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.
#1.
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Well, they took some honey from a tree,
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Dressed it up and they called it me.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now.
#2.
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I woke up last night, half past four,
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fifteen women knockin' at my door.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now.
#3.
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Went out last night, didn't stay late,
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before I'm home I had nineteen dates.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now.
#4.
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Me and my gal sittin' in the shade,
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talkin' 'bout the money that she has made.
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And everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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everybody's tryin' to be my baby.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now.
#5.
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Well, they took some honey from a tree,
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Dressed it up and they called it me.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby,
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby.
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Everybody's tryin' to be my baby, now.(Verse x2)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.