Linda Jones - For Your Precious Love(1972) G

Words & Music by Arthur & Richard Brooks & Jerry Butler
From The album "Greatest Hits" 1984
Charts: US R&B No.15 US Billboard No.74
Kar by Geoff Carter 10th February 2026
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Spoken: Into each life
A little rain must fall..
And you know, every day can't be Sunday..
every smile is not a smile of happiness..
And every tear that is shedded is not a tear of joy..
I'd like to dedicate this song
To all of you lovers out there
Because maybe you have
a loved one that's far far away...
Maybe she's across the sea
Or maybe she's just in another town...

You know, I can imagine when you're all alone...
In the wee, wee hours of the night
Why don't you get yourself a piece of paper and sit down
Lord have mercy..
You just might decide to write
Knowing all the time that this letter that you write
May not be a comfort to your loved one
But let me tell you something you can say
You can say:
"Darling, for your precious love
I'd give you the world on a silver platter"
Huh, but you know as well as I,
that you'd be telling a great big lie
And you don't wanna do that to your loved one..
Neither would I...

But you can say:
"Darling, for your precious love
You know something ladies and Gentlemen
You could even go out as far as telling him or her
that you could try to swim the deepest sea
But I think if you always sit back
relax, put your mind at rest and listen to me
I think I can give a better understanding
of what I'm trying to say, mmm...

Your~...
precious love~~~~~~~
Love~... belongs.. to me~~~...
Whoa~~... Whoa~~~~..
That any love~~~...
Can't ever be~~~...

I've learned to endure~...
Oh and I...
Wan~~~~~ted... you~...
Lady...
I was so... lonely and so blue
Good God am I, messed... when I found you....

You know something Ladies
And especially you ladies I'd like to speak to..
Because you know something ladies
If you gotta man, I don't care what kind of a
Man you got, he wants you to get down on your knees
Every once in a while and kinda crawl to him..
But you know, I got a man somewhere out there
I don't mind crawling to..
Sometimes I wake up in the midnight hours
tears rolling down my face
and when I look around for my man
and I can't find him
hey, I fall a little lower, look a little higher,
kinda pray to the Lord
Because I always believe that the Lord can help you
if nobody else could...

But sometimes
I think he don't even hear me
so I have to fall a little lower on my knees
look a little higher
kinda raise my voice a little higher
And this is what I sing when I call for my man
I expressly want you ladies to listen to me
because maybe you can try this
It might help you every once in a while
That is what you sing when you call on your man
Learn to endure...

Darling~~~~~~~~...
Darling..
Don't you know~~~~~~~~...
That I love you too much? Yeah~ Yeah~..
Oh~~~~~...
Fall down on my knees~...
and prayed my baby please~..
Oh, can you tell my man that I love him
Yes I will~...
Oh~~~...

With your friends~~~~~~~... and mine
There's nothing~~~~~~~~...
in this whole wide world
I wouldn't do~ for you darling
No, and I won't go
Lord I gotta see my baby again
I gotta tell my man that I love him
One more time....

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Words
Linda Jones - For Your Precious Love(1972) G
Words & Music by Arthur & Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler
From The album "Greatest Hits" 1984
Charts: US R&B No.15 US Billboard No.74
Also covered by The Flames (South Africa) 1972
For PC MIDI Player sounds best with Timbres of Heaven
Sound fonts loaded via Coolsoft Virtual Midi Synth
Available free from midkar.com
Track 9
Percussion