. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote stay with me by the faces
Answer: Rod Stewart