Pretty Baby 1916

by James Pitt-Payne - 9 Dec 2008
2008

You ask me
why I'm always teasing you,
You hate to have me
call you pretty baby,
I really thought
that I was pleasing you,
for you're just a baby to me.
Your cunning little dimples
and your baby stare,
your baby talk
and baby walk
and curly hair,
your baby smile
makes life worth while,
you're just as sweet
as you can be.

Ev'rybody loves a baby
that's why I'm in love with you,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
and I'd like to be your sister,
brother, dad and mother too,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
Won't you come
and let me rock you
in my cradle of love,
and we'll cuddle all the time,
Oh! I want a lovin' baby
and it might as well be you,
Pretty baby of mine.

Ev'rybody loves a baby
that's why I'm in love with you,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
and I'd like to be your sister,
brother, dad and mother too,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
Won't you come
and let me rock you
in my cradle of love,
and we'll cuddle all the time,
Oh! I want a lovin' baby
and it might as well be you,
Pretty baby of mine.

Your mother says
you were the cutest kid,
no wonder, dearie,
that I'm wild about you,
and all the cunning things
you said and did.
Why, I love to fondly recall,
And just like Peter Pan,
it seems you'll always be
the same sweet, cunning,
little baby dear to me,
and that is why
I'm sure that I
will always love you
best of all.

Ev'rybody loves a baby
that's why I'm in love with you,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
and I'd like to be your sister,
brother, dad and mother too,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
Won't you come
and let me rock you
in my cradle of love,
and we'll cuddle all the time,
Oh! I want a lovin' baby
and it might as well be you,
Pretty baby of mine.

Ev'rybody loves a baby
that's why I'm in love with you,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
and I'd like to be your sister,
brother, dad and mother too,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby,
Won't you come
and let me rock you
in my cradle of love,
and we'll cuddle all the time,
Oh! I want a lovin' baby
and it might as well be you,
Pretty baby of mine.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Pretty Baby 1916
Song
Music by Tony Jackson & Egbert van Alstyne
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
© MCMXVI by Jerome H. Remick & Co. - New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 9 December 2008 at 22.45
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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