Lyr Req: Come Back Baby

Subject: Lyrics: Come back baby
From:
Date: 07 Mar 99 - 02:08 PM

Anyone have more lyrics to "Come Back Baby" than I know: Come back baby, baby please don't go. The way I love you, you never will know. Well come back baby, let's talk it over one more time. Thanks...

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Come back baby
From: dwditty
Date: 07 Mar 99 - 02:25 PM

Come along old freight train, mean engineer
Took my baby, left me standing here
Come back, Baby, let's talk it over, one more time

If I could holler, like a mountain jack
I climb this mountain, call my baby back
Come back, Baby, let's talk it over, one more time

There's more, but can't recall at the moment. I'll try later. DW

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Come back baby
From: Roger in Galtimore
Date: 07 Mar 99 - 04:53 PM

Love my baby, tell the world I do,
Don't want nobody, else but you,
Come back baby ....

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Come back baby
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 08 Mar 99 - 06:06 AM

I learned the first line in the verse dwditty as:

It's a long old engine, mean engineer.

I always thought it gave the line some Freudian sexual power.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Come back baby
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 09 Mar 99 - 12:20 AM

Thank you, dwditty and Roger! I was just scanning through my records and found I have a Dave Van Ronk album with Come Back Baby on it! Sure enough, you folks got it right! I think Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins both sang Come Back Baby...I wonder who wrote it? Van Ronk's album lists it as "traditional."

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Come back baby
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:03 PM

Allmusic.com lists 289 recordings of various songs called COME BACK BABY. Some of the people credited with writing blues songs with that title are: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, B. B. Arnold, John Lee Hooker, Champion Jack Dupree, Doctor Ross, Floyd Dixon, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ray Charles, and, of course, "traditional." I haven't even begun to compare all those songs to see which ones probably stem from the same root and which ones are totally original.

The song that Dave Van Ronk recorded was credited to Walter Davis. Walter Davis recorded it in 1940.

I got the following verses from listening to sound samples of Walter Davis. They might not be in the right order, and they probably aren't complete.

You know this world wasn't made in one day.
Can't we talk it over just before you go away?
Come back, baby. Can't we talk it over one more time?

Oh, come back, baby. Please don't go.
Now the way I love you, you never know.
Come back, baby. Can't we talk it over one more time?

My heart is full of sorrow. My eyes is full of tears.
Lord, we been together for so many years.
Come back, baby. Can't we talk it over one more time?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Back Baby
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Nov 07 - 08:10 PM

I just discovered there's another thread called Lyr Req: 'Come back Baby' from Stefan Grossman LP.

It has some discussion of different versions.