Composers: Norman
Whitfield & Eddie Holland Original
performers: The
Temptations (1966)
Recording date: November
1973 & April-May 1974
Recording locations: Musicland
Studios, Munich, West Germany; Rolling Stones Mobile Unit,
Mick Jagger's home, Newbury,
England; & Island Recording Studios, London
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins
Chief engineers:
Keith
Harwood & Andy Johns
Performed onstage: 1975-76, 2002-03, 2005-07
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards (incl. solo) & Mick Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Harmony vocal: Keith
Richards
Backing vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Billy
Preston
Congas: Ray
Cooper
Cowbell: Ed
Leach
I know you want to leave me
But I refuse to let you go
If I have to beg and plead for sympathy
I don't mind 'cause it mean that much to me
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darling
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Well I heard a quiet man is half a man
With no sense of pride
If I have to cry to keep you, I don't mind
weeping
If weeping's going to keep you by my side
If I have to sleep on your door step all night
and day
Just to keep you from walking away
Let my friends laugh, even this I can stand
Cause I want to keep you - yeah, yeah, I can
Well your love's so deep in the pit of my heart
Every day it grows more and more
I'm not ashamed to come and plead with you,
baby
If pleading keeping you from walking out the
door
Sweet darling, don't you go
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darling
Ain't too proud, ain't too proud to get down
on my knees
Baby, please, don't you go
Ain't too proud, ain't too proud to beg...