Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby — Carl Perkins
Chords and lyrics for Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby by Carl Perkins (key of E).
Verse 1
Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby:Carl Perkins.
Top of the charts in 1956. The Beatles did
this song again with Perkins in 1964.
(The original Sun Records recording was G C D.
On later recordings it was done in E.)
#1.
[E]Well, they took some honey from a tree,
Dressed it up and they [E7]called it me.
[A]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[E]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[B]Everybody's [B7]tryin' to be my baby, [E]now.
#2.
[E]I woke up last night, half past four,
fifteen women [E7]knockin' at my door.
[A]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[E]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[B]Everybody's [B7]tryin' to be my baby, [E]now.
#3.
[E]Went out last night, didn't stay late,
before I'm home I had [E7]nineteen dates.
[A]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby.
[E]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[B]Everybody's [B7]tryin' to be my baby, [E]now.
#4.
[E]Me and my gal sittin' in the shade,
talkin' 'bout the money that [E7]she has made.
And [A]everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[E]everybody's tryin' to be my baby.
[B]Everybody's [B7]tryin' to be my baby, [E]now.
#5.
[E]Well, they took some honey from a tree,
Dressed it up and they [E7]called it me.
[A]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
[E]Everybody's tryin' to be my baby.
[B]Everybody's [B7]tryin' to be my baby, [E]now.(Verse x2)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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