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Please Say You Will

  • Uitgegeven door: M. L. Mantell, 129 North Salina Street te Syracuse, NY
  • Copyright 1895 by M. L. Mantell
  • Oorspronkelijke prijs: 40 cents
  • Aantal pagina's: 4 (excl. covers en extra gratis muziekstukken)

Please Say You Will is het eerst bekende stuk van Scott Joplin. Het stuk is geschreven in de periode dat Scott samen met zijn Texas Medley Quartette rondreisde. Scott begeleide en soleerde op piano en zijn broers Robert en Will Joplin zongen (bariton en tenor).

Mede vanwege goede publiciteit reisde de muziekgroep vooral door het midwesten en oosten van de Verenigde Staten. Tijdens een verblijf in Syracuse, New York kwam Scott in contact met de heer Mantell, een lokale juwelier. Vanwege de in die tijd lucratieve zaken rondom bladmuziek kocht Mantell het nummer 'Please Say You Will' en bracht het in 1895 uit.

Het springerige, waltz-achtige gevoel in het nummer geeft enigzins weer dat die periode in de Verenigde Staten ook wel de 'gay nineties' werden genoemd.

Cover

Cover van 1895:

Tekst

Verse 1: Closed in the parlor we are alone, Happy to be with one that I love. I'll ask you kindly, oh Mamie dove, Do speak just a few words to bind us in love.

I will confess that I have been false, The other girl was really the cause; She is a flirt too, and never still, I don't love none but you, please say you will.

Chorus: Must I plead, must I kneel, and you not forgive? Has your heart, love, been sealed? Do you love me still? You have always been true. Now why not forgive? I don't love none but you, please say you will.

Verse 2: Oh Mamie loved one don't treat me so, You have forsaken, where will I go, Bowed on my knees I pray once again, Forgive me my loved one for I am to blame.

Once you were kind and kissed me so sweet, The other girl has fooled me complete, Now I will live true, why not forgive, I don't love none but you, please say you will.

Chorus: Must I plead, must I kneel, and you not forgive? Has your heart, love, been sealed? Do you love me still? You have always been true. Now why not forgive? I don't love none but you, please say you will.

Verse 3: Now we must part love. I'll ask again, Don't let this pleading be all in vain; You know I love you. Why not forgive? For my heart is broken, Oh please say you will.

Let us agree love, open your heart, Don't let that flirt now keep us apart. I am so humble and pleading still, I don't love none but you, please say you will.

Chorus: Must I plead, must I kneel, and you not forgive? Has your heart, love, been sealed? Do you love me still? You have always been true. Now why not forgive? I don't love none but you, please say you will.

Meer info

  • Cover via Perfessor Bill Edwards: http://www.perfessorbill.com/covers/plesesay.htm
  • MIDI-bestand via Perfessor Bill Edwards: http://www.perfessorbill.com/midi/plesesay.mid
  • Scans van de orginele bladmuziek door Library of Congress, Washington: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200029063/default.html