a Taste of Honey (Marlow-Scott) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: f# minor Meter: 3/4 (Verse) and 4/4 (Bridge) Form: Intro | Verse | Bridge | Verse | | Bridge (complete ending) CD: "Please Please Me", Track 12 (Parlophone CDP7 46435-2) Composer: Bobby Scott / Ric Marlow Influential version: Lenny Welch (1962) Recorded: 11th February 1963, Abbey Road 2 UK-release: 22nd March 1963 (LP "Please Please Me") US-release: 22nd July 1963 (LP "Introducing The Beatles") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A taste of honey tasting much sweeter than wine Do do do F#m A E F#m I dream of your first kiss and then I feel upon my lips again yours was the kiss that awoke my heart There lingers still tho we're far apart F#m F#maj7 F#m7 B F#m F#maj7 F#m7 B A taste of honey A taste of honey Tasting much sweeter than wine B F#m A E F#m (B F#m) I will return yes I will return I'll come back for the honey and you Do do do F#m B F#m B A E F#m Do do do F#m A E F#m I dream of your firwine B F#m A E F#m (B F#m) I will return yes I will return I'll come back for the honey and Those was a kiss that avowed my heart They ring (in) still, though you far will part A taste of honey, tasting much sweeter than wine {Chorus.}