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
Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection
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- Teenage Symphony
- I Was Made To Love Her
- Call On Me
- To Make My Father Proud
- Touch The One You Love
- When I Come Of Age
- Don’t Let It Get You Down
- Lonely Teardrops
- Farewell My Summer Love
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
- Girl, You’re So Together
- Who’s Lookin’ For A Lover
- Melodie
- That’s What Love Is Made Of
- I’ll Come Home to You
- I Hear A Symphony
- If’n I Was God
- Twenty-Five Miles (Original Mix)
- I Like You The Way You Are (Don’t Change Your Love On Me)
- Give Me Half a Chance
- Love’s Gone Bad
- Girl You’re So Together (Original Mix)
- Touch the One You Love (Original Mix)
- You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me (Original Mix)
- To Make My Father Proud (Original Mix)
- Call on Me (Original Mix)
- Don’t Let It Get You Down (Original Mix)
- Melodie (Original Mix)
- What Goes Around Comes Around
- Farewell My Summer Love (Original Mix)
- You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (Original Mix)
- You’re Good For Me
- Dear Michael
- Dapper Dan
- You Are There
- My Girl
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
- We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
- People Make The World Go ’Round
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- Ben
- You’ve Got A Friend
- Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone
- Maria (You Were The Only One)
- Wings Of My Love
- Rockin’ Robin
- Got to Be There
- In Our Small Way
- Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
- I Wanna Be Where You Are
- Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
- You Can Cry On My Shoulder
- With A Child’s Heart
- Just a Little Bit of You
- We’ve Got Forever
- Cinderella Stay Awhile
- One Day In Your Life
- Take Me Back
- We’re Almost There
- Music And Me
- Morning Glow
- Euphoria
- Johnny Raven
- Doggin’ Around
- Too Young
- Happy (Love Theme From ”Lady Sings The Blues”)
- All the Things You Are
- Up Again
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- 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
- Bad
- 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