952 – Otis Redding – For your precious love (1965)

Escrita por Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks e Jerry Butler, foi gravada inicialmente por Jerry Butler and The Impressions em 1958. É a canção número 335 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da revista Rolling Stone.

Mas a nossa versão é a de Otis Redding, do seu disco de 1965 chamado The Great Otis Redding sings Souls Ballads.

Foi regravada também por Jerry Butler sem os Impressions, The Rolling Stones, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Your precious love, now, means more to me
Than any love, any love could ever be
For when I wanted you, oh now, I was so lonely and so blue
For that's what love, that's what love really made me do

And darling, oh, they keep saying that our love won't grow, now
But honey I wanna tell them
And I just wanna show them
How in the world do they know?

It won't be long, oh now, oh now
For as long as you're in love with me, now
I know our love will grow wider
And so deeper than any, any other sea, now

And all, all the things that I want, now
In this whole wide world is just
For you to say, for you to say
That you would be my, my girl, now

And I'm calling, I'm wanting you, I just keep wanting you, now, oh now
I'm wanting you, now, nobody but you, now, nobody but you, now

A versão de Otis Redding:

A versão dos Rolling Stones:

A versão de Jerry Butler: