E _ _ _
A _
E _
A _
C#m _
B _ .
_
E _ _ _ _ _ My
A brother said that I
B was rotten to
E the core.
_
A _
E _ I was
A the youngest child,
F#m so I got by
B with more.
I
E _ guess she
A was tired by
B the time I
E came along.
_ _ _ She'd laugh
A until she cried,
E _
F#m I could do
B no wrong.
_
F#m She would always save
B me, because I
E was her baby.
I _
G#m _
C#m worked a factory in Ohio,
A I shrimpled in the bio.
E I drove a truck in
B Birmingham, _ turned 21
C#m in Cincinnati.
A I called home to mom and daddy,
E I said your boy is
B now a man.
She
F#m said I don't care if you're eighty,
B _ you'll always
E be my baby.
_ _ _ _ _ _ She loved
A that photograph _
B of our whole
E family.
_ _ She'd _ _
A always point us out
F#m for all her friends
B to 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
E he's got.
B And
F#m that one's kinda crazy,
B _ but that one
E is my baby.
_ I
G#m got
C#m a call in Alabama, said come
A on home to Louisiana.
E And come as fast as you
B can fly, _
C C#m cause your mama really needs you.
A And says she's gotta see you,
E and she might not make it
B through the night.
_
F#m The whole way I drove eighty,
B _ so she could
E see 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 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.
I
F#m softly kissed that lady,
B _ _ and cried
G#m just like
E a baby.
_ _
A _
E _
A _ _
C#m _
B _ _ _
E _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .