“Give ME – Five Minutes MORE”

Oct 22nd “Give ME – Five Minutes MORE”

These words… “Give ME Five minutes more” – are heard all day long – just about everywhere – “YOU” find that you are doing something and someone else, wants you to stop – drop what you are doing and come and HELP them – or just start to do something different – and do it – right NOW!

This song was very popular in the 1946 and years following. It just had that move to it – move your body NOW, and hurry up – and the rhythm just caught on so well, that even “ME” an Orphan would use those words, “Give me 5 minutes more” – “I’m so tired – this getting up at “5:30 a.m.” is just too early for a little girl, like me!” We had to be in CHURCH at “6:00 a.m.” and this was too early for me – since we did not do this at our HOME , before the Orphanage – and too hard for me to understand the meaning to all of this “early bird” stuff!

The music was good and the words were something that we were using for some reason or the other – and sometime later – I do not know when – the words never came up for me to use – guess things finally became so regulated – that there never was a chance for a change in the system’s sequence – so the body just followed orders – rather than get into trouble!

Just the other day – I received a phone call – and what ever I was asked, just so fast – the words, “Give me five minutes more” and then I had to just start laughing – and had to say to the caller – “You remember that old song, don’t you?” Their reply was – “I like the way you sang those words, do it again!” So then, I had to go into a long story about that song, and said, “I will just have to write about that old memory in time!”

It is good to remember old songs and stuff from way back when you were once a little kid, and the way we did things – and why things were done the way they were – and even with all that we may not have liked – we had FUN and did enjoy everything – back then – at that time!

So for the words of “Five Minutes More” – check these out and see which you remember and or like, too!

Dear, this evening seemed to go so awfully fast
We had so much fun and now you’re home at last
I look forward to a kiss or two at the garden gate
But she gave me just a peck and insisted it was lateGive me five minutes more, only five minutes more
Let me stay, let me stay in your arms
Here am I, begging for only five minutes more
Only five minutes more of your charms

All week long I dreamed about our Saturday date
Don’t you know that Sunday morning you can sleep late?
Give me five minutes more, only five minutes more
Let me stay, let me stay in your arms

Ah, come on

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Five Minutes More
Recorded by Jim Reeves
Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne

G C A7
Give me five minutes more only five minutes more
D7 G
Let me stay let me stay in your arms
C A7
Here am I begging for only five minutes more
D7 G
Only five minutes more of your charms

C G
All week long I dreamed about our Saturday date
A7 D7
Don’t you know that Sunday morning you can sleep late
G C A7
Here am I begging for only five minutes more
D7 G
Only five minutes more of your charms

D7 G
Only five minutes more of your charms

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