GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME LOVE
From the film "Torch Singer" (1933)
(Music: Ralph Rainger / Lyrics: Leo Robin)


Claudette Colbert (Film Soundtrack) - 1933
Annette Hanshaw - 1933
Mildred Bailey (with The Dorsey Brothers) - 1933
Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys - 1998
Alex Pangman - 2000

Also recorded by: Anson Weeks & His Orch;
Bob Crosby & His Orch.; The Moonlighters.



I'm a slave to you
Don't you want the heart I gave to you
You can have me if you want me
But you must be mine alone
Give me liberty or give me love

You're so dear to me
I'm in heaven when you're near to me
You can have me if you want me
But you must be mine alone
Give me liberty or give me love

You've been kind of strange
Why the sudden change
Do you want somebody new

I'd be glad to share
All your grief and care
But never will I ever share you

I'll be all your own
Yours to have and hold and call your own
You can have me if you want me
But you must be mine alone
Give me liberty or give me love

Mmm-mmm, I'm only a slave to you
Now you can have me if you really want me
Give me liberty or love

You're so dear to me
When you are near to me
You can have me
But you must be mine alone
Give me liberty or give me love

You've been kind of strange
Why the sudden change
Do you want somebody new

I'd be glad to share
All of your grief and care
But never will I ever share you

I'll be all your own, dear
Yours to have and hold and call your own, dear
You can have me if you want me
But you must be mine alone
Give me liberty or give me love
Give me liberty or love






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2012)