Marvin Gaye – Please Stay (Guitar)

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For the bassline for this, see: https://basslessons.be/transcriptions.php?i=985 Bvs shown in brackets [Chorus]
F#9/G#             | F#                  |
Baby, please stay             don't go a-

D#m7                    | F#9/G#                  |
way, baby (please stay)   please stay

D#m7                        | G#7                   |
          please stay, baby                don't go a-
[Stay],
C#maj7               | C#maj7                                 |
way                                     I'm askin' you, darlin'
(Don't go away) (don't go away) [Verse]
F#9/G#                     | F#               |
Please stay, (please stay), please      don't

D#m7              | F#9/G#          |
Go away, baby,      ooh

D#m7                    |
Please stay baby, please
(Stay)
G#7           |C#maj7              |
     Don't go away, no

C#maj7                           |
I couldn't stand it, darlin', ooh
[Verse]
G#7sus4            F#
I won't be able to sleep peacefully in

D#m7              G#7                     |C#maj7              |
bed without you beside me darlin', darlin'     anymore

C#maj7          | G#7sus4          F#            |
  No sugar, no,   I won't be warm and secure oh

D#m7        G#7         |C#maj7              |
baby, baby, baby, like I was before

C#maj7             |
     Oh,     baby

G#7sus4       F#                |  D#m7        G#7                       |
I'll just lie tossin' and turnin', baby, baby, baby (Tossing and turning)

C#maj7            | C#maj7             |
All night long,                 ooh-ooh

G#7sus4          F#            |
Scared that if I close my eyes

D#m7                G#              | C#maj7            |
When I got ready to wake up, I might find you gone

C#maj7              |
Ooh-ooh-ooh
[Chorus]
F#9/G#            | F#                     |
Baby, please stay               Don't go a-

D#m7                               | F#9/G#                          |
way, baby                please stay              'cause I could never
(Don't go away), (please stay)
D#m7                 |G#7                      |
Find   nobody           Make me feel this
(Stay, stay, stay)
C#maj7               | C#maj7                 |
way        nah,     sugar,          ooh   for
(Don't go away), (She'll stay) [Verse]
G#7sus4   F#         |D#m7   G#7    | C#maj7           |
I never     felt this way         be-fore

C#maj7                       |
No, no sugar, you did it  oh

G#7sus4   F#      |D#m7     G#7         | C#maj7                |
I    never  felt so good,       honey, before (Baby, oh, oh)

C#maj7                  |
Talk my head in, my, oh,

G#7sus4   F#       |D#m7   G#7      | C#maj7          |
I never     felt so good,   oh,   before          oh
( Baby, oh, oh)
C#maj7                                   |
Sugar, 'cause you dig it, you got it, oh

G#7sus4     F#         |D#m7   G#7     | C#maj7              |
I have never   felt so good       be -   fore            oh I
(Baby, oh, oh)
C#maj7                         |
Love you,   I just love you, oh
(oh) [Outro]
G#7sus4       F#         |D#m7           G#7      | C#maj7                 |C#maj7                         |
I have never     felt so good        ooh      be -fore                oh I  love you,   I just love you, oh
(I have never come this way before baby, oh, oh oh)
G#7sus4       F#          |D#m7   G#7             | C#maj7          | C#maj7            |
I have never      felt so good           ooh  be - fore                              oh
(I have never come this way before) (Baby, oh,oh oh)
G#7sus4   F#         |D#m7   G#7             | C#maj7            | C#maj7            |
Do, do [vocalise]
(I could never come, come this way be- fore), baby, oh, oh (Oh)
G#7sus4   F#         |D#m7   G#7     | C#maj7            | C#maj7            |
Do do [vocalise]
(I could never come, come this way before) baby, oh, oh