Aint Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations, guitar chords

Published: 2025-01-20 12:37
Selection chords: Ethan Cooper

Verse:
B                           E
I know you want to leave me;
    B                  E
I refuse to let you go.
             B                  E
If I have to beg, plead for you sympathy;
        B                        E
I donʼt mind, ʼcos it means that much to me.

Chorus:
                  B   E      B
Ainʼt to proud to beg, sweet darlinʼ,
E            B         E         B
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.
B                 E      B     E
Ainʼt to proud to plead, baby, baby,
             B         E         B   E
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.

Verse:
        B                             E
Well, I heard a quiet man, half a man,
B                       E
With no sense of pride.
             B                            E
If I have to cry to keep ya; I donʼt mind weepinʼ,
   B                      F#
If weepinʼ gonna, keep ya by my side.

Chorus:
                  B   E      B
Ainʼt to proud to beg, sweet darlinʼ,
E            B         E         B
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.
B                 E      B     E
Ainʼt to proud to plead, baby, baby,
             B         E         B   E
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.

Verse:
B                                    E
If I have to sleep on your door step,
    B             E        B                          E
All night and day, just to keep you from walkinʼ away.
       B                                   E
Let my friends laugh, for this I can stand,
B                          F#
Just so long as I keep ya; yeah, yeah, I can.

Chorus:
                  B   E      B
Ainʼt to proud to beg, sweet darlinʼ,
E            B         E         B
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.
B                 E      B     E
Ainʼt to proud to plead, baby, baby,
             B         E         B   E
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.

B E x4
F#

Chorus:
                  B   E      B
Ainʼt to proud to beg, sweet darlinʼ,
E            B         E         B
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.
B                 E      B     E
Ainʼt to proud to plead, baby, baby,
             B         E         B   E
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.

Verse:
           B                                     E
Well, your loveʼs so deep in the pit of my heart,
      B                          E
Evʼry day it grows more and more.
    B                                       E
Iʼm not ashamed to come and plead with you, baby,
   B                       F#
If pleadinʼ keeps you from walkinʼ out the door.

Chorus:
                  B   E      B
Ainʼt to proud to beg, sweet darlinʼ,
E             B         E         B
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.
B                  E      B     E
Ainʼt to proud to plead, baby, baby,
             B         E         B   E
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.

                  B   E      B
Ainʼt to proud to beg, sweet darlinʼ,
E             B         E         B
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.
B                  E      B     E
Ainʼt to proud to plead, baby, baby,
             B         E         B   E
Please donʼt leave me; donʼt you go.