Cry like a baby — Box Tops

#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# The Box Tops' second-biggest hit, this peaked at #2 in the spring of '68. One of my all-time favorites. -- AWR

"Cry Like A Baby"

Bm [4 bars; electric sitar enters bar 3]

Verse

A-when I think about the good love you gave me I cry like a baby [3: (cry like a baby)] Livin' without you is drivin' me crazy I cry like a baby [3: (cry like a baby)]

I know now that you're not a plaything A G [2/4] D Not a toy or a puppet on a string

Break #1:

/ / / / / / / /

bass:

v v v v v v v v

Verse

As I look back on a love so sweet now I cry like a baby Every road is a lonely street I cry like a baby

I know now that you're not a plaything Not a toy or a puppet on a string

Bridge

Today we passed on the street And you just walked on by My heart just fell to my feet And once again I began to cry

Solo

(electric sitar):

v v v v v v v v v v v v

v v v v v v v v

v v v v v v v v

Repeat First Four Lines Of Verse 1, W/Background Vocals

Break #2:

(bass; chords implied by horns):

G D [N.C.] v v v v v v v v

v v v v v v v v

(organ arr. for guitar, bars 3 and 4):

v v v v v v v v

Coda:

D Em/D D Em/D [continue] I know now that you're not a plaything I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now) As I look back on a love so sweet, now I cry like a baby (just like a little bitty baby now) Every road is a lonely street I cry like a baby (cry like a baby) My heart just fell to my feet, you know I Cry like a baby (cry like a baby) You left the water running, now I cry like a baby (cry like a baby) [fade]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers