Baby Face
Lyrics by Benny Davis
Key: F
Music by Harry Akst
Copyright 1926

Chords and Lyrics Provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 11/24/2014
File Updated 07/26/2022

Verse 1:

F               C7
Rosy cheeks and turn'd up nose
    F           D7
and curly hair
G7         C7            F   CdimC7
I'm raving 'bout my baby now

F             C7               F            Cdim
Pretty little dimples here and dimples there
      C       G7        C
Don't want to live with-out her
  C       G7       C
I love hergoodness knows

          G7     C
I wrote a song a-bout her
    G7                C   CdimC7
And here's the way it goes

Chorus 1:

F        EF
Baby Face
               Ddim
You've got the cutest little
C7  B7C7
Bab-y Face

                     B7
There's not an-other one could
C7
take your place
F  EEb D
Ba-by Face

G7      Dm7      G7
My poor heart is jumpin' ,
C7
You sure have
C9      C7
started some-thin'

F         EF
Baby Face,
I'm up in  heaven when I'm
A7              Dm   F7
in your fond em-brace

         Bb     Edim
I didn't need a shove,
              F    EEb D
'Cause I just fell in love
          G7     C7   F   DdimC7
With your pretty Baby Face

Verse 2:

F               C7          F        D7
When you were a baby not so long ago,
G7            C7              F    CdimC7
You must have been the cutest thing

F             C7            F         Cdim
I can picture you at ev'-ry baby show,
     C       G7    C
Just winnin' ev'ry ribbon
               G7   C
With your sweetbaby ways

           G7      C
Say honest,I ain't fib-bin'
             G7     C  CdimC7
You'd win 'emall to-day

Chorus 2:

F         EF
Baby Face,
           Ddim
He used to always call her
C7 B7 C7
Ba-by Face

He dolled her up in pretty
   B7 C7
ba-by lace
F  EEb D
Ba-by Face

G7    Dm7  G7
Never even tarried
C7        C9        C7
But after they were married

F         EF
Baby Face
Is asking alimony
A7          Dm  F7
It's a funnycase

               Bb      Edim
For  since she got the ring
             F  EEb D
He called herev-ry-thing
      G7        C7   F   DdimC7
Ev'ry thing but Baby Face

Chorus 3:

F        EF
Baby Face
            Ddim
She had the cutest little
C7 B7 C7
Ba-by Face

                     B7
She'd lead the movie stars
  C7
A mer-ry chase
F  EEb D
Ba-by Face

G7      Dm7   G7
Swanson isn’t in it
C7            C9        C7
she should be with Mack Sennett

F        EF
Baby Face
At any baby show
      A7                Dm   F7
She'd surely take first place

           Bb       Edim
But at the break of dawn
             F    EEb D
With all the make up gone, Oh Baby!
G7     C7   F
What a Baby Face

EEbD

G7     C7   F   Bbm6F6
What a Baby Face


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