Where Were You Baby? - (Josh White)
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As recorded by DonMclean
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I looked through every barroom
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And I searched from coast to coast
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You were scarce as low-cost housing
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Baby when I needed you most
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And where were you baby, when my heart went out?
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You left me ba___by, in all this darkness and doubt
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Now I peeked through fancy boudoirs
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And I peeked through window grates
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I only saw Republicans, romancing Southern states
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And where were you baby, when my heart went out?
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You left me ba___by, in all this darkness and doubt
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Now I tried to replace you with a streetwalker named Desire
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But prices up so high, hell I couldn't afford to try her
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It takes you my baby, baby, baby ? to put my body out
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You left me baby, in all___ this darkness and doubt
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But tonight I think I'm gonna take some good advice
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I'm gonna look around and find somebody that's a really nice
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Well perhaps a banker's daughter and if her Papa's a cuss
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Well I hope to do to her what her Papa does to us
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And we'll have fancy shack and a fancy Cadillac
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And she'll be studying to be, a nymphomaniac
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And we'll have a little rye and we'll play a little gin
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We'll have another rye and we'll play another gin
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And then we'll have another rye just to get a little glow
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Have another rye just to make the conversation flow
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And then we'll have another rye and we'll play a little gin
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We'll have another rye and we'll tune some music in
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And then we'll have another gin.... and we'll play a little rye...
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And we'll suddenly realize that we're getting kind of high
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And so we'll turn the lights down low...... to keep the bulbs from getting hot
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And we'll play a little game called .. "Yes?"...."No!" ...
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Why not?
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But tonight I think I'm gonna find me something swell
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So I can wake up in the morning... miserable as hell
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Now when butter costs a dollar, bread costs more than cake
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Come back soon cause, babe, think of what a gal like you could make
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Yes come back baby, baby, baby ? don't ever say that we're through
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Cos this time, pretty baby.. I'd like to walk right out on you!
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Where Were You Baby?
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| Don McLean |
