Stay

Stay

Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (#1 in 1960), The Hollies, The Four Seasons (#16 in 1964),
Jackson Brown (#20 in 1978), Cyndi Lauper, Dirty Dancing

Key of G
Stay, ahhh just a little bit longer
Please, please, please, please, please
Tell me that you're going to

Now your daddy don't mind
And your Mommy don't mind
If we have another dance, ya
Just one more
One more time

I want you stay, just a little bit longer
Please let me hear you say that you will (say you will)
Won't you place your sweet lips to mine
Won't you say you love me all the time

Oh, oh, oh ya, just a little bit longer
Please, please, please, please, please
Tell me your going to

Come on, come on, come on, stay
Come on, come on, come on, stay
Come on, come on, come on, stay
Come on, come on, come on, stay, my, my, my, my,
Come on, come on, come on, stay

The song was written by Williams in 1953 when he was 15 years old. He had been trying to convince his date not to go home at 10 o'clock as she was supposed to. He lost the argument, but as he was to relate years later, "Like a flood, the words just came to me."

The original recording of "Stay" was the shortest single ever to reach the top of the American record charts at that time, at 1 minute 36 seconds. (According to the record label, the Four Seasons' version (see below) was even shorter, at 1:30, and remains the shortest charting record of all time, although it did not reach #1.)

By 1990, it had sold more than 8 million copies. Its popularity revived when the Dirty Dancing soundtrack included it.

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