Chords for The Baby

_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ My brother [A] said that [E] I was [B] rotten to [E] the core
_ _ I was the [A] youngest [E] child, _ [F#m] so I got by with [B] more
_ _ [E] I guess she [A] was tired by [E] _ [B] the time I came [E] along
_ _ _ She'd laugh [A] until she [E] cried, _ [F#m] I could do no [B] wrong
_ [F#m] She would always save me, _ because I [E] was her baby
I _ [D#] worked [C#m] a factory in Ohio, [A] I shrimp-boiled in the bio
[E] I drove a truck in [B] Birmingham, _ turned [C#m] 21 in Cincinnati
I [A] called home to mom and daddy, [E] said your boy is now [B] a man
She said [F#m] I don't care if you're eighty, _
[B] _ you'll always be [E] my baby _
_ _ _ _ She loved that photograph of [B] _ our whole [E] family
_ _ _ _ _ She'd [A] always point us out _ [F#m] for all her friends to [B] see
_ _ _ [E] _ That's Greg, [A] he's doing great, _ [B] he really loves his [E] job
And _ _ Ronnie [A] with his two kids, _ [F#m] how about that wife [B] he's got
_ And [F#m] that one's kind of crazy, [B] _ but that one [E] is my baby _
_ _ [G#m] I got [C#m] a call in Alabama, said come [A] on home to Louisiana
And [E] come as fast as you [B] can fly, cause [C#m] your mama really needs you
[A] And says she's gotta see you, [E] she might not make it [B] through the night
_ [F#m] The whole way I drove eighty, [B] _ so she could see [E] her baby _
_ _ _ [C#m] She looked like she was sleeping, [A] and my family had been weeping
[E] By the time that I got to [B] her side, _ [C#m] and I knew that she'd been taken
[A] And my heart, it was breaking, [E] I never got to [B] say goodbye
[B] I [F#m] softly kissed that lady, [B] _ _ and cried just like a [E]
baby
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _