I've Been Loving You Too Long

Composers: Otis Redding & Jerry Butler        Original performer: Otis Redding (1965)
First release: Got Live If You Want It!, November 1966 (with audience overdubs)
Recording date: May 1965       Recording location: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Brian Jones
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ian Stewart
Organ: Ian Stewart
 

I've been loving you too long
To stop now

You worked hard
And you want to be free
My love is growing stronger
As you become a habit to me

I've been loving you a little too long
I can't stop now

With you my life has been so wonderful
I can't stop now

You worked hard
And your love is growing cold
My love is growing stronger
As our affair, affair grows old

I've been loving you - ma ma ma - a little too long
I don't want to stop now

Oh, oh

I've been loving you a little too long
I can't stop now

Oh, oh

I can't, I can't stop now
Don't make me stop now
It's too late, it's too late
It's too late
I can't stop, I can't stop now
Don't leave me, don't leave me
Don't leave me now - ma ma ma
I can't, I can't stop loving you now
No, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
 

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