I know you want to leave me I refuse to let you go // // / / If I have to beg, plead for your sympathy I don't mind, 'cause it means that much to me ain't to proud to beg, sweet darlin' Please don't leave me, don't you go ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby Please don't leave me, don't you go Well I heard a quiet man, half a man With no sense of pride If I have to cry to keep ya I don't mind weepin' If weepin' gonna keep ya by my side ain't to proud to beg, sweet darlin' Please don't leave me, don't you go ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby Please don't leave me, don't you go If I have to sleep on your door step all night and day Just to keep you from walkin' away Let my friends laugh, for this I can stand Just so long as I keep ya Yeah, yeah, I can ain't to proud to beg, sweet darlin' Please don't leave me, don't you go ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby Please don't leave me, don't you go Well your love's so deep in the pit of my heart ev'ry day it grows more and more I'm not ashamed to come and plead with you, baby If pleadin' keeps you from walkin' out the door