Carla Thomas - B-A-B-Y

      B-A-B-Y:Carla Thomas.
#3 on R&B and #14 on BB Hot 100
on STAX Records in 1966.


INTRO: Eb Ab Eb Cm Eb

#1.
Eb         Ab Eb       Ebm              Eb
Baby, ooh, ba-by, I loooove to call you baby.
Ebm             Eb      Ebm
Baby, ooh, ooh, baby, I love for you to 
        Eb
call me baby.
         Ab        
When you squeeze me real tight, you make 
Gb           Ab
wrong things right.
Bbm                          Bm
And I can't stop loving you, and I won't 
     Bb
stop courting you.

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

goes sky high.
  Bbm
I weep for you and can't help it.
Bm                      Bb
You know I really don't want to help it.

CHORUS:
 Eb    Ab Db    Eb Ebm    Db
(B-A-B-Y, baby..B--A-B-Y, baby.)


BRIDGE:
Cm                            F   Gm7
Whenever the sun don't shine, you go out to 
F        Cm
light my mind.
                                 F
Then I get real close to you and your sweet 
Gm7    Bb
kisses see me through.


INTERLUDE: Ebm Ab Ebm Ab Db

#3.
Ab      Eb                Ab Eb                    
I said, baby, (baby) ooh, ba-by, you look so 
        Ab  Eb
good to me, baby.
Eb     Ebm        Ab  Eb  Bb    Eb
Baby, (baby) ooh, ba--by, how I love for you to 
         Ab  Eb
call me, ba--by.
         Ab              Db Ab       Eb       Ab
When you squeeze me real ti-ght, you know you make
             Db Ab
wrong things ri-ght.
Bbm                          Bm
And I can't stop loving you, and I won't 
     Bb
stop courting you.

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

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

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



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.