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|song name                 = I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love
|single image              = [[Image:D&P_SDE.jpg|100px|link=Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe]] <br><small> from the album <br>[[Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe|Diamonds And Pearls ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]</small>
|performer                 = [[Prince]] (credited to [[Prince and the New Power Generation]])
|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 27|27 October 2023]] - [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe|Diamonds And Pearls ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|album(s)                  = [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe|Diamonds And Pearls ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|writer(s)                 = [[Prince]]
|producer(s)               = [[Prince]] (credited to [[Prince and the New Power Generation]])
|previous song             = [[File:Eye88.png‎|link=Eye No]][[Eye No| No]]
|next song                 = [[file:EyeBlue.png|link=Eye Remember U]][[Eye Remember U| Remember U]]
|introduction              = '''I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love''' is a track recorded at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, Minnesota on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 1|1 October 1991]] (the day after [[Letter 4 Miles]], the same day as the release of [[Prince and the New Power Generation]]’s album [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls|Diamonds And Pearls]] and the recording of [[Do U Wanna Rock?]], and [[Sweet Baby]], and two days before recording [[Thunder|The Thunder Ballet]]). The track was at one point considered for the [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]] album, yet not included on any known configuration.


'''I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love''' was released in October 2023 as the ninth track of ''Vault Tracks part 3'', one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe| Diamonds And Pearls ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]. The song was mixed by [[Chris James]] in 2022 for use on that collection.

|recording info            =
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 1|1 October 1991]]
|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA 
|additional info           = Tracking
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{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = 2022
|studio                    = unknown studio
|additional info           = Mix by [[Chris James]]
}}
|recording personnel       = 
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments except where noted
*[[Levi Seacer, Jr.]] - guitar
*[[Tommy Barbarella]] - keyboards
*[[Michael B.]] - drums (assumed)
*Other personnel, if any, unknown
|released versions         =
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|1= '''I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love'''
|2= 4:41
|3= [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe|Diamonds And Pearls ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|4= Studio
|5= 
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}}
|unreleased versions       = 
{{SongUnreleased|
|unreleased versions       = 
{{Unreleased|
|line=
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|1= '''I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love'''
|2= Studio
|3= Unmixed 1991 version
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|first live appearance     = This track is not believed to have been performed live by [[Prince]]
|performed regularly on    = none
|performed occasionally in = none
|trivia                    = The spelling of the title for the release comes from the Paisley Park work order which lists this song as '''I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love''' without using [[Prince]]’s usual shorthand spelling.
* Other than the similarity in name, '''I Pledge Allegiance To Your Love''' is not related musically or lyrically to the track [[Allegiance]] (originally recorded in 1988) initially offered to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia_Peeples Nia Peeples] for her planned second album, and ultimattely released by her then-husband [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hewett Howard Hewett] in 1992. 
|see also                  = [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls SuperDeluxe|Diamonds And Pearls ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|references                = 
|categories                = [[Category:1991]] [[Category:2023]] [[Category:Recorded 1991]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Songs (Prince and the New Power Generation)‏‎]]
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