De laatste in de drietraps-herdenkingsraket voor Scott Walker – naar mijn mening het hoogtepunt van hun R&B-periode, en eigenlijk de afsluiting wat hits betreft. En de beste versie van het nummer, Lorraine Ellison of Sharon Tandy halen zo kermend uit dat ik daarom alleen zou weglopen. Misschien draait het om het sekseverschil. (Ik ben de kwaadste niet, al zeg ik het zelf, dus de dames zullen ook nog wel eens langskomen).
Where did you go
When things went wrong, baby?
Who did you run to and find the shoulder
To lay your head upon?
Baby, wasn’t I there?
Didn’t I take good care of you?
No, no, I can’t believe
You’d really leave
Stay with me, baby
Stay with me, baby
Stay with me, baby
I can’t go on, no, no, no
Who did you touch
When you needed tenderness?
I gave you so much
And in return I found happiness
Baby, what did I do?
Maybe I was too good, just too good for you
No, no, I can’t believe
You’d really leave
Stay with me, baby
Stay with me, baby
Stay with me, baby
Remember
You said, you’d always call and need me
Remember
You said, you’d never ever leave me
Remember, remember
I’m asking you, begging you
Oh, oh, please
Stay with me, baby
Stay with me, baby
Stay with me, baby
I can’t go on, no, no, no
Stay with me, stay with me, baby
Stay with me, stay with me, baby
Stay with me, stay with me, baby
Stay with me, stay with me, baby
Stay with me baby, The Walker Brothers, 1967
Het arrangement en orkest van John Franz maken het ook onmogelijk er een kermnummer van te maken.
