Palisade Palisade A palisade—sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisade derives from "pale", from the Latin word "", meaning stake, specifically a stake used to support a fence. A palisade gangs these side by side to create a fence entirely made of pales. Typical construction consisted of small or mid-sized tree trunks aligned vertically, with no free space in between. The trunks were sharpened or pointed at the top, and were driven into the ground and sometimes reinforced with additional
Sittin' on a Fence States on the 1967 album "Flowers". The song was released in Great Britain in 1969 on the greatest hits album "Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)". The group did not release it as a single. It is included on the 1972 compilation "More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)", but as with so much Stones material from 1967, the band has never performed “Sittin' on a Fence” live.Towards the end of the acoustically driven song, a harpsichord, played by Brian Jones, can be heard. Sittin' on a Fence "Sittin' on a Fence" is a song written by