Released: January 24, 1972
Songwriter: Willie Hutch
Producer: Willie Hutch
[Intro]
Ooh
Foolish of me, I could not see
The forest for the trees
You have been so true
I have been so cruel to you
Oh, girl please do not leave me
[Verse 1]
If you stay I will find a way
To erase the past
Baby do not leave me
Girl do not take your love from me
Oh girl
What can I say to make you stay
Baby, do not leave me
You have been so kind
It blows my mind to know
Oh girl, I really hurt you
[Chorus]
Tell me girl, it is not too late
And you give me a chance
To make it up to you
Do not take your love from me
Girl do not take your love
Do not take your love
[Verse 2]
Girl, if you take your love away from me
I am going to be in misery
Your love is the strength that I lean upon
How will I make it when it is gone
Of all the little things I wanted to say
I really wanted to do
Girl , this time
Ooh, oh girl I really mean it
[Chorus]
So tell me girl, it is not too late
And you will give me a chance
To make it up to you
Do not take your love from me
Do not take your love, no no no no no
Do not take your love
Do not leave me girl
[Outro]
Do not take your love from me
Baby, do not take your love from me
Do not take your love from me
Oh, do not take your love from me
Baby, do not take your love from me
Ooh
Foolish of me, I could not see
The forest for the trees
You have been so true
I have been so cruel to you
Oh, girl please do not leave me
[Verse 1]
If you stay I will find a way
To erase the past
Baby do not leave me
Girl do not take your love from me
Oh girl
What can I say to make you stay
Baby, do not leave me
You have been so kind
It blows my mind to know
Oh girl, I really hurt you
[Chorus]
Tell me girl, it is not too late
And you give me a chance
To make it up to you
Do not take your love from me
Girl do not take your love
Do not take your love
[Verse 2]
Girl, if you take your love away from me
I am going to be in misery
Your love is the strength that I lean upon
How will I make it when it is gone
Of all the little things I wanted to say
I really wanted to do
Girl , this time
Ooh, oh girl I really mean it
[Chorus]
So tell me girl, it is not too late
And you will give me a chance
To make it up to you
Do not take your love from me
Do not take your love, no no no no no
Do not take your love
Do not leave me girl
[Outro]
Do not take your love from me
Baby, do not take your love from me
Do not take your love from me
Oh, do not take your love from me
Baby, do not take your love from me
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- That’s What Love Is Made Of
- Dancing Machine
- Never Can Say Goodbye
- I’ll Come Home to You
- Dear Michael
- You Are There
- Just a Little Bit of You
- Cinderella Stay Awhile
- Who’s Looking For A Lover
- Lonely Teardrops
- When I Come Of Age
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- Call on Me (Original Mix)
- Don’t Let It Get You Down (Original Mix)
- Melodie (Original Mix)
- Farewell My Summer Love (Original Mix)
- If’n I Was God
- It’s Too Late to Change the Time
- Maybe Tomorrow
- One Day In Your Life
- Take Me Back
- We’re Almost There
- Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone
- Maria (You Were The Only One)
- Rockin’ Robin
- Got to Be There
- In Our Small Way
- Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
- I Wanna Be Where You Are
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ben
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- People Make The World Go ’Round
- Music And Me
- Happy (Love Theme From ”Lady Sings The Blues”)
- All the Things You Are
- With A Child’s Heart
- You Can Cry On My Shoulder
- Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
- We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
- I’ll Be There
- Got To Be There (1972)
- One Day in Your Life (1981)
- Anthology (1986 Edition) (1986)
- Anthology (1995 Edition) (1995)
- Anthology (2008 Gold Edition) (2008)
- Michael Jackson & Jackson 5: The Motown Years (2008)
- Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009)
- Billie Jean
- Smooth Criminal
- They Don’t Care About Us
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Man in the Mirror
- Thriller
- Human Nature
- Beat It
- Dirty Diana
- Heal the World
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- Black or White
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Rock with You
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- You Are Not Alone
- Remember the Time
- You Rock My World
- Will You Be There
- Scream
- Off the Wall
- The Girl Is Mine