For Your Precious Love

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. Considered one of the major figures in soul music and rhythm and blues, and one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music, his singing style influenced other soul artists of the 1960s, and he helped to craft the short-living and powerful style of R&B that formed the basis of the Stax Sound. After appearing at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, he wrote and recorded "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper, which became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts after his death in a plane crash. The Dock of the Bay reached number one on the UK A… more »

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For your precious love means more to me 
Than any love could ever be 
For when I wanted you I was so lonely and so blue 
For that's what love will do 

Darling, I'm so surprised, 
Oh, when I first realized 
That you were fooling me 
Darling, they say that our love won't grow 

I just want to tell them that they don't know 
For as long as you, long as you are loving me 
Our love will grow wider, deeper than any sea 
And all the things in the world, in this whole wide world 
Is just that you would say that you'd be my girl 

(Wanting you) Wanting you, (I'm lonely and blue) whoa, lonely 
That's what love will do 

For your precious love means more to me 
Than any love could ever be 
For when I, I wanted you I was so lonely and so blue 
That's what love will do

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Blues, Funk / Soul

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Rhythm & Blues, Soul

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Written by: NICKOLAS ASHFORD, VALERIE SIMPSON

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