Pretty Baby (C)
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Key: C
Music by Tony Jackson and Egbert Van Alstyne
Copyright 1916

File Created 11/27/2014
File Edited 06/05/2019

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Verse 1:

C                        C7
You ask me why I'm always teasing you.
F           Dm7               G7
You hate to have me call you "Pretty Baby"
C
I really thought that I was pleasing you,
           G      D7      G7
For you're just a baby to me.

     G7                              C
Your cunning little dimples and your baby stare,
     G7                         C
Your baby talk and baby walk and curly hair,
     D7
Your baby smile
      G
Makes life worthwhile.
      D7                        G7 Gb7G7
You're just as sweet as you can be.

Chorus:

      G7           Dm7
Every body loves a baby
           G7
That’s why I’m in love with you
       C
Pretty baby, pretty baby

        G7              Dm7
And I’d like to be your sister
         G7
brother, dad and mother, too,
       C
Pretty baby, pretty baby

          C7
Won’t you come and let me rock you
      F
In my cradle of love
A7                       D7  G7
And we’ll cuddle all the time

     G7             Dm7
Oh I want a loving’ baby and it
G7
might as well be you
D7     G       C    G7
pretty baby of mine.

Verse 2:

C                            C7
Your mother said you were the cutest kid.
F          Dm7              G      G7
No wonder, Dearie, that I'm wild a-bout you
C
And all the cunning things you said and did.
       G       D7     G7
Why, I love to fondly recall.

    G7                                  C
And just like Peter Pan it seems you'll always be
   G7                              C
The same sweet cunning little baby dear to me,
    D7              G
And that is why I'm sure that I
     D7                      G7  Gb7G7
Will always love you best of all.

Chorus Repeat:

End with:

D7     G7       D7     G7
Pretty baby of, pretty baby of,
D7     G7      C    G7C
pretty baby of mine.


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