Please Say You Will

Album: The Complete Scott Joplin (1895)
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  • Closed in the parlor we are alone,
    Happy to be with one that I love.
    I'll ask you kindly, Oh Mamie dove,
    Do speak just a few words to bind us in love.
    I will confess that I have been false,
    The other girl was really the cause;
    She is a flirt too, and never still,
    I don't love none but you, Please say you will.

    Must I plead, must I kneel, and you not forgive?
    Has your heart, love, been sealed? Do you love me still?
    You have always been true. Now why not forgive?
    I don't love none but you, Please say you will.

    Oh Mamie loved one don't treat me so,
    You have forsaken, where will I go,
    Bowed on my knees I pray once again,
    Forgive me my loved one for I am to blame.
    Once you were kind and kissed me so sweet, The other girl has fooled me complete,
    Now I will live true, why not forgive,
    I don't love none but you, Please say you will.

    Must I plead, must I kneel, and you not forgive?
    Has your heart, love, been sealed? Do you love me still?
    You have always been true. Now why not forgive?
    I don't love none but you, Please say you will.

    Now we must part love. I'll ask again,
    Don't let this pleading be all in vain;
    You know I love you. Why not forgive?
    For my heart is broken, Oh please say you will.
    Let us agree love, open your heart,
    Don't let that flirt now keep us apart.
    I am so humble and pleading still,
    I don't love none but you, Please say you will.

    Must I plead, must I kneel, and you not forgive?
    Has your heart, love, been sealed? Do you love me still?
    You have always been true. Now why not forgive?
    I don't love none but you, Please say you will. Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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