Sweets For My Sweet (hi & lo)

SWEETS FOR MY SWEET hi & lo
By: Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
The Drifters, The Searchers
Key: C

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If you want-ed that star 

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that shines so bright-ly 

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To match the star dust in your eye 

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Dar-lin', I would chase 

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that bright star night-ly 

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And try to steal it from the sky  


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'cause I would give sweets for my sweet, 

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sug-ar for my hon-ey 

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Your tas-ty kiss thrills me so 

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Sweets for my sweet, sug-ar for my hon-ey 

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I'll nev-er ev-er let you go 


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If you need-ed a dream 

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to keep you smil-ing 

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I'd tell the sand-man you were blue 

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And I'd ask him to keep that sand a-pil-ing 

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Till your dreams would come true 


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'cause I would give sweets for my sweet, 

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sug-ar for my hon-ey 

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Your tas-ty kiss thrills me so 

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Sweets for my sweet, sug-ar for my hon-ey 

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I'll nev-er ev-er let you go



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If you want-ed a love to last for-ev-er 

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Then I would send my love your way 

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And my love would-n’t on-ly last for-ev-er 

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But for-ev-er and a day


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'cause I would give sweets for my sweet, 

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sug-ar for my hon-ey 

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Your tas-ty kiss thrills me so 

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Sweets for my sweet, sug-ar for my hon-ey 

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I'll nev-er ev-er let you go