A LITTLE BIT OF SOAP

(Bert Berns)


The Jarmels - 1961

Cliff Foenander & The Fabulous Echoes - 1963

Garnet Mimms - 1965

The Exciters - 1966

Paul Davis - 1970

Brook Benton - 1970

Showaddywaddy - 1978

Nigel Olsson - 1979




A little bit of soap will wash away your lipstick on my face

But a little bit of soap will never, never, never ever erase

The pain in my heart and my eyes as I go through the lonely years

A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears


A little bit of soap will wash away your powder from my chin

But a little bit of soap will never, never, never ever begin

To take away the hurt that I feel as I go through the lonely years

A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears


Have you heard when love begins to die 

It leaves someone to cry night and day

Like a bird, you left your robin's nest 

And a-just like all the rest you flew away


A little bit of soap will take away your perfume eventually

But a little bit of soap will never wash away the memory

Of your name in the night that I call through the lonely years

A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears


I'll never lose the memory of your name in the night

That I call through the lonely years

Mmm, a little bit of soap will never wash away my tears

Mmm, a little bit of soap will never wash away my tears

It's gonna never, never, never, uh-huh, wash away my tears

Mmm, never ......... FADE


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2014)