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 stillmore than the mulberries on the hillmore than the buds of a may apple tree, i love theearms have i, strong as the oak, for this occasionlips have i, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasionthee is mine, though i don't know many words of praisethee pleasures me in a hundred waysput on your bonnet, your cape, and your gloveand come with me, for thee i love<instrumental interlude>friendly persuasionthee is mine, though i don't know many words of praisethee pleasures me in a hundred waysput on your bonnet, your cape, and your gloveand come with me, for thee i lovetranscribed by robin hoodthese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.