Friendly Persuasion (thee I Love) Lyrics

Friendly Persuasion (thee I Love) lyrics

Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)

-Artist: Pat Boone from "Pat Boone's
Greatest Hits"-MCA:MCAC 10885
-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.