Edit for headphones, March 2022. A song from the 1999 album "The Lovin' Spoonful Live at the Hotel Seville".<br />The songs were recorded in 1999 during great, real live performance at the Hotel Seville in Harrison, Arkansas USA. In 1966 the original single charted nr. 87 in the USA and nr. 85 in Canada.<br />Joe Butler - vocals, guitars, autoharp, percussion.<br />Jerry Yester - guitars, vocals.<br />Lena Yester - keyboards, vocals.<br />Steve Boone - bass.<br />Mike Arturi - drums.<br /><br />FULL MEASURE<br />(John Sebastian/Steve Boone)<br /><br />the full measure of your giving<br />you don't yet understand<br />it's a cupful of living<br />that you hold in your hand<br /><br />the full weight of your loving<br />makes me lighter than air<br />the tax on receiving<br />I know that it never was there<br /><br />it started off just sticking around<br />to give that wonderful feeling from you<br />now there's fin'ly someone telling me<br />that I can really give too<br /><br />I know that you know the feeling<br />that getting something for nothing is wrong<br />getting love is so easy<br />giving love takes so long<br /><br />it started off just stickin' around<br />to give that wonderful feeling from you<br />now there's fin'ly someone telling me<br />that I can really give too, to you, to you, to you<br /><br />I've heard them saying at Christmas<br />now I can say it too<br />the feeling of giving<br />t'is just as good as I'm getting from you<br />I said t'is as good as I'm getting from you<br />t'is as good as I'm getting from you<br /><br />®© ARESA, BMG Rights Management (US), LLC, LatinAutorPerf, SOLAR Music Rights Management, Audiam (Publishing)<br />®© therock&rollingsixties
