RUNAWAY - DEL SHANNON

RUNAWAY

DEL SHANNON

SONGWRITER: MAX CROOK & DEL SHANNON

ALBUM: RUNAWAY WITH DEL SHANNON

LABEL: BIG TOP

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 2000

"Runaway" is a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song made famous by Del Shannon in 1961. It was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a major international hit. It is No. 472 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, compiled in 2010.

As I walk along, I wonder

A-what went wrong with our love

A love that was so strong

And as I still walk on, I think of

The things we've done together

While our hearts were young

I'm a-walkin' in the rain

Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain

Wishin' you were here by me

To end this misery

I wonder

I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder

Why

Why, why, why, why, why

She ran away

And I wonder

Where she will stay

My little runaway

A-run, run, run, run, runaway

I'm a-walkin' in the rain

Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain

Wishin' you were here by me

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