I (Who Have Nothing)
Tom Jones
Peaked at # 14 in 1970
Original by Ben E. King charted at # 29 in 1963
Later covered as a # 46 hit by Terry Knight and the Pack in 1966, by Liquid Smoke
As # 82 in 1970, and by Sylvester as a # 40 disco version in 1979. Also covered
By Neil Diamond as a 1993 album track [Neil Diamond Up on the Roof CD].
Some critics believe that part of this song’s melody was later borrowed for the
Moody Blues’ 1967 hit «Nights in White Satin.»
Words by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Music, sometimes in dispute, thought to be by Giulio Rapetti,and Labati Carlo
Donida
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you and want you so
I’m just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh
I love you
He, he buys you diamonds
