Carl Perkins - Everybodys trying to be my baby
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Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby:Carl Perkins.
Top of the charts in 1956. The Beatles did
this song again with Perkins in 1964.
(The original Sun Records recording was G C D.
On later recordings it was done in E.)
#1.
CWell, they took some honey from a tree,
Dressed it up and they C7called it me.
FEverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
CEverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
GEverybody's G7tryin' to be my baby, Cnow.
#2.
CI woke up last night, half past four,
fifteen women C7knockin' at my door.
FEverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
CEverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
GEverybody's G7tryin' to be my baby, Cnow.
#3.
CWent out last night, didn't stay late,
before I'm home I had C7nineteen dates.
FEverybody's tryin' to be my baby.
CEverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
GEverybody's G7tryin' to be my baby, Cnow.
#4.
CMe and my gal sittin' in the shade,
talkin' 'bout the money that C7she has made.
And Feverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
Ceverybody's tryin' to be my baby.
GEverybody's G7tryin' to be my baby, Cnow.
#5.
CWell, they took some honey from a tree,
Dressed it up and they C7called it me.
FEverybody's tryin' to be my baby,
CEverybody's tryin' to be my baby.
GEverybody's G7tryin' to be my baby, Cnow.(Verse x2)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.