BABY PLEASE DON'T GO
`Big' Joe Williams

`Big' Joe Williams
Muddy Waters and many, many more


Baby, please don't go 
Baby, please don't go 
Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans 
You know I love you so 
Before I be your dog 
Before I be your dog 
Before I be your dog 
I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone 

Turn your lamp down low 
Turn your lamp down low 
Turn your lamp down low 
I beg you all night long, baby, please don't go 

You brought me way down here 
You brought me way down here 
You brought me way down here 
'bout to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog 

Baby, please don't go 
Baby, please don't go 
Baby, please don't go, back the New Orleans 
I beg you all night long 

Before I be your dog 
Before I be your dog 
Before I be your dog 
I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone 

You know your man down gone 
You know your man down gone 
You know your man down gone 
To the country farm, with all the shackles on


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BABY PLEASE DON'T GO
Willie & The Poor Boys


Baby, Please Don't Go

Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go

When the man done gone
When the man done gone
When the man done gone down the county farm
He got the shackles on
Baby please don't go
Don't leave me

I'll be a dog
I'll be a dog
I'll be a dog kiss your way down here
When you walk along
Baby please don't go

Why must you leave me
Lying on my back
Going across the other side of the track
Found yourself a new man I know
So baby please don't go
Baby please don't go

Oh please, please don't leave me
I don't want to be left alone baby
Oh don't go, don't go, don't go


(Contributed by Frank DiSalle - December 2003)