WHAT'S BOTHERIN' YOU BABY
(Bob Hilliard / Robert Allen)


Jo Stafford - 1957


What's botherin' you, baby
What's makin' you blue
What's botherin' you, baby
I wish I knew

It must be somethin' awful
That's troublin' you
You look as worried as a down-and-outer
Who's got nothin' but a hole in his shoe

You may have heard a story
That I've been foolin' around
What makes you think I'd swim in a sea of trouble
And get myself drowned

Until you tell the story
I won't let you be
What's botherin' you, baby
Is sure a-botherin' me

They but tell of stories
That I've been foolin' around
What makes you think I'd swim in a sea of trouble
And get myself drowned

Until you tell the story
I won't let you be
What's botherin' you, baby
Is sure a-botherin' me

I love you, so what's botherin' you
Is sure a-botherin' me
(Is sure a-botherin' me)



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2017)