Pretty Baby (song)
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Pretty Baby is an old song written by Tony Jackson during the Ragtime era.
Here is the way it was covered by early recording star Billy Murray in 1916:
Verse 1
- You ask me why I'm always teasing you
- You hate to have me call you Pretty Baby
- I really thought that I was pleasing you
- For you're just a baby to me
- Your cunning little dimples and your baby stare
- Your baby talk and baby walk and curly hair
- Your baby smile
- Makes life worthwhile
- You're just as sweet as you can be
Verse 2
- Your mother said you were the cutest kid
- No wonder, Dearie, that I'm wild about you
- And all the cunning things you said and did
- Why, I love to fondly recall
- And just like Peter Pan it seems you'll always be
- The same sweet cunning little baby dear to me
- And that is why
- I'm sure that I
- Will always love you best of all
Chorus
- Everybody loves a baby that's why I'm in love with you
- Pretty baby, pretty baby
- And I'd like to be your sister, brother, dad and mother too
- Pretty baby, pretty baby
- Won't you come and let me rock you in my cradle of love
- And we'll cuddle all the time
- Oh, I want a lovin' baby, and it might as well be you
- Pretty baby of mine
[edit] Reference
Billy Murray Anthology: The Denver Nightingale, Archeophone Records, 2002
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