Let Me Share Your Name

Bob Nolan
Original copyright: April 17, 1950

Take me with you where you go,
I’ll cause you no pain,
I’ll be oh, so proud
If you’ll let me share your name.

Where you come from, where you go
Only angels tell,
Where your footsteps fall
Let my footsteps fall as well.

Where your heart goes there goes mine.
Take me with you, dear.
Then this joy of mine will be thine
When I’m so near.

Take me with you where you go.
I’ll cause you no pain.
I’ll be oh, so proud
If you’ll let me share your name.”

One of the more popular of Bob Nolan's love songs, "Let Me Share Your Name" has been recorded by many artists, including Rosalie Allen, Jo Damita, June Christy and Robert Wagoner. We heard that Marty Robbins also recorded it but we can't find it.

Sheet music was published by Bob Nolan Music in 1950. (“BN 102” is written at lower edge of the sheet music.) Most of Bob Nolan's sheet music was lost in a garage fire in 1948 but the later printings are slowly surfacing.

RCA Victor recorded the Sons of the Pioneers singing the song on October 17, 1947 and the song was used seven times on the Lucky U Ranch radio show series (1952-3).

In this recording, verse 2 was missing and Bob prefaced the song with these spoken words—“When I was a very small boy, my granddad used to tell me wondrous tales of his roaming adventures until one day he met a very beautiful girl. Well, the rest of the story was told in my grandmother’s smile….” Nolan registered the song for copyright three years later on April 17, 1950.

Let Me Share Your Name (Bob Nolan Music, Inc.)

SONS OF THE PIONEERS TRANSCRIPTION RECORDINGS

Lucky U Ranch radio shows (courtesy of Larry Hopper)
- Transcriptions disc TR-228/229 (February 6, 1952)
- Transcriptions disc TR-270/271 (March 6, 1952)
- Transcriptions disc TR-397/398 (June 4, 1952)
- Transcriptions disc TR-487/488 (August 22, 1952)
- Transcriptions disc TR-519/520 (October 15, 1952)
- Transcriptions disc TR-650/651 (January 15, 1953)
- Transcriptions disc TR-686/687 (February 10, 1953)