Hank Locklin – Please Help Me, I’m Falling

“Please Help Me, I’m Falling” is a 1960 song written by Don Robertson and Hal Blair and first recorded by Hank Locklin. The single was Locklin’s most successful recording and was his second number one on the country charts. “Please Help Me, I’m Falling” spent fourteen weeks at the top spot and spent nine months on the country chart and crossed over to the Hot 100 peaking at number eight.

In 1993, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette recorded their version of “Please Help Me (I’m Fallin’ in Love with You)” for their album, Honky Tonk Angels, although Loretta herself recording a duet with Conway Twitty from the 1987 Heartland Music album.

From the album Please Help Me, I’m Falling
B-side “My Old Home Town”
Released February 1960
Genre Country
Length 2:21
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s) Don Robertson Hal Blair
Producer(s) Chet Atkins

Hank Locklin – Please Help Me, I’m Falling lyrics

Please help me, I’m falling
In love with you
Close the door to temptation
Don’t let me walk through

Turn away from me, darling
I’m begging you to
Please help me, I’m falling
In love with you

I belong to another
Whose arms have grown cold
But I promised forever
To have and to hold

I can never be free, dear
But when I’m with you
I know that I’m losing
The will to be true

Please help me, I’m falling
And that would be sin
Close the door to temptation
Don’t let me walk in

For I mustn’t want you
But, darling, I do
Please help me, I’m falling
In love with you