Darling If You Must Leave

DESCRIPTION: Singer says that if his lover leaves she will hurt him. But he will keep traveling until he finds someone else. When she sees how cruel the world can be she'll be sorry she left. By then "I'll have someone else on my mind."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (recording, Ted Taylor)
KEYWORDS: courting love rejection warning nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Walter Lee Hood, "Darling If You Must Leave" (on USMississippi01)
Ted Taylor, "Darling If You Must Leave" (Dade 45-5000, 1963)
NOTES [45 words]: Ted Taylor's "Darling If You Must Leave" is an R&B track. Walter Lee Hood's a cappella track swaps the unrhymed lines of Ted Taylor's verses without changing the meaning. Walter Lee Hood's tune is close to a chant and Ted Taylor's is not much more musical than that. - BS
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