B-a-b-y chords by Carla Thomas

Chords with lyrics

B-A-B-Y:Carla Thomas.
14 on BB Hot 100
on STAX Records in 1966.


INTRO: Eb MajorEb AbAb Eb MajorEb C minorCm Eb MajorEb

#1.
Eb MajorEb     AbAb Eb MajorEb    EbmEbm       Eb MajorEb
Baby, ooh, ba-by, I loooove to call you baby.
EbmEbm       Eb MajorEb   EbmEbm
Baby, ooh, ooh, baby, I love for you to
    Eb MajorEb
call me baby.
     AbAb
When you squeeze me real tight, you make
GbGb      AbAb
wrong things right.
BbmBbm             B minorBm
And I can't stop loving you, and I won't
   Bb majorBb
stop courting you.

#2.
Eb MajorEb      AbAb Eb MajorEb    EbmEbm
Baby, (baby) oh, baby, you look so good to me,
AbAb Eb MajorEb
ba-by.
EbmEbm Eb MajorEb
Ba--by, ooh, baby, you are so good to me, baby.
     AbAb
Just one look in your eyes and my temperature

goes sky high.
 BbmBbm
I weep for you and can't help it.
B minorBm           Bb majorBb
You know I really don't want to help it.

CHORUS:
 Eb MajorEb  AbAb DbDb  Eb MajorEb EbmEbm  DbDb
(B-A-B-Y, baby..B--A-B-Y, baby.)


BRIDGE:
C minorCm              FF  Gm7Gm7
Whenever the sun don't shine, you go out to
FF    C minorCm
light my mind.
                 FF
Then I get real close to you and your sweet
Gm7Gm7  Bb majorBb
kisses see me through.

INTERLUDE: EbmEbm AbAb EbmEbm AbAb DbDb

#3.
AbAb   Eb MajorEb        AbAb Eb MajorEb
I said, baby, (baby) ooh, ba-by, you look so
    AbAb Eb MajorEb
good to me, baby.
Eb MajorEb   EbmEbm    AbAb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb  Eb MajorEb
Baby, (baby) ooh, ba--by, how I love for you to
     AbAb Eb MajorEb
call me, ba--by.
     AbAb       DbDb AbAb    Eb MajorEb    AbAb
When you squeeze me real ti-ght, you know you make
       DbDb AbAb
wrong things ri-ght.
BbmBbm             B minorBm
And I can't stop loving you, and I won't
   Bb majorBb
stop courting you.

OUTRO:
E MajorE        A augmentedA E MajorE        A augmentedA  DmDm E MajorE
Baby (baby) oh, ba-by, please don't weep my (B-A-B-Y,

baby.)
E MajorE            A augmentedA    D MajorD     E MajorE
I like it, I like it, I like to court you (B-A-B-Y,

baby.)
            D MajorD
I like it, I like it, I like it..(Fade.)


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.