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Walkin' My Baby Back Home
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-Artist: Nat King Cole
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-peak Billboard position #8 in 1952
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-Words and Music by Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert in 1930
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-charted in 1931 by Nick Lucas (#8), Ted Weems (also #8), the Charleston
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-Chasers (#15), and Lee Morse (#18).
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-also charted in 1952 by Johnnie Ray at # 4
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-title song from the 1953 film starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy
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-Hackett, and Scatman Crothers
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Gee, it's great after bein' out late
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Walkin' my baby back home
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Arm in arm over meadow and farm
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Walkin' my baby back home
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We go 'long harmonizing a song
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Or I'm recitin' a poem
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Owls go by and they give me the eye
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Walkin' my baby back home
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We stop for a while, she gives me a smile
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And snuggles her head on my chest
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We start in to pet and that's when I get
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Her talcum all over my vest
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After I kinda straighten my tie
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She has to borrow my comb
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Once kiss then I continue again
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Walkin' my baby back home
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She's 'fraid of the dark so I have to park
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Outside of her door till it's light
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She says if I try to kiss her she'll cry
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I dry her tears all through the night
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Hand in hand to a barbecue stand
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Right from her doorway we roam
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Eats and then it's a pleasure again
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Walkin' my baby
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Talkin' my baby
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Lovin' my baby
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I don't mean maybe
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Walkin My Baby Back Home
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| Johnnie Ray |
