Not Fade Away

Not Fade Away


I gonna tell you how it's gonna be
You're gonna give your love to me
I'm gonna love you night and day
Well you know my love is not fade away
Well you know my love is not fade away

And my love's bigger than a Cadillac
I try to show it and you're drivin' me back
Your love for me has got to be real
Before you to know just how I feel
Love is real not fade away
Well love that's real not fade away

(Instrumental)

I gonna tell you how it's gonna be
You're gonna give your love to me
Love that lasts more than one day
Well love is love and not fade away
Well love is love and not fade away
Well love is love and not fade away

(Instrumental)


song by Bo Diddley
copyright by Buddy Holly & The Crickets, 1957

I've long been fascinated by this song: as performed by Bo Diddley who I'd heard play around the Bay Area way before I heard the Crickets. (But who can resist Mick's, uh, maracas? And that guitar from that guy before his body was taken over by aliens! But, mostly, that harp drive.) I've been thinking of it lately, it's influence. There's something really sexy about a male singing it. Provecho!

I'm off to People's Park 40th Anniversary!