Cry Like a Baby
The Box Tops' second-biggest hit, this peaked at #2 in the spring of '68.
One of my all-time favorites. -- AWR
"Cry Like A Baby"
(Dan Penn - Spooner Oldham)
Intro:
4 bars; electric sitar enters bar 3
Bm
Verse 1:
D Em/D D Em/D
A-when I think about the good love you gave me
D Em/D3: (c[D Em/D
I cry like a baby ry like a baby)]
D Em/D D Em/D
Livin' without you is drivin' me crazy
D Em/D3: (c[D
I cry like a baby ry like a baby)]
G
I know now that you're not a plaything
2/4
A G D
Not a toy or a puppet on a string
Break #1:
F#
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bass:
(D)
v v v v v v v v
-------7-6-4-----|-----------------|
---4-7-------7-5-|-454-------------|
-5---------------|-----7-4-5-----4-|
-----------------|-----------557---|
Verse 2:
As I look back on a love so sweet now
I cry like a baby
Every road is a lonely street
I cry like a baby
I know now that you're not a plaything
Not a toy or a puppet on a string
Bridge:
Em
Today we passed on the street
Bm A G7
And you just walked on by
Em
My heart just fell to my feet
Bm A G7
And once again I began to cry
Solo:
(electric sitar):
D Em/D Em/D Em/D
v v v v v v v v v v v v
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
-------7---9-----|b10-b10-b11-b11--|b11b11b11b11----r9-----|
---7-9-----------|-----------------|-----------------------|
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
D Em/D
v v v v v v v v
-----------------|------------------|
-----------------|------------------|
-7-7-7-7---------|------------------|
-----------9-----|-7---7---7-9--s11-|
-----------------|-------9----------|
-----------------|------------------|
F#
v v v v v v v v
-----------------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|
-----11--11--11--|9h11-h11-h11-h11-|
-----------------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|
repeat first four lines of verse 1, w/background vocals
Break #2:
(bass; chords implied by horns):
N.C.
G D
v v v v v v v v
-------7-6-4-----|-----------------|
-5--5--------7-4-|-775-4-----------|
-----5-----------|-------7-5-----4-|
-----------------|-----------5-7---|
v v v v v v v v
-----------7-6-4-|-----------------|
-----4-5-7-------|-7-4-775-4-------|
-5-7-------------|-----------5---5-|
-----------------|-------------7---|
(organ arr. for guitar, bars 3 and 4):
v v v v v v v v
-----------------|-----------------|
-7-----------5---|-3-----3---------|
-----------------|-----------------|
-7-----------5---|-4-----4---------|
-----------------|-----------------|
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Coda:
continue
D Em/D D Em/D
I know now that you're not a plaything
I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now)
As I look back on a love so sweet, now
I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now)
Every road is a lonely street
I cry like a baby (cry like a baby)
My heart just fell to my feet, you know I
Cry like a baby (cry like a baby)
You left the water running, now
(Cry like a baby)
fade
I cry like a baby (cry like a baby)
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers