Baby Don't Go
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Baby Don't Go:Sonny & Cher.
Top of the charts in 1965.
(Was released a year earlier but didn't hit.)
INTRO:
C Dm7 C
Baby don't go...pretty baby, please don't go.
#1.
C
I never had a mother, I hardly knew my dad,
I've been in town for eighteen years, and you're the
only boy I've had.
Dm7 C
I can't stay, maybe I'll be back some day.
[Refrão] Dm7 C
Baby don't go, pretty baby, please don't go.
Dm7 C
I love you so, pretty baby, please don't go.
#2.
C
I never had no money, I bought at the second-hand store.
The way this old town laughs at me, I just can't take it no more.
Dm7 C
I can't stay, I'm gonna be a lady some day.
[Refrão] Dm7 C
Baby don't go, pretty baby, please don't go.
Dm7 C
I love you so, pretty baby, please don't go.
#3.
C
When I get to the city, my tears will all be dried,
my eyes will look so pretty, no one's gonna know I cried.
Dm7 C
Yes, I'm goin' away, maybe I'll be back someday.
OUTRO:
Dm7 C
Baby don't go, maybe I'll be back someday.
Dm7
Baby don't go...(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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