Temptations, Ain't Too Proud To Beg (1966)
Key: :[C] (w: Edward Holland, Norman Whitfield)
VERSE 1:
[C] I know you want to leave me
[F] But I re-
[C]-fuse to let you go
[F] If I have to
[C] beg, plead for you sympathy
[F] I don't
[C] mind 'cos it means that much to
[G] me
CHORUS:
Ain't to proud to
[C] beg,
[F] sweet
[C] darlin'
[F] Please don't
[C] leave me;
[F] (don't you [C] go)
[F] Ain't to proud to
[C] plead,
[F] baby
[C] baby
[F] Please don't
[C] leave me girl;
[F] (don't you [C] go)
VERSE 2:
[F] Now I
[C] heard a quiet man, is half a man
[F] With
[C] no sense of pride
[F] But If I have to
[C] cry to keep you, I don't mind weepin'
[F] [C] Just to keep ya by my
[G] side
REPEAT CHORUS:
VERSE 3:
If I have to
[C] sleep on your door step, all night and day
[F] Just to
[C] keep you from walkin' away
[F] Let my
[C] friends laugh, even this I can stand
[F] Cause I'm
[C] gonna keep you;
[G] anyway I can
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [C] [F] :
[x4] //
[G]
VERSE 4:
Well your
[C] love's so deep in the pit of my heart
[F] And each
[C] day it grows more and more
[F] I'm not a-
[C]-shamed to come and plead with you baby
[F] If
[C] pleadin' keeps you, from
[G] walkin' out the door
REPEAT CHORUS: [x3] 