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Walkin' My Baby Back Home

Words and Music by Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert, Harry Rihman - 1930

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1952, played for 12 weeks.

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F7          Bb7	Eb	F7        Bb7	Eb       Eb7
Ab         Abm	Eb         C7	Bbm      D7	Gm
Cdim      F7	Bb         G7	C7        F7	Bb7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Eb	-	-	F7
Bb7	-	-	Eb       Bb7
Eb	-	-	F7
Bb7	-	-	Eb
Gm	C7	Cm	D7
Gm	C7	F9	Bb7
Eb	-	-	F7
Bb7	-	-	Eb   (Bb7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in the key of Eb.

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Verse:

I've an agreeable baby,  Likes ev'ry thing that I do.

Dances most ev'ry night,  Movies are her delight,  I sorta go for them too.

But when movies and dances are done,  That's when I have real fun;

 

Chorus:

Gee, it's great after bein' out late,  Walkin' my baby back home.
Arm in arm over meadow and farm,  Walkin' my baby back home.

We go 'long harmonizing a song,  Or I'm reciting a poem.
Owls go by, and they give me the eye,  Walkin' my baby back home.

We stop for a while, she gives me a smile,  And snuggles her head on my chest.
We start in to pet,  and thats when I get,  Her talcum all over my vest.

After I kinda straighten my tie,  She has to borrow my comb.
Once kiss, then I continue again,  Walkin' my baby back home.
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Watch the WineLand Banjo Band perform "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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