You Really Got A Hold On Me

You Really Got A Hold On Me
(Smokey Robinson)

Tid-Bettes: During the recording session for “Buckets of Rain,” featured on Bette’s third album “Songs for the new Depression,” Bette and Bob Dylan frequently joked around with each other in-between takes and broke into impromptu songs. Here is an example of one of those impromptu songs. These lyrics and dialogue have been transcribed directly from the actual recording session tapes for “Buckets of Rain.”

*BETTE MIDLER – **BOB DYLAN – ***TOGETHER

**Do you have a waterbed here? Some recording studios have waterbeds.

*I don’t like you, but I love you
Seems that I’m always

**Lets do that one. I like that song. I’ll sing it with you.

*Ooooo, you will?

**Yeah, I will.

*How’s it go?

I don’t like you, but I love you
Seems that I’m always thinking of you
Oh, oh, oh, you do me wrong now
My love is strong now
You really got a hold on me

I want to leave you
Don’t want to stay here
Don’t want to spend, another day here
Oh, oh, oh, your love is wrong now
Our love is strong now
You really got a hold on me
You really

*Can we do Buckets of Rain please . . . right now.
Give us a long intro . . . give us a long intro we’ll come in.

**Can we keep that last take we just did?

*No, we’re going to erase it just to fuck with your head.

**No. No, don’t. Don’t try to fuck with my head.