Hold Me Close To You

Written for: Skirts Ahoy (1952)
Performer: Billy Eckstine
Lyric: Ralph Blane
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1951, 1952
Original publisher: Harry Warren Music, Inc., rights controlled by Miller Music Corporation

Chorus:

Just hold me close to you,
Hold me, hold me like you used to do;
Caress me with the warmth of your kiss;
Though love is blind, your straying fingertips
Will discover yielding lips of your lover.
Hold me close to you,
Hold me, hold me like you used to do;
And thrill me with the warmth of your love;
My silent heart will know the very moment you are near;
I feel it beating madly ev'ry time you appear,
So, hold me, hold me close, never let me go.