A US Top 40 hit in the fall of '68 for the Equals - and yes, that's the
same Eddy Grant who had a huge hit 15 years later with 'Electric Avenue'.
"Baby Come Back"
(Eddy Grant)
Intro:
first bar of chorus riff (w/tremolo); 1-bar drum fill
2X
chorus riff w/band:
(B) (F#)
v v v v v v v v
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Chorus:
BF#
Come back
BF#
Baby, come back
BF#
Baby, come back
BF#
Baby, come back
Verse 1:
(F#)
v v v v v v v v
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(2)-(2)---------- -2---2---2---2---
F# unintelligible
This is the first time today
That you have run away
I'm asking you for the first time
unintelligible
Love me stay (all right)
Hey (all right)
Hey (all right!)
Hey, yeah
repeat chorus
Verse 2:
There ain't no use in you crying
'Cause I'm more hurt than you
I shoulda not been out flirting
But now my love is true
Ooh (all right)
Ooh (OK!)
Ooh, yeah
repeat chorus
Verse 3:
Come back, baby, don't you leave me
Baby, baby, please don't go
Oh, won't you give me a second chance
Baby, I love you so (all right)
Oh (oh, yeah)
unintelligible
Oh
Oh, yeah
Coda:
B F# (repeat as per chorus)
Come back
I said baby, come back
I said baby, come back
Oh won't you please come back
continue to fade
Oh won't you please come back
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers