SINGER: Brook Benton

SONG:My True Confession

My true confession- artist: brook benton as sung on "the satin sound brook benton"- suffolk marketing-smi 2- peak billboard position # 22 in 1963- words and music by sam coslow and frederick hollander(dah, dah) (dah, dah)dear mr. editor, wontcha pleaseprint my story in your magazine?warn all the lovers how a cheating heartcan only end up in miseryi was a lyin', cheating fooltreated her so cruelbroke her heart and made her crybroke every rule and that's my(true confession) she can read the story(read it in your magazine) that's my true confession(true confession) and i'm sorry(sorry that i treated her so mean, oh oh, sorry that i treated her mean)i would call her up and apologizeif i was half the man i should bebut i'm afraid it's too late for that'cause i know she wouldn't listen to mei was a lyin', cheating fooltreated her so cruelbroke her heart and made her crybroke every rule and that's mytrue confession, she can read the story(read it in your magazine) a-that's my true confession(true confession) let her know that i'm(sorry that i treated her so mean, oh oh, sorry that i treated her mean)i know her love was truebut i made her cry time after timeuntil one day she couldn't take it no moreshe said goodbye to me and walked straight out the door, soplease mr. editor, ask her for meto take me back and give me a tryand i'll be true, oh, so trueand i'll love her till the day i dieand that's my (true confession), she buys your magazine(read it in your magazine) print the story, it's my(true confession) fadeand i'm sorrytranscribed by robin hoodthese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.