LYRICS: Make Believe

Album:

The Home Recordings

Lyrics / Music:

Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II, 1927

Catalog number:

07863 67676 2

Recording date:

May 17, 1958

Release date:

March 9, 1999

Observation:

- Recording made at Elvis's home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California

- The song is part of the musical "Show Boat", by Kern and Hammerstein

- Elvis's version is largely improvised

- Re-released on "Back in Living Stereo - The Essential 1960-62 Masters, Rare Outtakes & Home Recordings" (MRS, 2019)

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LYRICS

Only make believe I love you

Only make believe that you love me

Others find peace of mind in pretending;

Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we

Make believe our lips are blending

In a phantom kiss or two or three?

Might as well make believe I love you

For to tell the truth, I do