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You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

(Vicki Wickham / Simon Napier-Bell / Pino Donaggio / Vito Pallovicini)


Copyright Miller Music Corp.

Original in italian by Pino Donaggio in 1963

Italian original titled "Io Che Non Vivo Piu d'Un Ora Senza Te"

RCA studio session - June 4-8, 1970 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 June 6, 6-9 pm, 10 pm-1 am, 1:30-4:30 am

ZPA4 1608-03


Overdub sessions for RCA - July 18, 1970 - RCA's Studio A - Nashville

 ZPA4 1608-03
August 1971 Single A side RCA 47-9916 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me / Patch It Up
Outtakes:
Rehearsal, takes 1 and 2: May 5, 2008 CD FTD 88697 29696-2 That's The Way It Is
Take 2: July 30, 1996 CD RCA 66866-2 A Hundred Years From Now Essential Elvis Vol 4








When I said I needed you
You said you would always stay
It wasn't me who changed, but you
And now you've gone away
Don't you know that now you're gone
And I'm left here on my own
Now I have to follow you
And beg you to come home


You don't have to say you love me just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever, I will understand
Believe me, believe me, I can't help but love you
But believe me I'll never tie you down


Left alone with just a memory, life seems dead and so unreal
All that's left is loneliness, there's nothing left to feel


You don't have to say you love me just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever, I will understand
Believe me, Oh believe me
Oh, you don't have to say you love me just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever, I will understand
Believe me, believe me, believe me 



Standard tuning.
                   Bbm         Bbm7   Eb7
    When I said, I needed you
                       Ab             Bb
    You said you would always stay
                     Bbm
    It wasn't me who changed, but you
        Gm7-5          G7-9  C7
    And now you've gone     away

  Fm                   Bbm              Bbm7   Eb7
    Don't you see that now you've gone
                     Ab         Db
    And I'm left her on my own
                   Bbm
    Then I have to follow you
        Gm7-5           C7
    And beg you to come home

    F                 Dm
    You don't have to say you love me
    Gm               C7
    Just be close at hand
    F                 Dm
    You don't have to stay forever
    Gm          C7
    I will understand
      F           Am
    Believe me, believe me
      Dm
    I can't help I love you
          Gm7                          C
    But believe me, I'll never tie you down

    (Tacet)                Bbm     Bbm7  Eb7
    Left alone with just a memory
                        Ab         Db
    Life seems dead and so unreal
                       Bbm
    All that's left is loneliness
            C7      C7-9   C7+5    Fm
    There's nothing left        to feel

    F                 Dm
    You don't have to say you love me
    Gm               C7
    Just be close at hand
    F                 Dm
    You don't have to stay forever
    Gm          C9
    I will understand
      F           D
    Believe me, believe me

    G                 Em
    You don't have to say you love me
    Am               D7
    Just be close at hand
    G                 Em
    You don't have to stay forever
    Am          D7
    I will understand
      G        Dm6   G        Dm6    G
    Believe me,    believe me,     believe me
    Chords:
      Gm7-5    G7-9     C7-9     C7+5      C9       Dm6
    e --3--    --1--    --3--    --4--    --3--    --1--
    B --2--    --3--    --2--    --1--    --3--    --0--
    G --3--    --1--    --3--    --3--    --3--    --2--
    D --3--    --0--    --2--    --2--    --2--    --0--
    A -----    -----    --3--    -----    --3--    -----
    E -----    -----    -----    -----    -----    -----