"Never Let Me Go" is a song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, on the 1956 Dinah Washington album The Swingin' Miss "D"

Dinah's [bad word] by Benny Golson (arranger), Anthony Ortega (alto saxophone), Hal McKusick (alto saxophone/flute), Danny Bank, (baritone saxophone), Milt Hinton (double bass), Osie Johnson [bad word] , Barry Galbraith (guitar), Clarence "Sleepy" Anderson (piano/celesta), Jerome Richardson & Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone/clarinet), and Bernie Glow [bad word] . Recorded December 4, 1956. (EmArcy Records)

Never let me go
Love me much too much
If you let me go
Life would lose its touch

What would I be without you?
There's no place for me without you

Never let me go
I'd be so lost if you went away
There'd be a thousand hours in the day
Without you I know

Because of one caress my world was overturned
At the very start, all my bridges burned
By my flaming heart you'd never leave me, would you?
You couldn't hurt me, could you?

Never let me go
Please never let me go

Because of one caress my world was overturned
At the very start all my bridges burned
By my flaming heart you'd never leave me, would you?
You couldn't hurt me, could you?

Never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go