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  • Careless Love
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  • Burl Ives songs
  • American folk songs
  • Lena Horne songs
  • Bessie Smith songs
  • Jazz standards of obscure origin
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  • %22Careless Love%22 is a traditional song of obscure origins.Blues versions are popular; the lyrics change from version to version, but usually speak of the heartbreak brought on by %22careless love.%22 Frequently, the narrator threatens to kill his or her wayward lover. Love, oh love, oh careless love, You fly to my head like wine, You've ruined the life of many a poor girl, and you nearly wrecked this life of mine%22Careless Love%22 was one of the best known pieces in the repertory of the Buddy Bolden band in New Orleans, Louisiana at the very start of the 20th century, and has remained a jazz standard and blues standard. Hundreds of recordings have been made in folk, blues, jazz, country, and pop styles; some of the more notable versions include those by Bessie Smith, Marilyn Lee, Ottilie Patterson, Pete Seeger, and George Lewis. Big Joe Turner recorded it several times over his long career. T. Texas Tyler recorded a version in 1946 for 4-Star records. Fats Domino made a recording of it in 1951, and it has also been sung by Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold, Entrance, Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, Odetta, Lee Wiley, Janis Joplin, Siouxsie Sioux, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Ace Cannon, Ronnie Lane, Dr. John, Madeleine Peyroux, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe and Johnny Cash, Frankie Laine, Skip James, Snooks Eaglin, Harry Connick Jr., French composer and clarinettist Jean-Christian Michel and Italian songwriter and singer Lucio Dalla in his debut single in 1964 and Hugh Laurie on his 2013 album Didn't It Rain.Kenny Davern made a clarinet recording of Careless Love. The song's melody also is used in other blues songs, notably %22A bunch of thyme%22 and Moon Mullican's %22Worries on my mind%22. Elements of the Bessie Smith version's melody show up in Jerry Lee Lewis's 1956 version of %22Crazy Arms%22 as well.
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  • [%22now now don't you see what your careless love has done%22,%22oh lord don't you see what what your careless love has done%22,%22oh love oh love oh careless%22,%22don't you see what your careless love has done yeah%22]
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  • Careless Love
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