James Brown — Please Please 72 Version

Please, please, please, oh please Honey please, don't go... girl, I love you so Hit me, band! Hey! Just wanna hear you say I, I, oh I Honey please, don't go... girl, I love you so Hey... baby, take my hand I wanna be your lover man, good God almighty Honey please, Lord... I love you so Please, please, please, please, please, please Oh please, don't go... girl, I love you so Hey, hey! Take it down, uh, I got to feel it I got to feel it, I want you to know I got it When I sing this song, I think about a long time ago Singin' this song for the people of Georgia Huh, going down to Alabama, way over there in North Carolina Is it all right, if I go to Texas one time? (yeah) Huh, can I go to South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee? Missouri I love, New Orleans, can I stop at New York? Everybody got the blues sometime, but what I feel Yeeeaaoww, the blues ain't nothing but a feelin' Wait a minute! I remember one day, it was raining, you know So far down south, we didn't have no snow But everybody knew them someplace to go Lookit here: I remember one day, I remember one day We got a group together, called "The Famous Flames" We didn't have a name, so we named it the Famous Flames One of the fellas named Boby Byrd, and that's why he keep on doin' it Huh, yeahh, I remember Johnny Terry, Nafloyd Scott, Nash Knox Wait a minute! Baby Lloyd, just a little boy at that time Tryin' to get into something, didn't have nothin', just like me Now wait a minute, it was so hard for us to get over So hard, so hard for us to get over You know how it is when you're down on your knees Nobody seems to understand Yeahh, you don't want much, you just wanna be a man I remember, look here: I walked up to the Apollo Theater I couldn't go in the front, 'cause didn't nobody know my name I hollered out real loud: this is James Brown, and these are the Flames Everybody shook their head, I walked goin' around to the back Out came Jackie Wilson, I heard him singin' this song He said lonely teardrops, he said lonely teardrops... That is why I love her so And then he backed up, and then I heard him say Please... huh, said get on down And by that time a big, tall cat walked out Dressed well clean, and walkin' real mean He's about to singin' a song, as well as he could I don't believe I can do it like he can Talkin' about the man with the blues I'm talkin' about brother Bobby Bland I 'member him sayin', I believe you remember this He said: Monday's all right, Tuesday's all wrong Huh, when you watch your baby You look up, and she'll be gone... He said uh, he said: it's all right, he said: it's all right And I remember, I remember... I don't believe you know what I'm talkin' about Geez, I wanna know have you ever been in love, brother? Don't say it so low! Have you ever been in love? (yeah!) Jab, I don't think this fella's got his soul together Fred, have you been in love? (yeah!) I wanna know, brother Sinclair? (yeah!) Have you ever been in love? (yeah!) Lookit here! Jimmy Nolan, have you been in love, brother? Are you still in love, brother? Huh, did you put it down? Are you lucky? Everybody don't have that chance and that will to put it down See, most of all, some people get put down But I can remember, I can remember I got the feeling... I wanna know, can I call her one time, Jab? (Holler!) Morgan, is it all right if I call her? (yeah!) I wanna know, is it all right if I call her? (call her, man!) You know, I didn't get my soul walkin' around in the street I got my soul tryin' to get something to eat And it makes me wanna scream, yeah yeah... (yeah!) It make me wanna scream, yeah... (right on, scream!) I wanna know, can I call a love one time? (go!) I believe, Bobby Byrd, if I call her, I believe she'll answer (yeah!) I wanna say it, I wanna say "please..." (what you're sayin') Let me say "please"... can I say "please"? (say it, man!) Can I say "please"? (say it!) Yaaa-haaww! Please, don't leave me, don't leave me, hey! Don't leave me, I want you to know, don't leave me If you've never been there, if you've never never never been there Love would take you there, and you, and you You may be a victim of "he said, he said, she said", other things But I wanna know, I wanna know Is you got your good foot on the ground? (Yeah!) yea-hey! You got your good foot on the ground (yeah) I wanna know, can I scream one more time, Fred? Can I scream one more time? I remember, I remember Bobby say in a song one time He called it, Bobby... do you remember that, Jab? (yeah) I remember the boy screamin' so loud So Bobby, if you don't mind, I wanna sing you a song I wanna sing you a song of the blues, that belong to everybody If my baby don't come back, she gotta call my name Yeaahh, she gotta call my name... don't call me Jim Don't put me in that water, 'cause I can't swim Don't call me Jimmy, I don't wanna know who's that But just call me: oh James, oh James I've done you wrong, yaa-haaww, I've done you wrong You just gotta tell me you've done me wrong And I wanna hear you say, I wanna hear you say "Please, baby..." yaaa-haow, please... yaa-haaa, ow! Feels so good, fellas, I could go on, and all night long (go ahead!) I tell you what, as soon, as soon as we get thru with doin' this thing We better go over there to rap a little bit And while, and while we get it together I wanna, let me, let me bring it down I wanna hum one time: hummmmmmmm... Hummmmmmmm... heeeeee-heeeeee... Hit me band, is it all right? I gotta go, fellas I'm not leavin', I'm not leavin' 'cause I'm tired I'm not leavin' 'cause I'm worn I'm not leavin' 'cause I've paid my dues, and I got the blues And I wanna say: please, oh please, please, oh please Bring it up, HEY! Bring it up, YAA-HAOW! Bring it up, YIIIEEAH! Bring it up! Aahhh, bring it up!