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Joan Baez - Don't Make Promises [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings the Tim Hardin song 'Don't Make Promises' from her 1995 Proper album 'Ring Them Bells'. This album contains live recordings taken at her shows at The Bottom Line in NYC in April 1995. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below with some Wikipedia notes.

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Don't Make Promises

Singer - Joan Baez

It seems the songs you're singing
Are all about tomorrow,
Tunes of promises that you can't keep

Every moment bringing
A love I can only borrow
You're telling me lies in your sleep

Do you think I'm not aware
Of what you're saying
Why you're saying it?

Is it hard to keep me where
You want me staying?
Don't go on betraying

Don't make promises
That you can't keep (2X) 

We had a chance to find it
Time was now or never
You promised me things that I need

Then the things behind it
Took away the chance forever
You're telling me lies in your sleep

Do you think I'm not aware
Of what you're saying
Why you're saying it?

Is it hard to keep me where
You want me staying?
Don't go on betraying

Don't make promises
That you can't keep (4X)

Do you think I'm not aware
Of what you're saying
Why you're saying it?

Is it hard to keep me where
You want me staying?
Don't go on betraying

Don't make promises
That you can't keep (8X)

Songwriter: Tim Hardin

© Universal Music Publishing Group

[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

"Don’t Make Promises" was the first track on Tim Hardin's debut album Tim Hardin 1, released in 1966. The song, along with "Reason to Believe," was one of the two major songwriting hits from the album, with more than a dozen cover versions having been recorded following its release. British radio presenter and writer Charlie Gillett noted the song's ability to achieve "the elusive balance between personal miseries and universal sufferings," while author Mark Brend praised the song's "fragile pop  sensibilities" and how it contrasted with the "swaggering" R&B of album track "Ain't Gonna Do Without."

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