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Luciano Pavarotti & Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You (live)

Baby Can I Hold You is the third single released by the American contemporary folk artist Tracy Chapman, released in late 1988.

The song reached the top fifty in the United States, unlike its predecessor, "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", but it failed to become Chapman's second top forty hit, peaking at #48. It did, however, give her a second chart entry on the US Adult Contemporary charts, peaking at #19 in early 1989. (Her first adult contemporary hit was "Fast Car", which reached #7 on the AC charts.)
Given the commercial decline Chapman suffered following the release of her second album Crossroads, "Baby Can I Hold You" also became her last top fifty hit until 1996's "Give Me One Reason". Neil Diamond recorded the song for his 1989 album, The Best Years of Our Lives and became the first of many artists to cover the song.

Chapman subsequently re-recorded the song as a duet with Luciano Pavarotti for the CD Pavarotti and Friends for Cambodia and Tibet. And it was re-released as a single in promotion of the hits package Collection which reached #3 in the UK in 2001.

The lyrics:

[Tracy:]

Sorry

Is all that you can't say

Years gone by and still

Words don't come easily

Like sorry like sorry

[Luciano:]

Perdonami

È una parola che

Tu non dici mai

E non ti é facile dire le

Perdonami, perdonami

[Tracy:]

But you can say baby

Baby can I hold you tonight

Maybe if I told you the right words

At the right time you'd be mine

[Luciano:]

Io t’amo

È una parola che

Tu non dici mai

[Tracy:]

Words don't come easily

Like I love you I love you

[Luciano:]

Ci sono parole

Che tu non sai dire, o non vuoi

Quando a volte non c’è bisogno di più

Di uno scusami, se mi vuoi

[Tracy:] Baby can I hold you tonight

[Luciano:] Che tu non sai dire, o non vuoi

[Tracy:] Maybe if I told you the right words

At the right time you'd be mine

[Luciano:] Se mi vuoi

[Tracy:] You'd be mine

[Luciano:] Se mi vuoi

[Tracy:] You'd be mine

[Luciano:] Se mi vuoi

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Tracy Chapman - Give me one reason

Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.

"Give Me One Reason" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released on her 1995 album New Beginning. It is also Chapman's biggest US hit to date, reaching #3 on the US Hot 100. Chapman also performed the song six years before its release, on the December 16, 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live. A music video was released to promote the single. Chapman earned the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song for the track, that also was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Female Rock Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1997. A well known version of this song featuring Eric Clapton was released in 1999 in the compilation album A Very Special Christmas Live.

The song is a classic twelve-bar blues, both in musical structure and the repeated lyrics in each verse and chorus. It is the story of an ending relationship, and a plea from the narrator to her partner for the partner to convince her to remain, to "give me one reason to stay here, and I'll turn right back around." At the end of the song, the partner is apparently given voice for the last line, "said I told you that I loved you, and there ain't no more to say."

The lyrics:

Give me one reason to stay here

And I'll turn right back around

Give me one reason to stay here

And I'll turn right back around

Because I don't want leave you lonely

But you got to make me change my mind

Baby I got your number and I know that you got mine

But you know that I called you, I called too many times

You can call me baby, you can call me anytime

But you got to call me

Give me one reason to stay here

And I'll turn right back around

Give me one reason to stay here

And I'll turn right back around

Because I don't want leave you lonely

But you got to make me change my mind

I don't want no one to squeeze me, they might take away my life

I don't want no one to squeeze me, they might take away my life

I just want someone to hold me and rock me through the night

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need

But I'm too old to go chasing you around

Wasting my precious energy

Give me one reason to stay here

And I'll turn right back around

Give me one reason to stay here

And I'll turn right back around

Because I don't want leave you lonely

But you got to make me change my mind

Baby just give me one reason, Give me just one reason why

Baby just give me one reason, Give me just one reason why I should stay

Because I told you that I loved you

And there ain't no more to say