(John Mertis Jr)

Pop Chart # 87 Sep 18, 1961 King Single #5516

R&B Charts #5

Backing vocals and other personnel unknown.





Intro chorus:

(My love, my love, take my love)



Take my love

I wanna give it all to you

You can, you can, you can

Take my lips (take my lips, take my lips, take my lips)

Oh, take my arms, too (take my arms, too, take my arms)

My love is your love

Darling, no one else will do (so, oh)



Ooh-ooh-whoa

Take my hand 

(Babe, I believe yeah, really I believe, yeah)

I need you when the day is through

(Babe, I believe yeah, really I believe yeah)

Take my dreams

(Babe, I believe yeah, really I believe yeah)

An' make them all come true

(Babe, I believe yeah, really I believe yeah)

Nothing matters, yeah (oh, oh-oh)

If I can't have you (babe I believe ya)



I really love a-you (love you)

An-a babe you love me, too (me too)

So darling, believe in me (in me)

For my love, you know is true

(Da-da, da-da, da-da)



So, take my heart (soul, soul, soul, soul)

Take my very soul (soul, soul, soul, soul)

Take-a my arm, yeah (arm, arm, arm, arm)

For which I've no control (control, control, control)

My-i life, my lovin' soul

Never let it run cold (a-oh, a-oh)



(Instrumental & guitar & chorus)



Aaah, Aaah, Aaah, Aaah

Unk. spoken: 'B'

Aaah, Aaah, Aaah, Aaah



I really love you (love you)

An' I believe you love me, too (me, too)

So darlin' believe in me (in me)

For you know my love is true

(Da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da)



Take my heart (take my heart, this heart, this heart)

Oh, take my very soul (this soul, this soul, this soul)

You can take my arms (these arms, these arms, these arms)

For which I've no control (no control, no control)

My life, my love is your love

Never let it run cold (cold, cold, cold)



My-i life, my love is your love

Darlin', never let it run cold (cold, cold, cold)



My-i life, is your life

Never let it run cold 



FADES-

Ooh-oh my life, my life, my life

Is your love

Never let it run a-cold.