...PLEASE DON'T GO... by Stevie Wonder
---------------------.................

*from 'Fulfillingness' First Finale' (1974)*


Intro:

       (x2)

        
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 
,  ooh.
        
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 
,  ooh.

Verse 1:

             
Please don't g

           
o, no, no, no.
          
If you go;  I'

    
ll be sad and 

blue.
        
So I say; no, 

      
no, no,
             
Don't go a-way

     
, oh no.

Verse 2:

              
Please don't l

         
eave, baby, pl

  
ease,
              
If you should 

        
leave; my poor

 
 heart would g

rieve.
        
So I say; nay,

        
 nay, nay,    

            
baby, please s

tay.

Chorus 1:

            
And I'll do an

         
y-thing you wa


nt me to,
           
 If you promis

        
e that you won

            
't leave to-ni

   
ght.
              
'Cos I'll brea

         
k down and cry

   
 a river of te

ars,
            
With just the 

         
thought of you

           
, not here in 

     
my life.

Verse 3:

             
Please don't g

           
o, no, no, no.
          
If you go;  I'

    
ll be sad and 

blue.
        
So I say; no, 

      
no, no,
             
Don't go a-way

       
, yeah, baby, 

      
baby, baby...

Solo:

      ,     
      , 

Chorus 2:

            
And I'll do an

         
y-thing you wa


nt me to,
           
 If you promis

        
e that you won

            
't leave to-ni

   
ght.
              
'Cos I'll brea

         
k down and cry

   
 a river of te

ars,
            
With just the 

         
thought of you

           
, not here in 

      
my life.

*KEY CHANGE*
------------

Verse 4:

             
Please don't g

#         
o, don't say b

#  
ye.
            
Tell me why, b

        
aby; do you wa

    
nna make me cr

y?
              
Please, please

            
 stay, oh, no 

 
no, no no;
            
I'm gonna try,

          
 yeah, yeah, y

#  
eah.

Verse 5:

              
So baby, pleas

            
e don't leave,

          
 don't leave S

#  
teve,
            
If you leave b

       
aby; my poor h

#
eart would gri

eve.
            
So I say; yeah

        
, yeah, yeah, 

  
   don't go...

Coda:

            
 Don't go, bab

           
y, don't go, b

        
aby, don't go,

       
 baby, don't g

o, baby.
            
 Don't go, bab

           
y, don't go, b

        
aby, don't go,

       
 baby, don't g

o, baby.

            
 Don't go, bab

         
y, darling, do

          
n't leave me, 


baby.
                                 
 Woah -woah -woah, woah -woah -woah, no, baby.

              
Don't leave me

   
 baby,    yeah

 baby, don't g

et on that aer

oplane.
         
 Hear me, hear

        
 me, hear me, 

         
hear me...

Outro:

           
 Cryin'... for

      
 your lovin' i

n the midnight

 hour,
           
 Cryin'... for

      
 your lovin' i

n the morning,

 I was...
           
 Don't go, bab

           
y, hear me cry

in', oh no, oh

 no...

(Fade)


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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)