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The Box Tops' second-biggest hit, this peaked at #2 in the spring of '68. One of my all-time favorites. -- AWR "Cry Like A Baby" (Dan Penn - Spooner Oldham) Intro: Bm [4 bars; electric sitar enters bar 3] Verse 1:
A-wDhen I think aboutEm/D the gDood love you gaveEm/D me I cDry like a bEm/Daby [3: (cDry like a bEm/Daby)] LDivin' withoutEm/D you is dDrivin' me crEm/Dazy I cDry like a bEm/Daby [3: (cDry like a baby)]
G I know now that you're not a plaything A G [2/4] D Not a toy or a puppet on a string
Break #1: F# / / / / / / / / bass: (D) v v v v v v v v -------7-6-4-----|-----------------| ---4-7-------7-5-|-454-------------| -5---------------|-----7-4-5-----4-| -----------------|-----------557---| Verse 2: As I look back on a love so sweet now I cry like a baby Every road is a lonely street I cry like a baby I know now that you're not a plaything Not a toy or a puppet on a string Bridge:
Em Today we passed on the street Bm And yAou just wG7alked on by Em My heart just fell to my feet Bm And once agAain I beG7gan to cry
Solo: (electric sitar):
Dv v v Em/D v Dv v v Em/D v Dv v v Em/D v -----------------|-----------------|-----------------------| -----------------|-----------------|-----------------------| -------7---9-----|b10-b10-b11-b11--|b11b11b11b11----r9-----| ---7-9-----------|-----------------|-----------------------| -----------------|-----------------|-----------------------| -----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
Dv v v Em/D v Dv v v v -----------------|------------------| -----------------|------------------| -7-7-7-7---------|------------------| -----------9-----|-7---7---7-9--s11-| -----------------|-------9----------| -----------------|------------------|
F#v v v v v v v v -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------| -----11--11--11--|9h11-h11-h11-h11-| -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------|
[repeat first four lines of verse 1, w/background vocals] Break #2: (bass; chords implied by horns):
Gv Dv

N.C.

v v v v v v -------7-6-4-----|-----------------| -5--5--------7-4-|-775-4-----------| -----5-----------|-------7-5-----4-| -----------------|-----------5-7---|
v v v v v v v v -----------7-6-4-|-----------------| -----4-5-7-------|-7-4-775-4-------| -5-7-------------|-----------5---5-| -----------------|-------------7---| (organ arr. for guitar, bars 3 and 4): v v v v v v v v -----------------|-----------------| -7-----------5---|-3-----3---------| -----------------|-----------------| -7-----------5---|-4-----4---------| -----------------|-----------------| -----------------|-----------------| Coda: D Em/D D Em/D [continue] I know now that you're not a plaything I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now) As I look back on a love so sweet, now I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now) Every road is a lonely street I cry like a baby (cry like a baby) My heart just fell to my feet, you know I Cry like a baby (cry like a baby) You left the water running, now (Cry like a baby) I cry like a baby (cry like a baby) [fade] -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers