WON’T YOU STAY TO TEA?

(Mack Gordon, Harry Revel)


As recorded by:
Ray Noble & His Orchestra
V. Ace Roland & Frances Day
Recorded 31st March 1933



(FD)
Won’t you stay for tea
Take off your coat and hat
Confidentially
We two can sit and chat

(AR)
I sorta feel inclined
To sorta speak my mind
I find I’m falling

(FD)
Won’t you stay to tea
Let’s have your stick and gloves
 
(AR)
It’s so plain to see
Tonight’s the night when love’s
The thing that rules supreme

(FD)
Or is it just a dream I dream
Outside it’s raining, cloud up above

(AR) 
Inside it’s raining 
Nothing but the loveliest love

(FD)
Then won’t you stay to tea
Let’s have your heart and hand

(AR)
You’re so heavenly
I know you’ll understand
How happy we can be 

(Both) 
If you‘ll only stay to tea.




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - January 2014)