Aretha Franklin

Songwriter: Cecil Grant

I wonder
My darling
Where are you again tonight?
Are you holding someone else real tight?
Baby, I wonder

My heart...
My heart is aching
I believe that I'm a fool
To let it go on breaking
Maybe I wake up and find now that I'm mistaken
Oh but right now, I wonder

I've been through
Lover's Lane
And I'm living life
Just the same
I've been travelling
Nowhere faced
And what I wanna know
What I want to know is will it last?

Oh oh I wonder
I wonder
My darling
Will you think of me?
Will you think of me again tonight?
Or are you holding someone else real tight?
Ouh yeah-he-he baby I wonder

I've been through...
I've been through Lover's Lane
And I'm living life...
Living in just the same
I've been travelling...
Been travelling but nowhere faced
And what I wanna know right now
What I want to know is will it last?

I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder
My my my my my my my darling
Will you think of me?
Will you think of me every day?
Although I may be a million miles away
Right now I wonder
Although I...
Although I may be a million miles away
Baby, baby, I wonder

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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