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My Baby, My Baby
My Baby, My Baby

I know this little girl she’s quite a picture
I do my very best oh boy to keep her
She’s got what it takes to warm my soul
Maybe it’s because she wears no makeup
Doesn’t think she’s got the legs that shape up
She can’t rock but boy she can roll
I know I got

My Baby, My Baby

She’s all that I need
Hanging around
She’s all I need
She makes my world feel so good to me
We turn on in the most peculiar places
Many people turn with bowed red faces
We don’t care what they say all the same

I got this little girl she’s quite a picture
Ain’t no-one anywhere ever gonna steal her
She has won my heart I love her so

Well I was pretty young
She was young and pretty
I was so naive
It was such a pity
I said now baby don’t you waste your time
Just cryin’ for me
I gotta go away for a while
And you can be free

And baby, baby, it’s my turn to cry
Baby, baby, it’s my turn to cry

I found a job
And you found a lover
He’d been married before
But you needed the shelter
When I told you to have a good time
I think you took me all wrong
Next thing I know you’re engaged
And a kid is coming along

(I’m sittin’ at home, watchin’ the walls
My mouth is parched, my stomach’s tight
You said goodbye, you turned you back
I guess you know what’s right . . .
I’m sittin’ at home, watchin’ the walls
Birdcage mouth, I lost the fight
You said goodbye, you turned you back
I guess you know what’s right . . .)

I found a job
And you found a lover
He’d been married before
But you needed the shelter

And baby, baby, it’s my turn to cry
Baby, baby, it’s my turn to cry

Lay down your head and weep mama
Lay down next to me
Till you cross the borders of sleep mama
Lay down next to me
Wish no words of sorrow
Nor whisper words of spite
Let the darkness in your heart
Melt into this night

Oh-oh Never Before, Never Before did it break like that
Oh-oh Never Before, Never Before did it feel so bad

Drink some more of my wine mama
Take some more of my bread
There’s a million songs to be sung
But not a word to be said
If I call on the angel of mercy
If I call on the angel of light
I’m way outa line but there ain’t much time
Storm gonna break tonight

Lay down your head and weep mama
Lay down next to me
Till you cross the borders of sleep mama
Lay down next to me
Send a prayer up above to the pure white dove
Flying so high
I think the angel of mercy
Must have heard you cry

She just jumped on a plane
Paid no attention to me
Gave me no notice
But her goodbyes sure were sweet
Said she’s gonna write
Maybe call me up
She checked her bags
And then she broke my heart
She kissed my cheek
And told me not to keep in touch

I said the Rising Sun just stole my girl away
The Rising Sun just stole my girl away
The Rising Sun just stole my girl
I’m gonna catch a plane and steal her back again
The Rising Sun just stole my girl away

Now we’re apart
I think about her everyday
Well the scuffle of little feet
All round the bed
I’m gettin’ no cards, gettin’ no mail
Tokyo Rose is on the radio
If she don’t come home
I know that’s where I’m gonna go

They’re buying our beaches
Sellin’ transistors
Them little folk look real big
If they think that they can take her away
I’m gonna steal her back again . . . Shake!

I said the Rising Sun just stole my girl away
The Rising Sun just stole my girl away
The Rising Sun just stole my girl
Gonna catch a plane and steal her back again
The Rising Sun just stole my girl away

Standing on the outside lookin’ in
Standing on the outside lookin’ in
Oh-oh, I never strayed outside the law
Standing on the outside lookin’ in
Room full of money and the born to win
No amount of work’s gonna get me through the door
When I go walkin’ down Bluewater Bay
Surface in the city at the end of the day
Oh-oh, I got a bad case of the benz
Standing on the sidewalk you can see
Somebody everybody wants to be
They got the means to justify every end
I had a friend broke through illegally
Pulled a job on a small-town T.A.B.
Five grand down on her own piece of Eden
And I know . . .
And I know . . .

The first thing I do when I get into town
Is buy a twenty-two and cut the whole thing down
No amount of work’s gonna buy my way to freedom

I’m on the outside lookin’ in
Standing on the outside lookin’ in
Oh Yeah!