Percy Sledge

Songwriter: Smokey Robinson

Producer: Quin Ivy Marlin Greene

I don't like you, but I love you
Seems that I'm always thinking of You
Tho you treat me badly, I love you madly

You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)
You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)
Baby

I don't want you, but I need you
Don't want to kiss you ,but I need to
Tho you do me wrong now
My love is strong now

You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)
You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)

I love you and all I want you to do is just hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Hoooold me

Tied
Tied

I want to leave you, don't want to stay here
Don't want to spend another day here, oh
I want to split now, I can't quit now

You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)
You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)
I love you and all I want you to do is just hold me
Hold me, hold me
Hoooold me

You really got a hold on me, (You really got a hold on me)
I said you really got a hold on me, (You really got a hold on me)
You know you really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me)
Bab, you've got a real tied a hold on me ( You really got a hold on me)
Really got a hold on me (really got a hold on me)
Baby

Percy Tyrone Sledge (25 November 1940 – 14 April 2015) was born in Leighton, AL and was a soul and gospel singer. Best known for his 1966 song, “When a Man Loves a Woman” recorded at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. He recorded several charting songs in the 1960s and 70s.

Sledge loved to tell the story about the impetus for “When a Man Loves a Woman”. He was a hospital orderly by day and a singer at night. One night he found he was so upset about a woman and a broken relationship that he couldn’t perform. He turned to his band mates and asked them to play a slow blues backing and he would sing what he was feeling. Sledge says the trio later reworked the idea he’d ad-libbed that night into the recorded version of the song. He says he gave them full writing credit for it, so essentially he gave them a gift worth millions.

Sledge continued to perform through 2004, when he retired. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

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