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  1. You Don't Know Me

From the recording As Long As I'm Singin'

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"You Don't Know Me" is a song written by Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker in 1955. "You Don't Know Me" was first recorded by Arnold that year and released as a single on April 21, 1956, on RCA Victor.[1] The best-selling version of the song is by Ray Charles, who took it to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962, after releasing the song on his number 1 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at number 14 on the pop chart. Arnold's version charted two months later, released as an RCA Victor single, 47–6502, backed with "The Rockin' Mockin' Bird", which reached number 10 on the Billboard country chart.

Lyrics

You give your hand to me,
And then you say, “Hello”.
And I can hardly speak,
My heart is bea-ting so.
And anyone can tell,
You think you know me well,
But, you don't know me-e. (naw)
No you don't know the one,
Who dreams of you each night;
And longs to kiss your lips,
And longs to hold you tight.
To you, I'm just a friend,
That's all I've ever been.
No, you don't know me.
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For I never knew.. the art of ma-kin’ love,
Though my heart aches with love.. for you.
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by.
A chance that you might lo-ove me too.
You give your hand to me,
And then you say, “Good-bye."
I watched you walk away,
Be-side the ^lucky guy.
I know.. you'll never ever know,
The one who loved you so.
No, you don't kno-ow me.

(INSTRUMENTAL)

But I never knew.. the art of ma-kin’ love,
Though my heart aches with love.. for you.
I^^^’m afraid and shy, and I let my ^chance go by.
A chance that you might love me too-o-o.
You give your hand to me,
And then you say, “Good-bye."
I watched you walk away,
Beside the ^lucky guy.
O-oh, no you'll never ever know,
The one who loved you so,
No.. you… don’t… know me.
You don’t know me..
You don’t ^know ^me…