Song No 6.  "Body and Soul"

Words by  Robert Sour, Edward Heyman and Frank Eyton

Music by Johnny Green

Radio was sensitive in 1930, and it refused to let this song on the air because of its suggestive ending. A new lyric was written with the the last line sufficiently laundered to "My castles have crumbled, but I am his, body and soul."

Lyrics My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for you, dear, only, Why haven't you seen it? I'm all for you, Body and Soul! I spend my days in longing And wond'ring why it's me you're wronging, I tell you I mean it, I'm all for you Body and Soul! I can't believe it, It's hard to conceive it That you'd turn away romance; Are you pretending, It looks like the ending  Unless I could have one more chance to prove dear, My life a wreck you're making You know I'm yours for just the taking I'd gladly surrender myself to you, Body and Soul!

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