Billy Eckstine – I Apologize lyrics

- words by Billy Rose and Eddie Heyman, music by Johnny Green
- The Andrews Sisters had a # 1 hit with "I Wanna Be Loved" 20 years after
the song was first introduced
- lyrics as recorded in Los Angeles March 30, 1950 by The Andrews Sisters
with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra. Lead vocal by Patty Andrews.
- Also charted in 1950 by Billy Eckstine (# 7); Hugo Winterhalter (# 11); Dinah
Washington (# 22); Dottie O'Brien (# 23); and Jan Garber (# 28).

I wanna be loved with inspiration
I wanna be loved starting tonight
Instead of merely holding conversation
Hold me tight

I wanna be kissed until I tingle
I wanna be kissed starting tonight
Embrace until our heartbeats intermingle
Wrong or right

I feel like acting my age
I'm past the stage of merely turtledoving
(be careful, be careful what you do)
I'm in no mood to resist
And I insist the world owes me a loving

I wanna be thrilled to desperation
I wanna be thrilled starting tonight
(love me, love me, love me)
With every kind of wonderful sensation
I wanna be loved

I feel like acting my age
I'm past the stage of merely turtledoving
I'm in no mood to resist
And I insist the world owes me a loving

I wanna be thrilled to desperation
I wanna be thrilled starting tonight
With every kind of wonderful sensation
I wanna be loved