In order to win some tickets from a radio station I have to put together 4-5 songs to go along with my theme of begging. The only two I can come up with right now are “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” (which is perfect) and “Cecilia” (…down on my knees, begging you please) which is ok but there must be better ones out there. The songs will be played on the air, so they have to be something an AAA or AOR type station would have in their library. Definitely no rap, hip-hop or heavy metal. Plain old rock & roll or blues would be good. Can all you kind Dopers help me come up with some more?
And before someone tells me that this isn’t original enough to win, there’s a story behind it that’s going to make it good enough.
Oh…what’s that song where the girl has all these people come up and ask to buy the tickets she has and the chorus is about how she worked 60 hours or something in order to make the money to buy them, but in the end she sells them? That would be a great one but I can’t think of the woman who does it. Might be, or sounds kinda like Suzanne Vega.
The Beatles’ Please Please Me:
Last night I said these words to my girl,
I know you never even try, girl,
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you.
Also, their Oh Darling!:
Oh, darling.
If you leave me,
I’ll never make it alone.
Believe me when I beg you,
Don’t ever leave me alone.
Cheap Trick’s I Want you to Want Me:
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I love you to love me
Im beggin you to beg me
The Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry:
I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It’s too late
And now there’s nothing I can do
Since you’ve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around but it’s you I can’t replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep cryin’, baby, baby, please
Beggin’ Bennie. . .
He’ll borrown anything you got:
A shoe, a lamp, a three-cent stamp or a coffee pot.
He don’t care what.
Beggin’ Bennie,
We’re glad there ain’t many like you.