LOVE LETTERS
(Written by Victor Young / Edward Heyman)

Dick Haymes - 1945
Ketty Lester - 1962
Elvis Presley - 1966


Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart
I'm not alone in the night
When I can have all the love you write

I memorize every line
And I kiss the name that you sign
And, darling, then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart

I memorize every line
And I kiss the name that you sign
And, darlin', then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart 

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as rec by Nat "King" Cole w Gordon Jenkins & his Orch  
Dec 19th 1956 Hollywood


The sky may be starless,
The night may be moonless,
But deep in my heart there's a glow!
For deep in my heart I know that you love me,
You love me because you told me so.

Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart.
I'm not alone in the night,
When I can have all the love you write.

I memorize every line,
And I kiss the name that you sign,
And, darling, then I read again,
Right from the start,
Love letters straight from your heart!

Love letters straight from your heart!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - April 2011)