TU PEUX LE PRENDRE
(B. Cook / A. Salvet / L. Morisse,   1961)
Dalida (France)


Tu peux le prendre sans plus attendre
Je dois comprendre qu'il ne m'aime plus
C'est bien ma faute oui c'est ma faute
Si pour une autre je l'ai perdu

Je le soupçonne, je le questionne, je lui pardonne
Mais c'est en vain
Je dévisage sur son visage je vois l'image
De mon déclin

Tu peux le prendre sans plus attendre
Je dois comprendre que c'est la vie
Tourner la page je l'envisage
Après l'orage tout est fini

Mais qu'il comprenne, qu'avec ma peine
Dites que je l'aime, rien n'est plus fort
S'il veut m'apprendre de sa voix tendre
Qu'il faut attendre, j'attends encore

J'ai du te dire mille betises, mille sottises
Oublie tout ça
Qu'il me comprenne ah qui' m'revienne
Et qu'il me prenne entre ses bras

J'ai du te dire mille betises
Mille sottises oublie tout ça
Qu'il me comprenne ah qu'il revienne
Et qu'il me prenne entre ses bras
Qu'il me comprenne et qu'il revienne
Oh qu'il me prenne entre ses bras


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YOU CAN HAVE HIM 
(Bill Cook / Ivan Mogull)
Dionne Warwick - 1965


Well, you can have him, I don't want him, 
He didn't love me anyway. 
He only wanted someone to play with 
but all I wanted was love to stay. 

Well, you get stuck with the wrong fellow
there's only one thing that you can do: 
Just dig a hole and jump right in it, 
and pull the ground right over you. 

(Chorus) 
Well, you can have him (you can have him) I don't want him (I don't 
want him), 
He didn't love me (didn't love me) anyway (anyway). 
He only wanted (only wanted) someone to play with (one to lay with) 
But all I wanted (all I wanted) was a love to stay (was a love to stay). 

The man I love, he, up and left me, 
He ran away with my best friend. 
Comes home at night just for an hour 
When daylight comes he's gone again. 

(Chorus) 

Life without love is mighty empty, 
but confession's good for the soul. 
I'd rather have love that I can cling to 
than have the world and all of it's gold. 

(You can have him) you can have him, (I don't want him) I don't want 
him, 
(He didn't love you) He didn't love me, (anyway) anyway. 
(He only wanted) he only wanted (someone to play with) some one to 
play with 
(But all I wanted) Ohhhhhhhh! (Was love to stay)Ohhhhhhhhh! 

You can have him (you can have him) 
I don't want him (I don't want him) 
He didn't love me (didn't love me) anyway (anyway) 
He only wanted (only wanted) someone to play with (someone to play 
with) 
But all I want (all I want) 
All I want (all I want) (3x)