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"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" by Four Tops

 

 Ooh, sugar pie, honey bunch

You know that I love you

I can't help myself

I love you and nobody else

 

In and out my life (In and out my life)

You come and you go (You come and you go)

Leaving just your picture behind (Ooh)

And I've kissed it a thousand times (Ooh)

 

When you snap your finger or wink your eye

I come a-running to you

I'm tied to your apron strings

And there's nothing that I can do, ooh

 

I can't help myself

No, I can't help myself

 

'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch (Sugar pie, honey bunch)

I'm weaker than a man should be

I can't help myself

I'm a fool in love, you see

 

Wanna tell you I don't love you

Tell you that we're through and I try

But every time I see your face (Can't help myself)

I get all choked up inside

 

When I call your name

Girl, it starts to flame (Burning in my heart, tearing it all apart)

No matter how I try

My love I cannot hide

 

'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch (Sugar pie, honey bunch)

You know that I'm waiting for you (Waiting for you)

I can't help myself

I love you and nobody else, ooh

 

Sugar pie, honey bunch (Sugar pie, honey bunch)

I'd do anything you ask me to (Ask me to)

I can't help myself

I want you and nobody else, ooh

 

Sugar pie, honey bunch (Sugar pie, honey bunch)

You know that I love you (Love you)

I can't help myself

No, I can't help myself, ooh

 

Sugar pie, honey bunch (Sugar pie, honey bunch)

               You know that I love you

This song is a classic love song, and clearly displays the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. During Act 1 Ophelia discusses her relationship with her father Polonius, "My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honorable fashion....and hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, with almost all the holy vows of heaven" (Act 1 iii 119-120, 122-123). The lyrics, "Sugar pie, honey bunch (Sugar pie, honey bunch) I'd do anything you ask me to (Ask me to) I can't help myself I want you and nobody else" are the core and most important lyrics of the song that best displays the love between Hamlet and Ophelia.

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