Don't

Album: Elvis' 30 #1 Hits (1958)
Charted: 2 1
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  • Don't, don't, that's what you say
    Each time that I hold you this way
    When I feel like this and I want to kiss you, baby
    Don't say don't, don't
    Don't, don't, don't
    Don't, don't leave my embrace
    For here in my arms is your place
    When the night grows cold and I want to hold you, baby
    Don't say don't, don't, don't, don't, don't

    If you think that this is just a game
    I'm playing
    If you think that I don't mean
    Every word I'm saying
    Don't, don't, don't, don't
    Don't feel that way
    I'm your love and yours I will stay

    This you can believe
    I will never leave you
    Heaven knows I won't
    Baby, don't say don't Writer/s: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Tim Shank from Bethesda MdIn the song "Don't", by Elvis Presley, the lyrics for the song, near the beginning, call for "...long to kiss you", but Elvis actually says (in all the recordings I've heard), "...long to kill you". How on earth did that get by the producers?!
  • Michael Silva from PhilippinesThe authors make it sound like Elvis requested this, recorded it, and had it released in quick succession. I suppose they were making the film, "Jailhouse Rock", when he asked for a ballad. But of course there is a lot of post production in most films and for whatever reasons, they decided to wait and release "Don't" right after the "Jailhouse Rock" record hit the top. I would guess they all had a backlog of material to release but just had to wait sometimes for a big hit to slow down until releasing more material. I know that when Elvis was drafted into the army, that he had a lot of material released in the two years he was gone and not making new records.
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