Thursday, January 22, 2026

Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley

                                          Love me tender, love me sweet

Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so

Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For, my darling, I love you
And I always will

Love me tender, love me long
Take me to your heart
For it's there that I belong
And we'll never part

Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For, my darling, I love you
And I always will

Love me tender, love me dear
Tell me you are mine
I'll be yours through all the years
Till the end of time

Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For, my darling, I love you
And I always will


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In high school I loved Elvis. I had a a bunch of his songs on cassette and I memorized them. This one was one of my favorites. Also nic cage does a great version of an Elvis song in wild at heart. Then one day I just kinda stopped loving him. Now when I hear an Elvis song I don’t really feel anything. Except blue moon. That’s a great one.

Anonymous said...

So this song is actually a Civil War song called 'Aura Lea'

It was a really popular song in the barbershop quartet circuit for a hot minute

But Elvis's writing team stole the melody and just decided to write new lyrics

...And 'Love Me Tender' was born

It has been covered (using the same lyrics) more than any other Elvis song

In fact, it's also number 3 on the most covered songs of all time

Even Roland the Rat, an 80's British Puppet

~ hit #32 on the 84' UK charts with his version

Now if I was to cover one of his songs, it would probably be

'I Can't Help Falling In Love With You'

and that's, in large part, for the cover of that song

at the end of the movie 'Some Kind Of Wonderful'

Isn't it just amazing when movie hits it, right on the nose, with a perfect song?

That's the stuff