(I Prithee)Do Not Ask For Love:The Monkees.
Album - More Of The Monkees - #1 on BB Hot
100 on COLGEMS Records in 1967.
(I prithee means 'I pray you' or 'I beg of
you.')
INTRO: Gbm
#1.
Gbm Bm Gbm
And is it so, once more thou art returning?
Gbm Bm Gbm
Hast thou lost thy way as once before?
Bm
I warned thee more than many times, thus would
it be.
Gbm Bm Db
I shall not be thy refuge once more.
CHORUS:
Bm E A
Thou makest me free then soon thou makest demands
Gbm
on me.
Bm E A Db
And I am not thy love, thou workest in me, slavery.
Gbm E Bm
But I shan't hear thee as before.
Gbm Db Gbm
I prithee, do not ask for love once more.
INTERLUDE: Gbm Bm Gbm Bm Gbm
#2.
Gbm Bm Gbm
So, go thy way, and soon I shall go likewise.
Gbm Bm Gbm
And if thy path be high, then be mine low.
Bm
Behold my footsteps in the sand, but follow not.
Db Gbm Bm Db
For soon they will be covered with snow.
CHORUS:
Bm E A
Thou makest me free then soon thou makest demands
Gbm
on me.
Bm E A Db
And I am not thy love, thou workest in me, slavery.
Gbm E Bm
But I shan't hear thee as before.
Gbm Db Gbm
I prithee, do not ask for love once more.
OUTRO:
Gbm Db Gbm
I prithee, do not ask for love once more.
...Gbm Bm Gbm Bm Gbm..
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.