I DON'T WANT TO BE FREE

(Eddie Dean (m & l) )


As sung by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely 1951 on 
< The Best Of Jimmy Wakely Slippin' Around > released 1966


I don't wanna be free anymore [both]

I wanna be with the one I adore

I'd like to have you with me now

I gotta get you back somehow.


I don't wanna be free and alone

I'm sorry dear for the harm I have done

I hope that you will hear my plea

I just don't wanna be free.


I thought that you were foolin' [Whiting]

When you told me to behave [Wakely]

Now that I've had my schoolin' [Whiting]

If you come back I'll be your slave [both]


I don't wanna be free anymore [both]

You have the key to my heart and my door

So baby please come back to me

'Cause I don't wanna be free.


(bridge)


I thought that you were foolin' [Whiting]

When you told me to behave [Wakely]

Now that I've had my schoolin' [Whiting]

If you come back I'll be your slave [both]


I don't wanna be free anymore [both]

You have the key to my heart and my door

So baby please come back to me

'Cause I don't wanna be free.


Notes:


Jimmy Wakely was an American C & W singer and actor. He was first

discovered by one of the Radio/TV/Movie singing cowboys, Gene Autry. He

acted in a number of B Westerns during the 1940s. He had a successful

recording career but became more prominent after he joined forces with

Margaret Whiting. He eventually had his own TV radio show and continued

acting and singing until the 1970s. He is most well known for the titles

SLIPPIN' AROUND
ONE HAS MY NAME (THE OTHER HAS MY

 HEART)



Margaret Whiting, daughter of songwriter Richard Whiting, was a

1940s/50s/60s pop, jazz, C & W singer and TV personality. She was born

in Detroit USA. Her voice was wonderfully mellow, particularly in the

lower registers, and an attraction for many. She had a number of hit

recordings and continued to entertain until the 1990s. She was known by

her adoring fans as the voice of MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT the work of

Blackburn/Suessdorf which her mentor, Johnny Mercer first suggested she

record. She first sang for Mercer when she was seven years old and he

eventually signed her as one of his first recording artists in the early

1940s. This song ultimately became a huge hit and over the years, a

picturesque all time standard.


(Transcribed by David Story May 2014)