NEVER LET ME GO
Jay Livingston (m) Ray Evans (l) 1955

as rec by Marian Montgomery w Orch 
cond by Laurie Holloway 1993

also rec by-
Nat "King" Cole '56
Dinah Washington '56
Abbey Lincoln '59
Barbara Allen '59
Nancy Wilson '64
Curtis Mayfield '89
The Keith Jarrett Trio '96
Liza Minnelli '96
Johnny Tillotson


Never let me go,
Love me much too much,
If you let me go
Life would lose its touch.
What would I be without you?
There's no place for me without you!

Never let me go,
I'd be lost if you went away;
There would be
A thousand hours a day,
Without you, I know.

Because of one caress
My world was overturned,
At the very start
All my bridges burned
By my flaming heart!

You'd never leave me, would you?
You couldn't hurt me, could you?
Never let me go,
Never never never let me go!

What would I be without you?
There's no place for me without you!

Never let me go,
I'd be so lost if you went away;
There would be
A thousand hours in a day,
Without you, I know.

Because of one caress
My world was overturned,
At the very start
All my bridges burned
By my flaming heart!

You'd never leave me, would you?
You couldn't hurt me, could you?
Never let me go,
Never let me go,
Never never never never never let me go!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - November 2010)