The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand Lyrics

The Beatles Lyrics

"I Want To Hold Your Hand"

Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

Oh please, say to me
You'll let me be your man
And please, say to me
You'll let me hold your hand
You'll let me hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

And when I touch you I feel happy
Inside
It's such a feeling that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide

Yeah, you got that something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

And when I touch you I feel happy
Inside
It's such a feeling that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide

Yeah, you got that something
I think you'll understand
When I feel that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

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Thanks to Phil Ambrozy for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Paul James McCartney, John Winston Lennon

This song was the first The Beatles' song to be recorded on four-track equipment.

With this song the band had their first hit single in the USA, though they'd already been popular in the UK over a year to that moment. It is still their best-selling song in the USA.

The Beatles had their first concert in the USA one week after the release of this song there, and having number-one single greatly helped them built their popularity stateside.

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" were recorded by The Beatles in German as "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" and "Sie liebt dich" respectively. This was the second and the last time when they recorded in another language. The first time was with the song "My Bonnie" in the early sixties.

Bob Dylan was sure for some time that this song contains the words "I get high" instead of "I can't hide". When he met the band later, he was surprised to learn the truth and, moreover, to find out that none of The Beatles had actually smoked marijuana.

The Rolling Stone magazine put this song at number 16th position on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004.