Pretty Baby (A)
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Key: A
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:

A                        A7
You ask me why I'm always teasing you.
D           Bm7               E7
You hate to have me call you "Pretty Baby"
A
I really thought that I was pleasing you,
           E      B7      E7
For you're just a baby to me.

     E7                              A
Your cunning little dimples and your baby stare,
     E7                         A
Your baby talk and baby walk and curly hair,
     B7
Your baby smile
      E
Makes life worthwhile.
      B7                        E7 D#7E7
You're just as sweet as you can be.

Chorus:

      E7           Bm7
Every body loves a baby
           E7
That’s why I’m in love with you
       A
Pretty baby, pretty baby

        E7              Bm7
And I’d like to be your sister
         E7
brother, dad and mother, too,
       A
Pretty baby, pretty baby

          A7
Won’t you come and let me rock you
      D
In my cradle of love
F#7                      B7  E7
And we’ll cuddle all the time

     E7             Bm7
Oh I want a loving’ baby and it
E7
might as well be you
B7     E       A    E7
pretty baby of mine.

Verse 2:

A                            A7
Your mother said you were the cutest kid.
D          Bm7              E      E7
No wonder, Dearie, that I'm wild a-bout you
A
And all the cunning things you said and did.
       E       B7     E7
Why, I love to fondly recall.

    E7                                  A
And just like Peter Pan it seems you'll always be
   E7                              A
The same sweet cunning little baby dear to me,
    B7              E
And that is why I'm sure that I
     B7                      E7  D#7E7
Will always love you best of all.

Chorus Repeat:

End with:

B7     E7       B7     E7
Pretty baby of, pretty baby of,
B7     E7      A    E7A
pretty baby of mine.


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