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 stillMore than the mulberries on the hillMore than the buds of a May apple tree, I love theeArms have I, strong as the oak, for this occasionLips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasionThee is mine, though I don't know many words of praiseThee pleasures me in a hundred waysPut on your bonnet, your cape, and your gloveAnd come with me, for thee I loveFriendly persuasionThee is mine, though I don't know many words of praiseThee pleasures me in a hundred waysPut on your bonnet, your cape, and your gloveAnd come with me, for thee I loveTranscribed by Robin HoodThese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.
