The Monkees – I Prithee Do Not Ask For Love (Guitar)

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(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.
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And is it so, once more thou art returning?

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Hast thou lost thy way as once before?

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I warned thee more than many times, thus would
it be.
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I shall not be thy refuge once more.
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Thou makest me free then soon thou makest demands 

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on me.

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And I am not thy love, thou workest in me, slavery.

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But I shan't hear thee as before.

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I prithee, do not ask for love once more.
INTERLUDE: Gbm Bm Gbm Bm Gbm #2.
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So, go thy way, and soon I shall go likewise.

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And if thy path be high, then be mine low.

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Behold my footsteps in the sand, but follow not.

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For soon they will be covered with snow.
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Thou makest me free then soon thou makest demands 

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on me.

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And I am not thy love, thou workest in me, slavery.

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But I shan't hear thee as before.

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I prithee, do not ask for love once more.
OUTRO:
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I prithee, do not ask for love once more.
...Gbm Bm Gbm Bm Gbm.. A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.