Album: The Fifties: Complete
Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
-peak Billboard position # 5 in 1956
-competing version by The Four Aces charted at # 45
-title song from the movie starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony
-Perkins, and Marjorie Main
-Words by Paul Francis Webster and Music by Dmitri Tiomkin
-title is an obvious play on words since the film centered on a Quaker family
-Quakers are also known the "Society Of Friends": thus, they can be said to
-be of the "Friendly" Persuasion
Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and still
More than the mulberries on the hill
More than the buds of a May apple tree, I love thee
Arms have I, strong as the oak, for this occasion
Lips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion
Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise
Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways
Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove
And come with me, for thee I love
Friendly persuasion
Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise
Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways
Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove
And come with me, for thee I love
Transcribed by Robin Hood
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets
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