Do You Want to Know a Secret Lyrics
You'll never know how much I really love you
You'll never know how much I really care
[Verse]
Listen
Do you want to know a secret?
Do you promise not to tell? Whoa, oh, oh
Closer
Let me whisper in your ear
Say the words you long to hear
I'm in love with you, ooh
[Verse]
Listen (Do-da-do)
Do you want to know a secret? (Do-da-do)
Do you promise not to tell? (Do-da-do) Whoa, oh, oh
Closer (Do-da-do)
Let me whisper in your ear (Do-da-do)
Say the words you long to hear
I'm in love with you, ooh
[Bridge]
I've known the secret for a week or two
Nobody knows, just we two
Listen (Do-da-do)
Do you want to know a secret? (Do-da-do)
Do you promise not to tell? (Do-da-do) Whoa, oh, oh
Closer (Do-da-do)
Let me whisper in your ear (Do-da-do)
Say the words you long to hear
I'm in love with you, ooh
Ooh
About
“Do You Want to Know a Secret” is track four, side two of the band’s first album, Please Please Me. Whilst originally penned by Lennon-McCartney, George Harrison takes lead vocal.
In the United States, it was the first top ten song to feature Harrison as a lead singer, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard chart in 1964. It was the most successful Beatles song on which Harrison sang lead vocal until “Something” peaked at #1 as part of a double-sided number one hit with “Come Together” in 1969.
Q&A
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The idea came from this thing my mother used to sing to me when I was one or two years old, when she was still living with me. It was from a Disney movie: ‘Do you want to know a secret? Promise not to tell? You are standing by a wishing well.’ So, with that in my head, I wrote the song and just gave it to George to sing.
— John Lennon, Playboy, 1980
Nothing much; a song we really wrote for George to sing. Before he wrote his own stuff, John and I wrote things for him and Ringo to do.
— Paul McCartney, Playboy, 1984
- 2.Misery
- 4.Chains
- 5.Boys
- 6.Ask Me Why
- 8.Love Me Do
- 10.Baby It’s You
- 11.Do You Want to Know a Secret
- 12.A Taste of Honey
- 13.There’s a Place
- 14.Twist and Shout