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Track: Take a Love Song
Artist: Donny Hathaway
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Name: Donny Hathaway
Spotify Genres: soul, classic soul
Followers: 654,144
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Biography

Donny Hathaway was an American R&B and Soul singer, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and producer. Born: 1 October 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died: 13 January 1979 in New York City, New York, USA (aged 33). Rolling stone magazine describes him as a legend of soul music. Among his most popular songs are "A Song for You", "The Ghetto", "Someday We'll All Be Free", "For All We Know" and Some duets with soul singer [a=Roberta Flack] "Where Is the Love", "The Closer I Get to You" and "Back Together Again". It is worth mentioning that another great success is the Christmas Song "This Christmas" Being successfully covered by other singers of various genres.

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Release: Donny Hathaway - Magnificent Sanctuary Band / Take A Love Song
Year: 1971
Genres: Funk / Soul
Styles: Soul

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LYRICS

Take a love song and sing it
Take a warm smile and wear it
And take of the love I have just for you
And you find that it helps dreams come true
For you want me too

Take a glad dream and build it
Take a strong heart and use it
Take the best of life's gifts and you'll see
When you do how the rest of the goodness in life
Find it's own way to you

Take a love song and sing it, yeah
Take the best of, the best of life's gifts and you'll see
When you do how the rest of the goodness, goodness in life
Find it's own way to you

(Take a love song and sing it)
Take a love song and sing it everywhere
Let it fill the air
(Take a warm smile and wear it)
Take a warm smile and wear it
You got to wear it

(Take a glad dream and build it)
Take a glad dream and build it to the sky
Never, never lose it
(Take a strong heart and use it)
Take a strong heart
Use it till the day you die

(Take a love song and sing it)
Take a love song, hey, love song and sing it
(Take a warm smile and wear it)
Take a warm smile, yeah
Warm smile and wear it