The Crying Shames

Please Stay Chords

PLEASE STAY: CRYIN’ SHAMES (Bacharach/Hilliard) 73 – 6/4

This song was first recorded by the Drifters, who had a top 20 hit with it in the U.S.A. in 1961. 
This is a version by: The Cryin' Shames, who had a minor hit with it in the U.K. in 1966.

Web site: http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirc/cryins.htm

|./.    |: Repeat the previous Chord and Measure of 6-Counts. 


Intro: |G    |Bm    |G    |Bm

Verse 1:

    |G                    |Bm
IF I GOT ON MY KNEE  AND I PLEADED WITH YOU,
      |G                    |Bm
NOT TO GO  BUT TO STAY IN MY ARMS.
         |C            |D7            |G           |C      |
WOULD YOU WALK  OUT THE DOOR, LIKE YOU DID  ONCE BE-FORE.
G            |D7               |G          |D7
THIS TIME  BE DIFFERENT  PLEASE STAY  DON'T GO.

Verse 2:

    |G                        |Bm               |G                   |Bm
IF I CALL OUT YOUR NAME LIKE A PRAYER, WOULD YOU LEAVE ME ALONE IN MY FEAR.
       |C          |D7            |G              |C     |
KNOWING I  NEED YOU SO,  WOULD YOU STILL  TURN AND GO.
G            |D7               |G          |D7        |G    |G7
THIS TIME  BE DIFFERENT, PLEASE STAY  DON'T GO, PLEASE STAY.

Chorus:

 |C                      |G                   |D7                    |G
I LOVED YOU BEFORE I EVEN KNEW YOUR NAME, AND I WANTED TO GIVE YOU MY HEART.
   |C                       |G                            |D
BUT NOW YOU CAME BACK, AFTER LEAVING ME ONE TIME. THOUGH I KNEW,
        |./.                           |Bm    |D7
OH HOW I KNEW  THAT THE HEARTACHE WOULD STA -  RT.

Verse 3 + Outro:

    |G                        |Bm             |G                    |Bm
IF I CALL OUT YOUR NAME LIKE A SONG, WHICH WAS WRITTEN FOR YOU YOU A-LONE.
         |C             |D7       |G            |C     |
WOULD YOU STILL  HURT MY PRIDE, BA-BY  AFTER I'D CRIED.
G            |D7                |G           |D7         |G
THIS TIME  BE DIFFERENT,  PLEASE STAY,  DON'T GO,  PLEASE STAY.
             |D7                             |G          |D7        |G
YOU KNOW I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU DARLING, PLEASE STAY, DON'T GO, PLEASE STAY.

               
Tab by: DAIRYBEAT (André H. Hofman, Purmerend, The Netherlands).
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