Smokey Robinson - Holly Lyrics

Classic smokey!

Masterpiece!

This song was written about the life of Billy Holiday. SO SAD.

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The rules and laws we make 4 ourselves....we are all holy

I love holly it's nice

Hi edagdwg thanks for sharing this song is a real life for a lot of good people trying to get away from something or someone sad growing up was not good for some ppl linda j ☮️ ❤️💯 💯

I agree with the bottom comment very very under rated song. Could have got alot of more airplay

Gm edagdwg this is why I say you have to know God for yourself. I never hung our never cared about the in crode no sanit but never a follower God raised me Linda j ☮️❤️ ❤️❤️💯 💯

Young girl need to listen to this song #2019

My brother Smokey; Always Great!

Awesome

love this song holly

This song makes me think of my dad he played the hell this song.

IF THE SHOE FITS YOUNG MEN HAVE FALLEN INTO THE SAME DARK PATH☝️🖤🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃

THANK YOU - I PLAYED THIS FOR A FORMER GIRLFRIEND AS A YOUTH.I TOLD HER THIS IS YOU .SHE CRIED .

Love a Wonder , Let's Love not a Holly yea

Must admit I was living in darkness,selling drugs ,using them,gangs, violence, woman, I thought I was it until they told me I need a pace maker😲 the joke was on me,EVERYDAY is a struggle for sanity 💚✌💯🎈

I had a girlfriend when i younger and I was singing this adding my own WORDS and she DDNT EVEN notice, I felt like such a MACK DADDY 💯❤🎈🔥🔥🔥

I had a friend who was just so beautiful. Her husband left her and the guy she met afterwards introduced her to heroin. She started shooting up and became addicted. She died from Aids. This song reminds me of her too...

thankfully can't relate to this or think of anyone this reminds me of, but as someone who's also 17, i appreciate the message Smokey's sending with this one. Defo the signs of a legendary musician when his music transcends time itself and stays relevant and enjoyable to future generations +40 years later. Great track

Smokey wrote songs about what was really going on, folks were dipping and doing plenty of things.

i love this song. i remeber it make me cry

I love this song.

FROM DRE'KO....I THOUGHT I KNEW ALLLLLL OF SMOKEY SONGS BUT I GET ON UTUBE AND I HEARD THIS SONG CALL "HOLLY" , AT THE SAME TIME I WAS LISTENING TO SMOKEYS'"WEDDING SONG" MAN HOW COULD SOMEONE PUT TOGETHER LOVE BALLADS LIKE THAT.....! I JUST LISTEN TO THESE 2 SONGS OVER AND OVER.....! AND AT MY WEDDING IM GOING TO SING -SMOKEYS-WEDDING SONG.....! IM AUDI.....DRE'KO....!

Love it! ❤

beautiful song still today i missed it back then glad i finally got it

Well tell me about her in this song

who was holly? Smokey?

Timothy Wright BILLIE HOLIDAY

Smokey is the greatest lyricist of all time.

just LOVE this tune!

I still have this in my rotation.

Holy was my girl 😳

My soul stills hold on

this is real music

love this song holly my brother let me listen to this song years ago my he rest in peace

The Best love song came from Smokey Robinson. Hollly, Track of my Tears, Three way love affair, Quiet Storm...

THIS IS A VERY NICE SONG THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

This was my favorite song, I lived my life, listen to this song. I was Holly.

An overlooked Smokey masterpiece!

yes indeed

Rough but real...life in America in the 70's.

Mr Carl Covington my friend also Passed away at 17 in high school and this song was out then...Bring back memories. ...

That song could have saved so many lives if it was more popular and more readily accessible to the public...I heard it when I was in south Carolina back in the seventies ...beautiful ballad...thank you Smokey....

This song brought me though so much in my childhood. I wouldn't have made it with out it

Agree--very beautiful and yes, thank you Smokey (again and again).  This may be my favorite of all his wonderful songs.

I love how the in the oldies comment sections there are just people reminiscing where they were when these songs were popular. I wish I was born in this era.

Smokey, most creative period after the Miracles. Compositions, gets overlooked.

thx 4 posting this, boy did it bring back memories.

