"DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET" THE BEATLES

 

You'll never know how much I really love you.
You'll never know how much I really care.

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.

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.

I've known the secret for a week or two, Nobody knows, just we two.

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.
(LENNON-McCARTNEY)

"Do You Want to Know a Secret" is a song by The Beatles from the 1963 album Please Please Me, sung by George Harrison.

"Do You Want to Know a Secret" was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (see Lennon/McCartney), inspired by "I'm Wishing", a tune from Walt Disney’s 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which Lennon's mother, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child. The first two lines of the song in Disney's movie ("Want to know a secret? Promise not to tell?") are the opening lyrics. ^[ McCartney said it was a "50-50 collaboration written to order," i.e., for Harrison to sing^.

In 1980, Lennon said that he gave "Do You Want to Know a Secret" to Harrison to sing because "it only had three notes and he wasn't the best singer in the world," but added "he has improved a lot since then."^[ Harrison sang two songs on Please Please Me, this song by Lennon and McCartney and "Chains" by Goffin/King. The Beatles did not record a song composed solely by Harrison until "Don't Bother Me" on With the Beatles.

The song was recorded during a 10-hour session on 11 February 1963 along with 9 other songs for Please Please Me.

Despite its popularity, it has yet to appear on any compilations.