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Come a Little Bit Closer
Song by Jay and the Americans
Come a Little Bit Closer
"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s rock and roll band Jay and the Americans. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 21, 1964, making it the band's highest-charting single. It also peaked at number 4 on the Cashbox chart and at number 1 on RPM's singles chart, whilst in Australia it peaked at number 37 on the Kent Music Report. The song was their first top 5 recording in two years, since 1962's "She Cried". On the New Zealand Lever Hit Parade it peaked at number 4. It was written by songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, as well as Wes Farrell, and became Boyce and Hart's first top 10 hit. The lyrics present a romance narrative: The narrator, an unnamed American, is visiting a café in Mexico, where a woman (also unnamed) flirts with him. He is aware that she is the girlfriend of a violent outlaw named José, but is so smitten that he cannot resist dancing with and even kissing her. Even after he hears the band mention that José is coming, he lingers with...
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