Pat Boone Lyrics

Album: Unknown

For My Good Fortune Lyrics

Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)

-Artist: Pat Boone from "Pat Boone's Greatest Hits"-MCA:MCAC 10885

-peak Billboard position # 5 in 1956

-competing version by The Four Aces charted at # 45

]-title song from the movie starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony

-Perkins, and Marjorie Main

-Words by Paul Francis Webster and Music by Dmitri Tiomkin

-title is an obvious play on words since the film centered on a Quaker family

-Quakers are also known the "Society Of Friends": thus, they can be said to

-be of the "Friendly" Persuasion.


Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and still

More than the mulberries on the hill

More than the buds of a May apple tree, I love thee

Arms have I, strong as the oak, for this occasion

Lips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion

Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise

Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways

Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove

And come with me, for thee I love


Friendly persuasion

Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise

Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways

Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove

And come with me, for thee I love


Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above

and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet

music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.