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