Lyric Please Stay

Please Stay
The Drifters
Written by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard

Peaked at # 14 in 1961
One of the first Drifters hits featuring new lead singer Rudy Lewis, who replaced departing
Ben E.
King. One of songwriter Burt Bacharach s early pop hits, featuring future pop stars Dionne
Warwick and Doris Troy on background vocals.

TRANSCRIBER S NOTE: "Don t go" is sung by the bass only. All backups join in on "Please
stay"

Don t go (Please stay)
Don t go (Please stay)

If I got on my knees and I pleaded with you
Not to go but to stay in my ar-arms
Would you walk out the door like you did once before?
Or would this time be different, would you sta-a-ay?

Don t go (Please stay)
Don t go

If I called out your name like a prayer in the night
Would you leave me alone with my tears?
Knowing I-I, I love you so-o, would you still turn and go?
Or would this time be different in some wa-a-ay?

Don t go (Please stay)
(Please stay)

You took me away from the rest of the world
When you taught me to love you like this
Now I hang by a thread in the canyon of doom
But I still can be saved.. by your kiss

If I got on my knees and I pleaded with you
Not to go but to stay in my ar-arms
Would you walk out the door like you did once before?
Or would this time be different, would you sta-a-ay?

(Don t go)
(Please stay)
(Don t go)
(Please stay)
(Don t go)
(Please sta-ay-ay-ay-ay) (ay-ay-ay-ay) (ay-ay-ay-ay)