I Want My Baby Back

Album: Songs Of Teen Tragedy (1965)
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  • I want my baby back
    Gotta have my baby back
    I miss her, oh, so much
    Can't live without her touch

    I don't hardly know where to begin.
    I remember we were cruising home
    from the Beatles concert.
    I'd had such a wonderful evening
    sitting there watching my baby screaming
    and tearing her hair out, and carrying on.
    She was so full of life.
    Then, well, we were about three miles from home
    when all of a sudden it started to rain.
    And I do mean rain.
    I couldn't hardly see nothing.
    Well, we kept driving for about another mile
    when all of a sudden I see this stalled car
    right smack in front of me.
    Well, I wasn't about to slam on the brakes
    'cause I didn't have none to start with.
    So I swerved to the left
    and what do I see,
    some mushhead on a motorcycle headin' right at us
    and I knew, at last,
    me and my baby were about to meet
    the leader of the pack.

    Well, when I come to, I looked around
    and there was the leader
    and there was the pack
    and over there was my baby
    and over there was my baby
    and way over there was my baby.

    I want my baby back
    Gotta have my baby back
    I miss her, oh, so much
    Can't live without her touch

    It's been many months now since that fateful night
    and you know something? I've tried.
    Believe me, I have tried
    but I just can't make it without my baby.
    So, I've decided I'm going to have her back
    one way or another.
    Oh, baby, I dig you so much.
    Hot dang! Pay dirt!

    I've got my baby back
    Now, I've got my baby back
    I love her, oh, so much
    Can't live without her touch
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Comments: 6

  • Fatgorgocat from SwedenJimmy Cross? Who' he? I remember this song performed by The Downliners Sect back in the 60's.
  • Allen from Newark,, CaThe song is not only a parody of a car wreck song, its a parody of two car wreck songs, the lyrics and music are much more in parody to J. Frank Wilsons song "The Last Kiss" in which a guy and his gal
    "were out on a date, in my dady's car, we hadn't driven very far ,, there in the road streight ahead a car was stalled , the engine was dead so I swerved to the right i'll never forget the sounds that night >>>>" etc. I think it was genius that he combined both of these tearjerkers into one parady
  • Paul from Sydney, AustraliaSo many songs in the sixties that are tragic. At least Ebony Eyes had an "answer song" by The Beverley Sisters called Flight 1203 where because of her cab being held up in heavy traffic she missed the flight so didn't die after all. I'm running a course starting in May for people over 50 on the music of the fifties and sixties. Will certainly be giving them a listen to and information on the tear jerkers of the sixties.
  • Ted from Phoenix, AzIt may be sick humor, but I still thoroughly enjoy this "Leader of the Pack," parody--infact, I like this one much better than the Detergents' "Leader of the Laundromat," which was
    out at roughly the same time. My favorite lines were (1) when the narrator says he couldn't use his brakes, because he didn't have any to start with (a car without brakes? Yikes!); and (2) after the crash when the narrator points out where he sees the leader, the leader's pack, and the three different places where his "baby" ended up (I guess he must have been driving a roadster).
  • Aimee from Warren, MiThis was one of my favorite songs as a kid. I had the 45 and wish I still did. Parody songs are the spice of life. Maybe if people took life and themselves less seriously, the world really would be a better place.
  • Landon from Winchester, OhHow can someone make a parody for a car wreck song? Seriously, Jimmy Cross is lame.
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