Please Don’t Go – Stevie Wonder Song Chord/Tab and Lyric

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from ‘Fulfillingness’ First Finale’ (1974)

Intro:

G G6 Gmaj7 G6 (x2)

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Verse 1:

Please don’t go, 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 leave, baby, please,
If you should leave; my poor heart would grieve.
So I say; nay, nay, nay,
Baby, please stay.

Chorus 1:

And I’ll do any-thing you want me to,
If you promise that you won’t leave to-night.
‘Cos I’ll break down and cry a river of tears,
With just the thought of you, not here in my life.

Verse 3:

Please don’t go, 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…

Harmonica Solo:

G G6 Gmaj7 C7, C Cmaj7 F7
G Gmaj7 D7sus D7, G

Chorus 2:

And I’ll do any-thing you want me to,
If you promise that you won’t leave to-night.

‘Cos I’ll break down and cry a river of tears,
With just the thought of you, not here in my life.

KEY CHANGE

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Verse 4:

Please don’t go, don’t say bye.
Tell me why, baby; do you wanna make me cry?
Please, please stay, oh, no no, no no;
I’m gonna try, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Verse 5:

So baby, please don’t leave,
Don’t leave Steve,
If you leave baby;
My poor heart would grieve.
So I say; yeah, yeah, yeah, don’t go…

Coda:

Don’t go, baby, don’t go, baby,
Don’t go, baby, don’t go, baby.
Don’t go, baby, don’t go, baby,
Don’t go, baby, don’t go, baby.

Don’t go, baby, darling, don’t leave me, baby.
Woah A-woah A-woah, woah A-woah A-woah, no, baby.

Don’t leave me baby,
Yeah baby, don’t get on that aeroplane.
Hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me...

Outro:

Cryin’… for your lovin’ in the midnight hour,
Cryin’… for your lovin’ in the morning, I was…
Don’t go, baby, hear me cryin’, oh no, oh no…

(Fade)

CHORD DIAGRAMS:

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