Sweets for my sweet (1962)

 

     G                    C       D                  C

Sweets for my sweets sugar for my honey, ,

 G                    C      D          C

    your thirsty kiss thrills me so.

     G                    C       D                  C

Sweets for my sweets, sugar for my honey,

 G                C    D         C

    I`ll never ever let you go.

 

               G               C                            D      - C

1. If you wanted the star that shines so brightly,

 G                       C                      D  - C

    to match the stardust in your eye,

                G             C                              D     - C

    darling, I would chase that bright star nightly,

 G                  C                      D              C

    and try to steal it from the sky, `cause I would give

 

                                      G              C                            D    - C

2. + CHORUS    If you needed a dream to keep you smiling,

 G                  C                             D  - C

    I`d tell the sandman you were blue.

                  G               C                        D   - C

    And I`d ask him to keep that sand a-piling,

 G                   C                            D               C

    until your dreams would come true, `cause I would give

 

                                          G            C                  D    - C

3. + CHORUS        If you wanted a love to last forever,

 G                       C                          D   - C

    then I would send my love your way.

                    G                 C              D    - C

    And my love wouldn`t only last forever,

G           C                 D              C

    but forever and a day, `cause I would give

 

+ CHORUS  2 x  

 

    (The Drifters)