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 still More than the mulberries on the hill More than the buds of a May apple tree, I love thee Arms have I, strong as the oak, for this occasion Lips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove And come with me, for thee I love Friendly persuasion Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praise Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove And come with me, for thee I love Transcribed by Robin Hood These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.