Unchained Melody

Words & Music by Hy Zaret & Alex North
Recorded by Roy Hamilton, 1955 (#6)

G      Em	       C
Oh, my love, my darling,

      D                 G       Em          D
I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time,

G         Em      C          D             G
Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.

    Em         D
Are you still mine?

    G	       G/F#   Em	        B+
I need your love,    I need your love, 

	C          Am7 D7   G
God speed your love   to me.


Bridge:

C              D           C          Bm
Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea

C           D            G
To the open arms of the sea

C              D               C           Bm
Lonely rivers sigh, "Wait for me, wait for me,

C                 D              G   D7
"I'll be coming home, wait for me!"


G      Em        C
Oh, my love, my darling,

       D                G       Em           D
I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time,

G         Em     C          D             G
Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.

    Em         D
Are you still mine?

   G	            G/F#   Em	       B+
I need your love,    I need your love, 

      C         Am7 D7 G
God speed your love to me.

This song first appeared in the 1955 prison-farm movie "Unchained," which starred NFL football star Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. It charted three other times that year: by Lex Baxter (#1), by Al Hibbler (#3) and by June Valli (#29). The Righteous Brothers reached #4 with their 1965 version, which reached #13 in re-release in 1990 after being featured in the movie "Ghost." Hibbler, by the way, died in May 2001, the same week as Perry Como.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.