
“John, forgive me… for what I can't help doing.”
Henrietta Savernake
The Hollow (1946)
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Maybe Someday
“John, forgive me… for what I can't help doing.”
Henrietta Savernake
The Hollow (1946)
“I can't hold on very long
Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home”
"The Long Way Home", Feels Like Home (2004) [Misattributed: lyrics by Tom Waits]
Song lyrics
"Ooh, Baby" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Ooh, Baby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsVmA742FE (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
“I asked you, baby,
If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would.”
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 178
Memoirs (1993)
Context: Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 442
Sunni Hadith