Do You Want to Know a Secret Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


You'll never know how much I really love you.
You'll never know how much I really care.

Listen,
Do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,
Let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you.

Listen,
Do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,
Let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you.

I've known the secret for a week or two,
Nobody knows, just we two.

Listen,
Do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,
Let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you.
 
Lead Singer: George

Recording: 2/11/63, 3/6/63 (BBC), 3/21/63 (BBC), 4/1/63 (BBC), 5/21/63 (BBC), 5/24/63 (BBC), 7/10/63 (BBC)
Mixing: 2/25/63
Length: 1:55
Take: 8

Anomalies

0:39
George sings wrong note and quickly corrects it on the first "oo-oo-oo"
0:43 * NEW *
Lead vocal quality seems to change here, as if a new take or drop in here.
1:09 * NEW *
George sings "I've known a secret for the week or two" as opposed to the more sensible "the secret for a"
1:11, also 1:49-end
Bass plays wrong notes here.
1:29 * NEW *
"Do you promise not to tell, adh (doo-dah-doo)" Was George about to sing "A Doo Dah Doo" by mistake?
1:50 * NEW *
Reported as a bass trombone note, there is one very bad buzzy note in the guitar here.
 
John Lennon claimed this song came to him based on a tune his mother used to sing him from a Disney movie, possibly Snow White.
George Harrison sang lead. It's one of the few Beatles songs not sung by the person who wrote it.
The first Lennon/McCartney song to be a hit for another artist - it was recorded by Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas. Their version was #1 in England for 2 weeks.
The beatles were very close to a record deal, and John wanted to marry. Brian was very upset as he had been pitching the boys as 4 Good looking single chaps from England. John could not be talked out of the wedding so Brian made him a deal. As the 2 could not afford a honeymoon, and did not have a place of their own, he would let them use his flat for 2 weeks, with the promise that they not tell anyone they were married. In the flat on their honeymoon, for obvious reasons, John wrote "Listen, do you want to know a secret?" (thanks, Ken - Hartland, MI)


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