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Blake Shelton - The Baby
Album: The Dreamer
Writers: Harley Allen/Michael White
**CAPO 2** (or see below for no capo chords)
Verse 1:
D D/F# G A D
My brother said that I, was rotten to the core
D D/F# G G D/F# Em7 A
I was the youngest child, so I got by with more
D D/F# G A D
I guess she was tired by, the time I came along
D D/F# G G D/F# Em7 A
She'd laugh until she cried, I could do no wrong
Em7 A D
She would always save me, because I was her baby
Chorus 1:
Bm G
I worked a factory in Ohio, a shrimp boat in the Bayou
D A
I drove a truck in Birmingham
Bm G
Turned 21 in Cincinnati, I called home to mom and daddy
D A
I said "Your boy is now a man."
Em7 A D
She said "I don't care if you're 80, you'll always be my baby."
Verse 2:
She loved that photograph, of our whole family
She'd always point us out, for all her friends to see
That's Greg he's doing great, he really loves his job
And Ronnie with his 2 kids, how 'bout that wife he's got
And that one's kinda crazy, but that one is my baby
Chorus 2:
I got a call in Alabama, said come on home to Louisiana
And come as fast as you can fly
Cause your momma really needs you, and says she's got to see you
She might not make it through the night
The whole way I drove 80, so she could see her baby
Chorus 3:
She looked like she was sleepin', and my family had been weepin'
By the time that I got to her side
And I knew that she'd been taken, and my heart it was breakin'
I never got to say goodbye
I softly kissed that lady, and cried just like a baby
*Note* the G D/F# Em7 progression in the verse is a little walkdown,
one strum on each chord to the Em7
If you want to play without a capo replace the chords listed with these:
A ----> B x24442
Bm ---> C#m x46654
D ----> E 022100
D/F#--> E/G# 422100
Em7---> F#m7 242222
G ----> A x02220
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Anyone got a secret to playing this without crying during the last verse? It kind of screws up my singing. -bbarker | 5/4/2003 | really, i cant play this without getting chills or crying -petunia | 5/20/2003 | I can't do it. But then again, I'm not trying to. -reeldeal4 | 5/23/2003 | Kinda put your heart in your throat don't it? -WayneXG95 | 7/10/2003 | I have no problems doing tear jerkers, I guess I am just heartless...LoL Try not to think about the words of the song, and just sing it, thats the best way I guess -Cspirits | 11/2/2003 | i cry everytime lol my dad said he doesn't think he could play because his mom died in september and he was her baby!! -skittles26 | 2/4/2004 | My cousin died in a 4-wheeler accident on his 17 and they played it at his funeral because it was his favorite song. I usually don't have trouble with tear jerkers but man; It sure is hard
-bwbucs23 | 7/9/2004 | could someone tab out this song please -BrettBueltel | 8/3/2004 | yes a tab would be sweet -nicktray48 | 9/1/2004 | lol think about something happy during the last verse or somethin always helps me lol
-AcousticCowboy1 | 12/8/2004 | Man, don't even try to sing it without the emotion coming through. The emotion will show up in your voice and carry over to everyone in the audience and make you seem the better performer as well. -jclpn | 1/11/2005 | -cruzan_rum | 2/19/2005 |
does anyone know the ending? its same as the intro ,but i want it picked. i sang this song at a karoake bar, everyone loved it, good song to add in ur songbook, it makes me cry all the time
-cruzan_rum | 2/19/2005 | I am actually from Cincinnati, OH so for whatever reason this song hits me from that point on.
I found that to get past emotional songs, is just to learn them and play them over....and over....and over....and over....and over....and...well you get the picture. By the time you learn it and play it well you are happy that you can play it and it doesn't seem to get you that bad. It was like that for me with Darius Ruckers' It Won't Be Like This, as well as Brad Paisley's Waitin on a Woman for me anyway.
I am going to learn this though come hell or high water and play it so everyone else cries and not me. Come to think of it every time I sing people cry, but that's for a whole different reason....PLEASE STOP!!! -jhempel24 | 9/20/2008 |
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