Please Please Please - James Brown, The Famous Flames

You know… former shoeshine boy from a very, very poor family

My father, that worked hard all his life

And we «moved from pillar to post», is what the people used to say

Never really had home

I can… as far back as I can remember, it was always renting

Paying another cash bills, and never really paying home

And this is a… tune, I guess probably mean more to me

Than anything, that uh… I’ve ever been involved in

And I figured that I should come back and really, really sing it

With all the success I’ve had, and as good as people have been to me

I wanna show them, that I still have

My real heart, my real soul, my real feelin'

But when you start doing things with people, you um…

Hesitance to keep it up and, and love what you’re doing

Because you know you’re doing something good, to say

As God looked down on you and smiled

And uh… I always look back and say, you know

«I've done something good»

So I wanna get the fellas started off here…

That, and all the fellas in that control room

And it makes me feel good, start it off fellas, kick it off

(Please, please, don’t go)

Please, please, please

(Please, please, don’t go)

Honey please, don’t go

(Ohhh…) Girl, girl, I love you so

(Please, please, don’t go) Lord, have mercy

Baby, you’ve done me wrong

(Please, please, don’t go)

Baby, baby baby baby

You’ve done me wrong

(Please, please, don’t go)

You know you’ve done, done me wrong

(Ohhh…) Oh, oh yeah

Took my love, and now you’re gone

(Please, please, don’t go)

Wanna stand up and sing it, like I used to sing it

But I just wanna hear you say:

I (I), I (I), I (I), oh I (I)

I (I), I (I), oh I (I), honey please (I)

Please (ohhh…) oh Lord, baby

I, I love you so

(Please, please, don’t go)

Lord, whee-hee-hee-haw

Take my hand

(Please, please, don’t go)

I wanna be your lover man

(Please, please, don’t go)

I wanna sing it for the people from Georgia

People of New York, all of my brothers and sisters

Don’t go (ohhh…) oh, oh yeah

I love you so

(Please, please, don’t go)

I wanna dedicate this especially to

My son, who’s gone home, Teddy Brown

I just wanna say it one more time…

Please

(Please, please, don’t go)

Please, please, please

(Please, please, don’t go)

Please, honey ple-hee-hee-heaw

Don’t go (ohhh…) a-ha

Girl, I love you so

(Please, please, don’t go) Mmm…

Please, don’t go

(Please, please, don’t go)

Please…

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

…don't go

(Please, please, don’t go)

Honey please…

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

…don't, don’t go

(Please, please, don’t go

Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go)

Oh!

Please, make me feel like I’m

(Please, please, don’t go)

I’m lost

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

Baby, you make me feel like I’m

I’m burning up inside

(Please, please, don’t go)

Baby…

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

I wanna know do you know what it means

(Please, please, don’t go)

Sometimes, you look over

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

You look over where your loved one used to live

(Please, please, don’t go)

It could be your mother, your father, your sister, your brother

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

Please, ple-whee-hee-hee!

(Please, please, don’t go)

Please, please…

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

Please, whee-hee-hee-hee!

(Please, please, don’t go)

Please, oh Lord, please

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

I wanna know, is it alright if I say «mmm»

(Please, please, don’t go)

Mmmm-hmmm…

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

Uuuhhhh, mmmm…

(Please, please, don’t go)

Oh, oh…

(Don't go, don’t go, don’t go)

I wanna thank each and every one

For giving me this chance

(Please, please, don’t go)