RIP Johnny Borrego SR . 1-2-16

I dedicated all the smokey Robinson songs to my Dad Johnny Borrego SR. from his one and only Johnny Borrego jr.

love this album of the real poet of motown!!!#my man Smokey🎵🎶🎶💿💿

My best friend died of a cocaine overdose when she was 17 many years ago when we were in high school , this song makes me think of her all the time.

With you. Lost my sister at 38 yrs to heroine--always think of her with this one too...she loved this tune...

Carl so sorry 😢

Only seventeen,wow! So many years lost! Man,the world must have shook for everyone who knew her!

It has been FOREVER since I've heard this wonderful song. Had totally forgotten about it. So glad to see it here; and to have the chance to hear it again.

this is real music

This song was written about the life of BILLIE HOLIDAY. SO SAD

No it's about his daughter

Holly Robinson has never been a prostitute nor a drug addict.

That song reminded me of myself. So young, left home. Started hanging around wrong people. I knew, everything. Was thankful to be able to get away from it, was 16 at time. Was doing so much better at 24, Im very lucky alot of drugs running in 70s!!

My cousin died from heroin addiction at age 19. that was back in the 70's. Sad to see the re-emergence of heroin addiction. But yes, this song reminds me of my cousin Jackie. smh

another classic

Who gonna take the blame & Holly was the same girl he had MUCH LOVE 4 she grew up with him in the same PROJECTS & her name now is The Boss, MS. DIANA RISSUES ijs

Smokey at his lyrical peak!

charles carter .

I played those games when I was in high school. Thought I was cool, being a bad ass. Sneaking into adult venues and doing adult things. I ended up with PTSD from the abuse I brought on myself becoming "one of the living dead." However, this was our theme back in 1973. It's just my soul responding.

Most would be afraid to play the games that Holly played. 

I know a lot of hollys and they lived and sometimes died tragic lives. I thank God For Jesus I never got caught up in that life I had too many people in my life for me to get hung up in that madness

Growing up in Harlem during the heroin epidemic, Im thankful to have survived those times...

Blessed indeed you were to have support. People got stuck and didn't have that hand or help to pull them up. Give me the trees anyday...

ilike this song smokey robinson holly in 1973 sign kevin lane

grew up on this song. so sad!

30 some yrs after the murder of my sister,I can still feel the agony and that god awful sound of my mother just wailin the moment we saw the police walkin up OUR stairway.

u will never know how far my mind traveled to recall this song, my SINCERE THANK YOU for this wonderful post.

@Leo55... - Your Holly sounds like she wanted a major ride, and to-hell with whatever lie ahead. Okay...Youth has its own furiousity. I hope she made it through all that too.

Update...that was some good shit I had; made me lose five years of memory. Actually was listening to this in 1973...This and Black Ivory, "Our Future."

Remember hearing this for the first time in Roxbury, Ma. back in 1977? Met a "Holly" in Boston Commons one late night. Road the subway trains, smoked pot, drank Cinzano, and...? Holly, hope you made it through it all.

This never stop love this then and now

Peter Vincent - You are so right. So terribly many Hollys. It won't ever stop being so crushingly sad. I know one; poor, beautiful, pretty, lost Holly-Lorraine. Just 21 years old. She was found in a Hollywood dumpster seven years ago horrifically raped and beaten to death. So many Hollys. So many tears for us to weep. Every young lady's strength is our strength. Family members to you or not - We love you all much too much to be able to bear this kind of pain. Be good to us - No more Hollys.

this song is for any young women. please dont make the mistake.there a lot of hollys. stay strong

great song been lonking for this song a long time also

WOW I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS SONG

@create217 Love the lyrics in this tune, thanks for stopping by.

@theintruder42 Mine too, he is one of the masters, thanks for stopping by.

@fender374 And so do I, its a wicked tune and brings back a lot of memories for me, thanks for stopping by.

@rbelladona And its one of my favourites too, thanks for stopping by and the comment

@stud2me4u Thanks for that, I didnt know that was who it is about, thanks for stopping by

@nikkichips71 Hi, thanks for stopping by and posting your comment, Smokey does have an incredible voice.

Deep haunting lyrics so brilliantly masterpieced with arrangements and a heavenly voice - great postin :)

Holly Holly oh I miss you so I knew quite a few had a few in my life how I wish I could rewind life hurt so much almost felt a tear drop
Love this guy Mr.Smokey